Thermal

Simplified Rankine cycle

Calculates an ideal Rankine-cycle balance from manually entered enthalpies h1–h4.

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wt = h_{3} - h_{4}

wp = h_{2} - h_{1}

wnet = wt - wp

qin = h_{3} - h_{2}

qout = h_{4} - h_{1}

η = \frac{wnet}{qin}