# Recent questions tagged turbomachinary

The compressor of a gas turbine plant, operating on an ideal intercooled Brayton cycle, accomplishes an overall compression ratio of $6$ in a two-stage compression process. Intercooling is used to cool the air coming out from the first stage to the inlet temperature ... gas are constant, the intercooling pressure for minimum compressor work is __________ $kPa$ (rounded off to $2$ decimal places).
As per common design practice, the three types of hydraulic turbines, in descending order of flow rate, are Kaplan, Francis, Pelton Pelton, Francis, Kaplan Francis, Kaplan, Pelton Pelton, Kaplan, Francis
The rotor of a turbojet engine of an aircraft has a mass $180 \: kg$ and polar moment of inertia $10 \: kg \cdot m^2$ about the rotor axis. The rotor rotates at a constant speed of $1100 \: rad/s$ in the clockwise direction when viewed from the front of the aircraft. The aircraft while ... and the nose goes down $162.9 \: N \cdot m$ and the nose goes up $162.9 \: N \cdot m$ and the nose goes down
A gas turbine with air as the working fluid has an isentropic efficiency of $0.70$ when operating at a pressure ratio of $3$. Now, the pressure ratio of the turbine is increased to $5$, while maintaining the same inlet conditions. Assume air as a perfect gas ... both the cases, the isentropic efficiency of the turbine at the pressure ratio of $5$ is ___________ (round off to two decimal places)
A calorically perfect gas (specific heat at constant pressure $1000 \: J/kg .K$) enters and leaves a gas turbine with the same velocity. The temperatures of the gas at turbine entry and exit are $1100 \: K$and $400 \: K$, respectively. The power produced is $4.6\: MW$ and heat ... the turbine casing. The mass flow rate of the gas (in $kg/s$) through the turbine is $6.14$ $7.00$ $7.50$ $8.00$
In the Rankine cycle for a steam power plant, the turbine entry and exit enthalpies are $2803 \: kJ/kg$ and $1800 \: kJ/kg$, respectively. The enthalpies of water at pump entry and exit are $121 \: kJ/kg$ and $124 \: kJ/kg$, respectively. The specific steam consumption (in $kg/kW.h$) of the cycle is _________.
The blade and fluid velocities for an axial turbine are as shown in the figure. The magnitude of absolute velocity at entry is $300$ $m/s$ at an angle of $65^\circ$ ... the downward direction. Given that the axial (horizontal) velocity is the same at entry and exit, the specific work (in $kJ/kg$) is__________