Question

A Carnot cycle operates between the temperatures limits of 400 K and 1600 K, and produces 3600 kW of net power. The rate of entropy change of the working fluid during the heat addition process is

Answer 1

The rate of entropy change:

The rate of entropy change of the working fluid during the heat addition process is 3 kW/K

What is the Carnot cycle?

• The Carnot Cycle is a thermodynamic cycle made up of reversible isothermal expansion, adiabatic expansion, isothermal compression, and adiabatic compression processes in succession.
• The ratio of the heat absorbed to the temperature at which the heat was absorbed determines the change in entropy.

The entropy of a system:

The rate of heat addition is expressed as,

Q = $\frac{WT_{H}}{T_{H}- T_{L}}$

The entropy of a system is a measure of how disorderly a system is getting. The rate of entropy generation during heat addition is,

$S_{gen} = \frac{Q}{T_{H}} = \frac{W}{T_{H} - T_{L}}$

Calculation:

Given:

$T_{L}$ = 400K

$T_{H}$ = 1600K

W = 3600 kW

Put all the values in the above equation, and we get,

$S_{gen} = \frac{W}{T_{H} - T_{L}}$ = $\frac{3600}{1600-400}$ = 3 kW/K

The rate of entropy change is 3 kW/K

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