Consider an ideal Ericsson cycle with air as the working fluid executed in a steady-flow...

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Consider an ideal Ericsson cycle with air as the working fluid executed in a steady-flow system. Air is at a temperature of 270 degrees and a pressure of  120 kPa at the beginning of the isothermal compression process, during which 150 kJ/kg of heat is rejected. Heat transfer to air occurs at a temperature of 1200K. Determine

(a) the maximum pressure in the cycle

(b) the network output per unit mass of air

(c) the thermal efficiency of the cycle

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An Ericsson cycle involves an isothermal heataddition process and an isothermal heatrejection process the Ericsson cycle dier from the Carnot cycle in that the two isentropic processes in the Carnot cycle are replaced by two constantpressure regeneration processes The cycle    See Answer
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