A steam power plant is represented as a heat engine operating between two thermal reservoirs at 800 K and 300 K. The temperature of the steam in the boiler is 550 K and the temperature of the saturated water in the condenser is 330 K. The rates of heat transfer in the boiler and condenser are 4 MW and 2 MW, respectively. Please answer the following.
Required:
a. Represent the devices present in the heat engine and include their name along with the data given in the problem.
b. If this steam power plant were to operate as a reversible heat engine, with the boiler and condenser temperatures, what would be its thermal efficiency?
c. Use your result from part (b) to determine if the actual steam power plant can achieve such thermal efficiency. Justify your answer.
d. For the actual steam power plant is the Clausius inequality satisfied? Show you computation and discuss whether your result agrees or disagrees with your answer in part (c).
