The efficiency of a steam power plant can be increased by bleeding off some of the steam that would normally enter the turbine and usingit to preheat the water entering the boiler. in this process, liquid water at 50oc and 1000 kpa is mixed with superheated steam at 200oc and 1000 kpa. if the plant operators want to produce a saturated liquid at 1000 kpa, what ratio of mass flow rates of water and superheated steam are required? [20]

A23 kg log of wood begins from rest, 300 m up a sluice (a water track used to transport logs, think of it as an inclined plane with negligible friction) inclined at 20° to the horizontal. after it reaches the flat waterway at the bottom it collides elastically with a 100 kg block of wood initially at rest near the base of the incline. (a) how long does it take the 23 kg log to travel down the incline? (b) what is the speed of the 23 kg log at the bottom of the incline? (c) what are the velocities of both blocks of wood after the collision? (d) what is the total kinetic energy before the collision? (e) what is the kinetic energy of the 23 kg log after the collision? (f) what is the kinetic energy of the 100 kg block of wood after the collision? (g) what is the total kinetic energy after the collision? (h) compare the total initial and total final kinetic energies. is this consistent with what you would expect for elastic collisions? explain!

Which is not a characteristic of a heat pump? a. it is used in air conditioners. b. it uses a refrigerant. c. it requires no work. d. it reverses the normal flow of thermal energy.

If 2 moles of co_2 at 2l and 500k are expanded reversibly to 20l, more work can be obtained from an adiabatic process than from an isothermal process. is the above statement true or false?