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Assume an ideal isentropic turbine and use the supplied table consistently. Its inlet specific entropy is . At the condenser pressure the outlet mixture has , where is the vapour mass fraction. Hence
The outlet is approximately vapour and liquid by mass. Its specific enthalpy is
The source's common unit label omits the kelvin denominator for entropy: must be interpreted in , while is in . A real irreversible turbine would increase entropy and require an efficiency correction; no such correction is supplied.

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