Rankine Cycle - the basics...
Rankine cycle is a thermodynamic cycle used in commercial thermal power plants...
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| Main components of Rankine cycle: pump (1 - 2), boiler (2 - 3), turbine (3 - 4), condenser (4 - 1). Image from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Rankine_cycle_layout.png |
The working fluid is H2O (water / steam).
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| Image from textbook "Fundamentals of Thermodynamics" by Borgnakke and Sonntag (8th edition, Wiley). |
As shown above, high pressure can be above 90 bar, and low pressure can be around 0.05 bar
High temperature may be around 500 ⁰C, and low temperature may be a little more than ambient temperature (e.g. 45 ⁰C).
This is a large-scale power production cycle (net output of several megawatts).


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