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    SPLM1B2 SUMMER TEST 3 23 OCT 2020 Final

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    1. The document provides information about a steam plant test for Bachelor of Engineering Technology students, including details about the test such as date, duration, assessor, and instructions. 2. The test contains 3 questions related to steam plant processes and cycles. Question 1 involves evaluating efficiencies and heat flows for a Rankine cycle power station. Question 2 discusses methods to improve Rankine cycle efficiency and applies them to a specific power plant. Question 3 calculates work, heat transfer, and entropy change for a steam expansion process in an engine. 3. Students are required to show working, make assumptions clear, and submit scanned answer scripts by the specified deadline. The test assesses independent learning skills. Academic dishonesty

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    1. The document provides information about a steam plant test for Bachelor of Engineering Technology students, including details about the test such as date, duration, assessor, and instructions. 2. The test contains 3 questions related to steam plant processes and cycles. Question 1 involves evaluating efficiencies and heat flows for a Rankine cycle power station. Question 2 discusses methods to improve Rankine cycle efficiency and applies them to a specific power plant. Question 3 calculates work, heat transfer, and entropy change for a steam expansion process in an engine. 3. Students are required to show working, make assumptions clear, and submit scanned answer scripts by the specified deadline. The test assesses independent learning skills. Academic dishonesty

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    1. The document provides information about a steam plant test for Bachelor of Engineering Technology students, including details about the test such as date, duration, assessor, and instructions. 2. The test contains 3 questions related to steam plant processes and cycles. Question 1 involves evaluating efficiencies and heat flows for a Rankine cycle power station. Question 2 discusses methods to improve Rankine cycle efficiency and applies them to a specific power plant. Question 3 calculates work, heat transfer, and entropy change for a steam expansion process in an engine. 3. Students are required to show working, make assumptions clear, and submit scanned answer scripts by the specified deadline. The test assesses independent learning skills. Academic dishonesty

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    SPLM1B2 SUMMER TEST 3 23 OCT 2020 Final

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    1. The document provides information about a steam plant test for Bachelor of Engineering Technology students, including details about the test such as date, duration, assessor, and instructions. 2. The test contains 3 questions related to steam plant processes and cycles. Question 1 involves evaluating efficiencies and heat flows for a Rankine cycle power station. Question 2 discusses methods to improve Rankine cycle efficiency and applies them to a specific power plant. Question 3 calculates work, heat transfer, and entropy change for a steam expansion process in an engine. 3. Students are required to show working, make assumptions clear, and submit scanned answer scripts by the specified deadline. The test assesses independent learning skills. Academic dishonesty

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    PROGRAM : BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY (BENGTECH)

    ENGINEERING : MECHANICAL

    SUBJECT : STEAM PLANT

    CODE : SPLM1B2 TEST 3

    DATE : 23rd OCT 2020

    DURATION : 08:00 - 10:25 (2 hours 20 min)

    TOTAL MARKS : 100%


    :
    ASSESSOR : ASSESSOR: Mr. E. BAKAYA-KYAHURWA

    MODERATOR : : Dr. S. GQIBANI

    NUMBER OF PAGES : PAGES: 1 excluding the cover page.

    INSTRUCTIONS : ONLY ONE POCKET CALCULATOR PER CANDIDATE


    MAY BE USED.
    1. This paper contains 3 questions
    2. Number all answers according to the numbering in question paper.
    3. This is an online test, administered via blackboard and whatsapp while students are seated
    in their locations;
    4. PLEASE ANSWER ALL the QUESTIONS
    5. Draw proper sketches where required with all relevant information
    6. Students are required to write using their own answering scripts bearing a cover page; on
    completion or when time is up, upload the script on the TEST 3 link provided on Ulink under
    assignments.
    The test ends at 10:20 and thereafter you are allowed 15 minutes to scan and upload.

    REQUIREMENTS: Calculator, steam tables, Mollier diagram.

    Graduate Attribute:
    This assessment is a build up to Graduate Attribute 9;Independent Learning.

    Dishonesty:
    If you are caught for any type of cheating, whether it is plagiarism, unauthorized collaboration,
    cheating in a test or exam, faking your results, or some other academic misconduct, you will
    face such penalties as disciplinary hearing leading to suspension and or expulsion from the
    University.

    2/…
    If required take the specific heat of steam between 0.01 bar and 1 bar as Cps = 2.1 kJ/kgK,
    Cp water = 4.187 kJ/kgK, Cp air = 1.005 kJ/kgK

    QUESTION 1

    Majuba power station is reported to be operating optimally with three closed feed water
    heaters. Steam enters the turbine at 13.5 MPa and 580C and leaves at 6 kPa. The
    isentropic efficiency of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd stage of the turbine is 85% and feed water
    flows through the pump isentropically. Steam leaves the condenser as a saturated
    liquid. If the moisture content of the steam at exit of the turbine is not to exceed 5%
    Evaluate approximate values of isentropic efficiency of the 4th stage of the turbine, the
    mass of steam used for feed heating in each feed heater and the thermal efficiency of
    the plant. State any assumptions made.
    (39)
    Demonstrate your understanding of the effect of irreversibilities on the efficiency of a
    Rankine cycle.
    (10)
    [49]
    QUESTION 2
    It is a well known fact that the basic Rankine cycle has a low thermal efficiency.
    Demonstrate 3 ways you would employ to improve the efficiency of a Rankine cycle.
    Elaborate on how likely the efficiency would be increased by these methods despite
    the fact that they bring about undesirable effects.
    (9)
    Your internet search on Lethabo power station reveals that the design consists
    essentially of a large tubular-walled furnace, a steam drum, an economiser, a
    superheater and a re-heater. You further gather that Lethabo power plant has a
    maximum continuous rating of the boiler as 510 kg/s of steam generating a pressure
    of 17 MPa and 550 °C. The steam is reheated to the initial temperature entering the
    HP turbine before expanding in the LP turbine. The average temperature of steam in
    the condenser is 39C. All turbine stages have isentropic efficiencies of 85 percent
    and all pumps have isentropic efficiencies of 60 percent. Arrange the equipment in the
    plant for optimum performance and estimate the thermal efficiency and power
    generated. State any assumptions made.
    (22)
    [31]
    QUESTION 3

    Steam at a pressure of 17 bar (1.7 MPa) and 0.85 dry is supplied to a steam engine
    and is throttled to the engine pressure of 10 bar as it passes through the inlet valves.
    In the engine it does work while expanding according to the law pv = constant until it
    exits the engine at a pressure of 0.7 bar. Evaluate the final condition of steam, work
    done during the expansion process and the interchange of heat between the steam
    and the cylinder walls stating its direction. Take Cp of superheated steam as
    2.1 kJ/kg K. Also estimate the change in entropy for the process during which the
    steam does work in the engine.
    (20)
    [20]

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