Assignment:
Consider a Rankine cycle with reheat. Compressed water enters the boiler at 21 bars and is heated to 500C. Due to frictional effects there is a pressure loss of 1 bar in the boiler. At the exit of the boiler 40% of the steam produced is extracted for an external chemical process. The exhaust pressure of the first turbine is 5.0 bars. The steam is then reheated to 440C. The condenser operates at one bar. Make-up is added at the condenser. Determine:
(a) Thermal efficiency of the cycle
(b) Second law effectiveness