Assume you are working on an ideal gas-turbine cycle that hasthree stages of compression with intercooling and three stages ofexpansion with reheating at 100 kPa and 290 K. This system uses aregenerator as well. The pressure ratio across each stage of thecompressor and turbine is 3; the air temperature when entering theturbine is 1300 K; and the regenerator operates perfectly. Draw theT − s diagram of this system. Determine the mass flow rate of theair passing through the system, the rates of heat addition andrejection when this cycle produces 1000 hp and thermal efficiencyof the system. Assume isentropic operations for all the compressorand turbine stages and use constant specific heats at roomtemperature. Also assume negligible changes in kinetic andpotential energy
