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ashley

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Every second at Niagara Falls, some 5000 m3 of water falls a distance of 50 m. What is the increase in entropy per second due to the falling water? (Assume a 20C environment).

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In a nuclear power plant, the reactor produces 500C steam that is used to power the steam turbines which generate 1 500 MW of electrical power. The cooling tower eliminates the waste heat at 50C. If the efficiency of the plant were that of a Carnot engine, at what rate would waste heat be vented to the atmosphere?


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k.lashomb

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Reply #1 on: Jul 28, 2018
Answer to Question 1

8360 kJ/K

Answer to Question 2

1080 MW


ashley

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Reply 2 on: Jul 28, 2018
Excellent

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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