PyRankine

The PyRankine is the general Rankine Cycle simulator provided in the different data structures

We wish that PyRankine may be a helpful vehicle for you to understand Computational Thinking and improve programming skills.

The Simulator : List,Dict and Function

• CSV Textual Model of the Rankine Cycle Flowsheet

The Simulator : Object-oriented programming

• JSON Textual Model of Rankine Cycles Flowsheet

  The UML Class Diagram: Association

  

Dependencies：SEUIF97

IAPWS-IF97 high-speed shared library

• https://github.com/PySEE/SEUIF97

Install with pip

python -m pip install seuif97

The Example Rankine Cycles

The Rankine Cycles used in these general simulators are Example 8.1, 8.2 and 8,5 of Michael J. Moran. Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics(7th Edition). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011

Chapter 8 : Vapour Power Systems

The Jupyter Notebooks of Example Rankine Cycles

• EXAMPLE 8.1: The Ideal Rankine Cycle, P438

• EXAMPLE 8.2: Analyzing a Rankine Cycle with Irreversibilities, P444

• EXAMPLE 8.3: Evaluating Performance of an Ideal Reheat Cycle, P449-451

• EXAMPLE 8.4: Evaluating Performance of a Reheat Cycle with Turbine Irreversibility, P451

• EXAMPLE 8.5: The Regenerative Cycle with Open Feedwater Heater, P456

• EXAMPLE 8.6: The Reheat–Regenerative Cycle with Two Feedwater Heaters, P460-463

Start the notebooks

>start.bat

Schematic of Example Rankine Cycles

Reference

• Computational thinking

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  • Modelica

    • OpenModelica: An open-source Modelica-based modeling and simulation environment

      • https://github.com/OpenModelica

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  • MATLAB：Simscape https://cn.mathworks.com/products/simscape.html

• ThermoCycle Simulator

  • Maarten Winter: pyDNA https://github.com/mwoc/pydna

  • ORC Modeling Kit: https://github.com/orcmkit/ORCmKit

  • ACHP: https://github.com/TSTK/ACHP

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• Electronic circuit simulator

  • Jan M. Rabaey: SPICE http://bwrcs.eecs.berkeley.edu/Classes/IcBook/SPICE/

    • SPICE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE

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