4.3 Analyzing Control Volumes at Steady State 145
Assumptions:
1. Each of the two control volumes shown on the accompanying sketch is at steady-state.
2. There is no significant heat transfer between the overall condenser and its surroundings, and
3. Changes in the kinetic and potential energies of the flowing streams from inlet to exit can be ignored.
4. At states 2, 3, and 4, h h
f
(T) (see Eq. 3.14).
Analysis: The steam and the cooling water streams do not mix. Thus, the mass rate balances for each of the two streams re-
duce at steady state to give
(a) The ratio of the mass flow rate of the cooling water to the mass flow rate of the condensing steam, can be found
from the steady-state form of the energy rate balance applied to the overall condenser as follows:
The underlined terms drop out by assumptions 2 and 3. With these simplifications, together with the above mass flow rate
relations, the energy rate balance becomes simply
Solving, we get
The specific enthalpy h
1
can be determined using the given quality and data from Table A-3. From Table A-3 at 0.1 bar, h
f
191.83 kJ/kg and h
g
2584.7 kJ/kg, so
Using assumption 4, the specific enthalpy at 2 is given by (T
2
) 188.45 kJ/kg. Similarly, (T
3
) and (T
4
),
giving h
4
h
3
62.7 kJ/kg. Thus
(b) For a control volume enclosing the steam side of the condenser only, the steady-state form of energy rate balance is
The underlined terms drop out by assumptions 2 and 3. Combining this equation with the following expression for
the rate of energy transfer between the condensing steam and the cooling water results:
Dividing by the mass flow rate of the steam, and inserting values
where the minus sign signifies that energy is transferred from the condensing steam to the cooling water.
Alternatively, (h
4
h
3
) can be evaluated using the incompressible liquid model via Eq. 3.20b.
Depending on where the boundary of the control volume is located, two different formulations of the energy rate balance
are obtained. In part (a), both streams are included in the control volume. Energy transfer between them occurs internally
and not across the boundary of the control volume, so the term drops out of the energy rate balance. With the control
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