fossil fuels chapter 19
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Fossil Fuels
Chapter 19
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1. Natural Gas• What it is:
– Mixture of methane (50-90%), heavier hydrocarbons (ethane, propane, butane) and small amounts of H2S (highly toxic)
• Properties:– Highly flammable; transportation difficult. Done in pipelines– Cleanest burning fossil fuel
• Methane is dried, cleansed of H2S, pumped in low pressure lines nationally.
• Heavier gases are removed as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for use in rural areas.
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Natural Gas Distribution
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Hydraulic Fracturing
• How: – Pumping water & chemicals under high
pressure underground to force natural gas/petroleum to surface
• Problems: – Possible groundwater contamination
– CH4 released
– Release of Fracking Chemicals
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HydroFrac.png
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How Long Will Natural Gas Last?
• At current consumption rate, factoring in undiscovered reserves, approximately 125 years.
• Including unconventional sources, 200-325 years
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2. Coal• What is it:
– Solid fuel formed from plant matter during Carboniferous period, 360-285 million years ago.
• C content increases, water content decreases over time
• Ranked according to energy content
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TypeEnergy Content (megajoules/kg)
Location in US
1. Anthracite 30-34 PA
2. Bituminous 23-34 Appalachia, Midwest, West
3. Subbituminous 16-23 West
4. Lignite 13-16 Gulf Coast, No. Great Plains
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• Half is acquired through Strip-Mining (Surface Mining)• Acid Mine Drainage:
• rainfall reacts with exposed rock, reacts with sulfides, produces sulfuric acid.
• Processed to remove much sulfur before burning
• Uses of Coal:– converted into synthetic oil or gas. – Mostly used by power plants to create electricity (60%
of electricity produced). – Transported by train and coal slurry pipelines (uses
more water).
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Open Pit Mining: digging at the surface to extract ore
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_mining#Strip_mining
Coal Surface Mining in Wyoming
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Pollution & Coal• Burning releases mercury into env.• Takes a great deal of water; expensive, heavy
environmental impact • Production of NOx and SOx• Particulate Ash
• Treatment--Scrubbing – calcium carbonate-rich materials are injected into the gases
produced from burning coal, producing hydrated calcium sulfite as sludge.
– Disposal issues.
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How Long Will Coal Last?
• At current consumption, 225 years. If usage rises 2%/yr, 65 years.
• Believed to be unidentified reserves projected to last 900 years.
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3. OIL!• Petroleum (crude oil):
– thick liquid consisting of hundreds of combustible hydrocarbons.
• Impurities
– sulfur, oxygen, nitrogen & other impurities.
• Formation – decomposition of organic matter (mostly plant) – extreme pressures & temperatures – millions of years
• Usually dispersed throughout pores in rocks.
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Oil Recover: 3 Stage Process• Primary:
– Drilling a well, then remove oil that flows into the well.
• Secondary: – Pumping water under high pressure into a nearby well,
forcing oil out, pump up to surface,– remove water from oil and reuse the water for recovery.
• Tertiary: – Use of superheated steam, CO2 or detergent to dissolve oil,
then removed from that. – Large amounts of energy needed (~1/3 barrel for every barrel
produced)
• Production clip
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Fractional Distillation
• Separating the components that make up crude oil.
• Uses boiling points of the various fractions
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64% in the Middle East;
26% in Saudi Arabia alone
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Oil Facts
• US uses 30% of crude oil extracted; 68% for transportation
• $130.00 per barrel on 6/6/08• $48.92 per barrel 4/22/09• $91.58 per barrel 4/25/13 • 1 barrel petroleum = 42 gallons
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Just How Much Is There?• Resource:
– A concentration of material that is economically feasible to extract, now or in the future.
• Reserve: – Portion of the resource
that can be extracted now, economically & legally.
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Reserves…
• Production of reserves expected to peak between 2010 and 2030. Peaked in US in 1975.
• Undiscovered supplies may extend it 20-40 years.
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Other Sources of Oil
• Oil Shale: fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen. – Distilled to form shale oil. – Potentially recoverable from CO, UT, WY. – Generally very low grade, takes much energy.
• Tar sand: mixture of clay, sand, water & bitumen (thick, high sulfur oil). – Most lie below earth’s surface; those close can be mined. – Largest deposits in Canada, UT, Venezuela, Colombia, Russia.
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Hubbert’s Prediction for Peak Oil Production
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