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Steam Extraction for Process Efficiency

The document discusses extracting steam from a chemical process to provide energy needed to heat the process. Extracting some steam through a turbine can increase overall efficiency by using the energy elsewhere, while maintaining sufficient steam pressure to avoid lowering efficiency.

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Steam Extraction for Process Efficiency

The document discusses extracting steam from a chemical process to provide energy needed to heat the process. Extracting some steam through a turbine can increase overall efficiency by using the energy elsewhere, while maintaining sufficient steam pressure to avoid lowering efficiency.

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f)

By Extracting steam it’ll provide the required energy needed to heat the chemical process in it’s ideal
conditions that is considered to be energy that is effective. Since The energy will be withdrawn from
the process and would be used elsewhere, this will result to a decrease in Rankine cycle efficiency
and it therefore the classical efficiency would be unwanted. Therefore, Overall efficiency will
increase as Energy will be use somewhere else away from the process. This is implemented by
extracting exhaust steam through a turbine. Some of the steam can go through the steam turbine,
and some of it goes to the actual process. Steam exhaust in the turbine can be used as steam utility
which typically low to medium pressure. Steam pressure cannot be too low because otherwise it’ll
lower the overall efficiency.

A2

a)

 Red line- Hot composite curve


 Blue line- Cold composite curve
c)

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