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A Rankine-cycle bench for a thesis

Role

Engineer

Timeline

2025 — Present

Team

With my brother

Skills

React

Python

FastAPI

Three.js

Overview

He needed a Rankine cycle he could argue with.

I coded this so my little brother could finish his energy-engineering thesis — not a textbook diagram that pretends steam is an ideal gas.

Boiler, turbine, condenser, pump. Heat in, work out, waste heat dumped. Efficiency is a slogan until you watch net work move when you change steam temperature.

T-s, h-s, and the exergy the textbook leaves out.

Where it goes

Thesis first. Plant later.

IAPWS-IF97 properties and exergy are already on the bench. The PID chases a load instead of a homework answer.

Set a load. Watch the loop close.