Question: Please help! How to calculate these? A combined cycle process powered by natural gas is used to generate electricity. Air enters the gas turbine compressor

Please help! How to calculate these? A combined cycle process powered by natural gas is used to generate electricity. Air enters the gas turbine compressor at 1 bar, 20C, and is compressed to 16 bar, 435C. The turbine inlet conditions are 16 bar and 1300C. Exhaust gases expand in the turbine, causing the pressure to drop to 1 bar. The exhaust gases pass after that through the heat recovery boiler (abbreviation in English HRSG) and finally exit at 110C in temperature. 15 kg/s of steam is fed to the steam cycle turbine at a temperature of 550C, and it expands to the condenser pressure of 8 kPa, so the steam mass fraction is 0.865. Steam cycle produces electricity of 20 MW (gross). The minimum temperature difference in the heat recovery boiler is Tmin =10C. Assume that Cp,air=1.005 kJ/(kgK) and k =1.4. The effects of natural gas and the pump can ignore. Specify: 1.1 schematic diagram and T-s diagram of the whole process (draft, no need to be exact); 1.2 compressor isentropic efficiency; 1.3 steam turbine inlet pressure; 1.4 air mass flow; 1.5 Brayton cycle turbine isentropic efficiency; 1.6 electrical efficiency of the combined power plant.

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