The temperature of feed water can be increased in following two ways in a regenerative Rankine cyclei) by passing feed water around turbine casing in direction opposite to flow of steamii) by bleeding certain portion of steam at the end of h.p expansion & mixing with condensate to make feed water at the temperature of boiler

• A. i) is preferred over ii) for higher efficiency
• B. ii) is preferred over i) for reduced moisture content of steam in l.p side
• C. only i) is implemented in actual practice
• D. by preferring ii) overi) significant gain in efficiency results