Basics of power plant engineering:different cycles

power plant

1. Main Steam Cycle
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2. Carnot Vapour Cycles
Vapour Power Cycles
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3. Difficulties in Carnot Vapour Cycles
(a) (b) (c)
Figure1.2TsDiagramofCarnotcycleforsameefficiency.

4. Rankine cycle