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This document discusses a nuclear power station that uses carbon dioxide gas to transfer heat from the reactor to a boiler to generate steam. It then asks to calculate the rate of heat used by a district heating scheme given the turbine output is 170 MW, and to calculate the mass flow rate of carbon dioxide cooled from 620C to 310C in the boiler.

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SOLUTIONS C106 THERMODYNAMIC, FLUID AND PROCESS ENGINEERING

Year 2004

Q4. In a nuclear power station, heat from the nuclear reactor is transferred by circulating carbon
dioxide gas through the reactor and then to the boiler where steam is generated. The steam is used
in a Rankine Cycle with superheat where it expands isentropically from 100 bar pressure and 600
o
C
to 7 bar. The exhaust steam is condensed by using it in a district heating scheme and returns as
saturated water at 7 bar and is returned to the boiler.

(a) The power output of the turbine is 170 MW. Calculate the rate at which heat is used by the
district heating scheme. Draw a block diagram of the system.

(b) The carbon dioxide is cooled from 620oCto 310oC in the boiler. Calculate the mass flow rate of
carbon dioxide if the mean specific heat capacity c
p
is 1.143 kJ/kg K. Neglect the feed pump work.

h
2
= 3624 kJ/kg
s
2
= 6.85 kJ/kg K
s
3
= 6.85 = 1.992 + x(4.717) hence x>1 so it is still
superheated at (3)
Interpolation from the tables is required to find h
3
.
7 bar
Temp 165 200
s 6.709 6.85 6.888
h 2764 h
3
2846
= 165 + 35 (6.85 6.709)/(6.88 6.709)
= 165 + 28.86

h
3
= 2764 + (28.86/35)( 2846 - 2764 ) = 2832 kJ/kg

TURBINE
P = 170 000 kW = m(3624 2832)
m = 214.54 kg/s

Heat To District Heating h
4
= 697 kJ/kg

= m(h
3
h
2
) = 214.54(2832 - 697) = 458047 kW or 458 MW

BOILER h
1
= h4

= m(h
2
h
1
) = 214.54(3624 - 697) = 627960 kW
If the heat lost by the carbon Dioxide is the same then 627960 = m
g
c
p
(T)

627960 = 1.143 m
g
(620 -310) m
g
= 1772 kg/s

These answers do not quite agree with the examiners but are close.
D. J. Dunn www.freestudy.co.uk 1

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