You are a plant engineer, working at a manufacturing facility with a dedicated powerhouse. Your

boss is under stress from management to increase the efficiency of electricity generation at your

plant $($simple Rankine cycle$)$ by $1$ percentage point. Your boss told you that the facility does not

have cash on hand to make any investment in regenerators, etc., but she heard that there are

three straightforward $($more or less$)$ operational changes that can be made to the T & P operating

points of your system that will increase efficiency. She has asked you to prepare a short summary

that she can use for decision making purposes, i$.$e$.,$ she wants you to prove that these changes will

benefit the operation of the facility. The report should include the following: