Determine the Turbine output (kW)

A simple Rankine-cycle steam power plant operates with a steam flow rate of 500,000 lbm /hr. Steam enters the turbine at 500 psia and 1000 F. The turbine exhaust (condenser inlet) conditions are 1.0 psia with a steam quality of 0.90. Determine the following:

A. Turbine output (kW)

B. Condenser heat rejection rate (Btu/hr)

C. Turbine isentropic efficiency (%)

D. Each term in the second-law entropy balance for the condensing process

E. Approximate pump work (kW)

F. Thermal efficiency of the plant (%)

G. Ideal thermal efficiency of the plant (%)

How much uranium-235 would be consumed in a fission bomb with a 20-kt explosive yield?

1. How much uranium-235 would be consumed in a fission bomb with a 20-kt explosive yield? 2. A neutron collides elastically head-on with a stationary deuteron in a reactor moderated….

Compare your answer with the 3.6×10⁶ tons of coal needed to fuel a comparable coal-burning power plant

A laser-fusion fuel pellet has mass 5.0 mg and consists of equal parts (by mass) of deuterium and tritium. (a) If half the deuterons and an equal number of tritons….

explore this indirect approach to particle detection by plotting the data in the table below.

1. Your roommate is writing a science-fiction novel set very far in the future, 70 Gy after the Big Bang. One of the characters is a cosmologist, and your roommate….