Correlation between Thermodynamic Efficiency and Ecological Cyclicity for Thermodynamic Power Cycles
Figure 2
The process for calculating the cyclicity of the 6 component Rankine cycle from Figure 1.
(a) Labeled adjacency matrix for the ideal Rankine cycle with one open feed water heater – rows represent flow to a node, columns from a node. (b) Equation for the calculation of the eigenvalues for the adjacency matrix. (c) Eigenvalues. (d) Maximum real eigenvalue, or the cyclicity, of the cycle.