Question: Dry methane is supplied by a compressor and precooling system to the heat exchanger of a Linde liquid-methane system at 150 bar and 300 K.

Dry methane is supplied by a compressor and precooling system to the heat exchanger of a Linde liquid-methane system at 150 bar and 300 K. The low-pressure methane (stream 15) leaves the Exchanger at 138.5 °C higher than the ingoing low-pressure methane (stream 10). The vapor-liquid separator operates at 1 bar, and the product is saturated liquid at this pressure. Please use the p-V curve below and (roughly) indicate the conditions of stream 8 on this graph on the T1 line. Use calculations to explain your result. The source of data for methane is below. Tsatmethane = 111.5 K; the specific enthalpy of flow 9 is h9 = 285.4 kJ/kg (saturated liquid). You can assume that there is no heat loss in the Exchanger and in the system in general.


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