The temperature of feed water can be increased in following two ways in a regenerative Rankine cycle
i) by passing feed water around turbine casing in direction opposite to flow of steam
ii) 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

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