Global warming’s drastic effect were attributed to the rapid accumulation of “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere. Naming carbon dioxide as its major contributor, is formed when fossil fuels are combusted in different power plants (e.g. fuel powered, namely by coal, oil, or natural gas). Some of the potential way to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that is added to atmosphere is to compress the gas in underground formations. We can consider this with a 1000-MW coal-fired power plant that produces an amount of 6.0 × 10^6tons of CO2 per year. (a) In an ideal gas – or perfect gas behavior, 1.00 atm, 27°C, calculate the volume of the carbon dioxide produced by the power plant mentioned. (b) What volume can we obtain if CO2 (liquid form) stored in underground has an equation of state as 10 °C, 120 atm, and density of 1.2 g/cm^3?
Global warming’s drastic effect were attributed to the rapid accumulation of “greenhouse gases”
in the atmosphere. Naming carbon dioxide as its major contributor, is formed when fossil fuels are
combusted in different power plants (e.g. fuel powered, namely by coal, oil, or natural gas). Some of the
potential way to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that is added to atmosphere is to compress the gas
in underground formations. We can consider this with a 1000-MW coal-fired power plant that produces an amount of 6.0 × 10^6tons of CO2 per year.
(a) In an ideal gas – or perfect gas behavior, 1.00 atm, 27°C, calculate the volume of the carbon dioxide produced by the power plant mentioned.
(b) What volume
can we obtain if CO2 (liquid form) stored in underground has an equation of state as 10 °C, 120 atm, and
density of 1.2 g/cm^3?
(c) Storing this underground as gas [on another note] at 36 °C and 90 atm, what
volume can it occupy? Is the volume is larger or smaller than in liquid form? Explain.
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