Question
A steam-electric power plant delivers 900 MW of electric power. The surplus heat is exhausted into a river with a flow of 2.91×105 kg/s, causing a change in temperature of 1.07 oC.
A. What is the efficiency of the power plant?
B. What is the rate of the thermal source?
MY WORK:
I know that 900 MW is 9x10^8 W. I just am having trouble finding an equation that relates at all to this question... I found a question that was similar but was looking for the temperature change and not the efficiency and tried to re-word their equation but it did not work:
power in watts / efficiency / 4.18 cal/s / flow = change in temp
I got 69.1 as the percent and it did not work, also tried 30.9 and it did not work.
A. What is the efficiency of the power plant?
B. What is the rate of the thermal source?
MY WORK:
I know that 900 MW is 9x10^8 W. I just am having trouble finding an equation that relates at all to this question... I found a question that was similar but was looking for the temperature change and not the efficiency and tried to re-word their equation but it did not work:
power in watts / efficiency / 4.18 cal/s / flow = change in temp
I got 69.1 as the percent and it did not work, also tried 30.9 and it did not work.
Answers
P(lost) = mcΔT/t
From that you can determine efficiency.
From that you can determine efficiency.
How? I don't have mass or time, and I supposed to use 2.91×10^5 kg/s? The problem also does not mention a liquid or anything so how do I know what c to use??
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