[3] (25%) Superheated steam at 9 MPa and 480oC leaves the steam generator of a vapor power plant. Heat transfer and frictional effects in the line connecting the steam generator and the turbine reduce the pressure and temperature at the turbine inlet to 8.6 MPa and 440oC, respectively. The pressure at the exit of the turbine is 10 kPa, and the turbine operates adiabatically. Liquid leaves the condenser at 8 kPa, 35 oC. The pressure is increased to 9.6 MPa across the pump. The turbine and pump isentropic efficiencies are 85%. The mass flow rate of steam is 80 kg/s. Determine (a) the net power output, in kW. (b) the thermal efficiency (c) the rate of heat transfer from the line connecting the steam generator and the turbine, in kW. (d) the mass flow rate of the condenser cooling water, in kg/s, if the cooling water enters at 15oC and exits at 35oC with negligible pressure change.

The steam requirements of a manufacturing facility are being met by a boiler whose rated heat input is 5.5 x 3^106 Btu/h. The combustion efficiency of the boiler is measured to be 0.7 by a hand-held flue gas analyzer. After tuning up the boiler, the combustion efficiency rises to 0.8. The boiler operates 4200 hours a year intermittently. Taking the unit cost of energy to be $4.35/10^6 Btu, determine the annual energy and cost savings as a result of tuning up the boiler.

Build a 32-bit accumulator circuit. The circuit features a control signal inc and enable input en. If en is 1 and inc is 1, the circuit increments the stored value by an amount specified by an input A[31:0] on the next clock cycle. If en is 1 and inc is 0 the circuit decrements the stored value by the amount specified in the input A on the next clock cycle. If en is 0, the circuit simply stores its current value without modification. The circuit has the following interface:______.
Input clock governs the state transitions in the circuit upon each rising edge.
Input clear is used as a synchronous reset for the stored value.
Input inc controls whether the value stored is to be incremented or decremented.
Input en is a control signal that activates the values increment/decrement
Input A determines how much to increment or decrement by
Output value is a 32-bit signal that can be used to read the stored value at any time.
* Note: Use any combination of combinational or sequential logic. It may be helpful to look into D Flip Flops and Registers.

A frequenter of a pub had observed that the new barman poured in average 0.47 liters of beer into the glass with a standard deviation equal to 0.09 liters instead of a half a liter with the same standard deviation. The frequenter had used a random sample of 47 glasses of beer in his experiment. Consider the one-sided hypothesis test for volume of beer in a glass: H0: u=0.5 against H1: u<0.5. Determine the P-value of this test.
Round your answer to four decimal places (e.g. 98.7654).

You have available three blocks of different material, at various temperatures. They are, respectively, a 2 kg block of iron at 600 K, a 3 kg block of copper at 800 K and a 10 kg block of granite at 300 K. The heat capacities for the three materials are 0.460 (iron), 0.385 (copper), and 0.790 (granite), in kj/(kg*K), all independent of temperature. For solids, the heat capacities at constant pressure and constant volume can be assumed to be equal, Cp=Cv. what is the minimum temperature that could be obtained in any one of the block? what is the maximum temperature that could be obtained? no heat or work interactions with the enviroment are allowed.