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Discharge temperature for N2 vaporizer 4

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Hi all,

I'm a fresh mechanical engineer with no others in my company, so I don't really have anyone to discuss stuff with. I don't have much experience with thermodynamics, so I would really appreciate all the help I can get. I have to provide the minimum discharge temperature when at the highest rate and lowest pressure going through vaporizer. The vaporized medium will be Nitrogen. The pump specifications are as follows:

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Any ideas how to approach this?
 
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In this case I looked up the specific conditions in Coolprop and did:

Q = m dH

180K SCFH of LIN = 5915 kg/hr
inlet spec enthalpy = -65.3 kJ/kg
outlet spec enthalpy = 272.3 kJ/kg

which gives ~ 550 kW.

In reality the inlet temperature will be dependent on the tank pressure, how recently it was filled etc. Exactly at -196 degC / 700 barG we'd be above melting pressure according to Refprop, but we are in that region for duty.
 
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