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Peter Jones
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- Homework Statement
- A combination of steam mercury turbines, includes two stages. The first stage runs on saturated mercury vapour at 876°F and emits heat to heat a boiler at 460°F. The vapour in this boiler is used to run a second stage of the turbine, and emits heat to a steam condenser chamber which is at 100°F. Find the maximum efficiency of this combination
- Relevant Equations
- Carnot efficiency H=1-T2/T1
I think it reaches its maximum efficiency when it is two continuous Carnot process. Its efficiency then will be H= 1-(W1+W2)/(Q1+Q2), with W1/Q1>=T2/T1 and W2/Q2>=T3/T2 therefore
H<= 1- (Q1.T2/T1+Q2.T3/T2)/(Q1+Q2), that is as far as i can go, have not got a result yet
H<= 1- (Q1.T2/T1+Q2.T3/T2)/(Q1+Q2), that is as far as i can go, have not got a result yet