CASE STUDY: THERMODYNAMIC STEAM CYCLE SIMULATION USING SIMIO - EXTENDED ABSTRACT

摘要

For over a century and a half, man has used water in industrial applications including mining, power generation, chemical processing, etc. The energy transfer properties of water have been understood and utilized since the early 1800s when Scottish civil engineer William John Macquorn Rankine became fascinated with the thermodynamics. His work culminated in the development of the steam cycle bearing his name: the Rankine cycle. Figure 1 shows a typical (academic) representation of a Rankine steam cycle, which in its simplest form incorporates processes of heat in (boiler), heat out (condenser), work in (pump), and work out (turbine). For this model, throttling (valve) is added for completeness.