Reheat cycle

Reheat improves the cycle efficiency higher boiler pressure and to avoid low quality of steam at turbine exhaust The cycle superheats and reheats the vapor steam generated in boiler is supplied to high pressure steam turbine at state 2 and is expanded up to state 3 steam is sent to boiler for being reheated so that its temperature gets increased temperature after reheating may be equal to temperature at inlet of high pressure steam turbine

 after reheating is supplied to subsequent turbine at state 4, to low pressure steam turbine Steam is now expanded up to the exhaust pressure say state 5 Expanded steam is subsequently sent to condenser and condensate at state 6 is pumped back to the boiler employing feed pump at state 1 two stage expansion, one at beginning, high pressure occurs and other at low pressure with reheating in between. The principal advantage of reheat is to increase the quality of steam at turbine exhaust.

 Secondary advantage of reheating is marginal improvement in thermal efficiency In modern steam boilers reheating is essentially employed it is disadvantageous from economy of plant perspective as the cost of plant increases due to arrangement for reheating and increased condensation requirements due to increased dryness after expansion.

Wturbine=(h2 h3) + (h4 h5) Wpump= (h1- h6) Qadd=(h2-h1)+(h4-h3) Wnet= (h2 h3) + (h4 h5)-(h6-h1) reheat=Wturbine-Wpump/Qadd