3. Consider a 500 MW steam power plant that operates on a simple ideal Rankine cycle. Steam

enters the turbine at 10 MPa and 550 °C and is cooled in the condenser to 45 °C. You may

assume the compressor work on the liquid phase is negligible. Find the thermal efficiency of

the cycle and the mass flow rate of the steam. What would the efficiency be if you modeled it

as a Carnot cycle instead? Draw a diagram of each thermodynamic cycle and label heat/work

inputs and outputs.