A company wishes to become energy independent and decides to invest in a major project to build and develop a process to produce 3.5 MW of electricity to cover all their electrical requirements. Your task is to give the company a preliminary proposal, to guide them on what type of technology to use. In this course, you have studied thermodynamic cycles that serve to convert energy from one form to another to achieve a particular purpose, and you have seen that the Carnot cycle is a theoretical and idealized cycle that gives maximum efficiency. Consider two cycles that the company could use to achieve their objective. Thermodynamic processes such as the Rankine, Otto, and Stirling cycles (amongst many others) can be considered. You would have to study the systems, determine the appropriate operating conditions, and show the cycles plotted on the relevant thermodynamic diagrams (T-S or P-H). In order to evaluate each option, you would need to analyse the technological (equipment) requirements, cycle efficiencies, work output, heating and cooling requirements etc. Compare your proposed engines' efficiencies to the corresponding Carnot efficiency.