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Capacity to do work by performing Capacity to do work by performing mechanical, physical, chemical, or electrical mechanical, physical, chemical, or electrical tasks or to cause a heat transfer between two tasks or to cause a heat transfer between two objects at different temperaturesobjects at different temperatures
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Popular reference to energy usage is actually...Popular reference to energy usage is actually...
-Transformation of energy from one form to -Transformation of energy from one form to another form that is more useful to us.another form that is more useful to us.
Potential energy sources include: Potential energy sources include:
Nonrenewable fossil and nuclear fuelsNonrenewable fossil and nuclear fuels
Renewable forms of solar energyRenewable forms of solar energy
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Sources are converted to heat, which is used...Sources are converted to heat, which is used...
DirectlyDirectly
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To produce mechanical energyTo produce mechanical energy
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To produce electricityTo produce electricity
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Net Energy is the one that counts
Difference between the amount of energy in the source and the amount of energy expended to get that energy source ready to use.
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How do we decide which energy sources to use? List page 353
U. S. influence on world energy policy4.6% of world populationUse 24% of world’s energy
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Oil located ...
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High potentialareas
Prince WilliamSound
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Trans Alaskaoil pipeline
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GULF OF MEXICOActive drilling sites
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U.S. Oil Numbers
•3% of world’s oil reserves
•Use 26% of oil extracted world wide (68% for transportation)
•Imported 55% of oil used in the country in 2001
•2001 oil bill = $100 billion
•U.S. oil supply 80% depleted in 10 - 48 years
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More oil numbers
•Production of reserves peak between 2010 and 2030
•Identified reserves will last 53 years at present usage
•Known and projected supplies expected to be 80% used in 42 - 93 years
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Low land use
Easily transportedwithin and between countries
High netenergy yield
Low cost (withhuge subsidies)
Ample supply for42–93 years
Advantages
Moderate waterpollution
Releases CO2when burned
Air pollutionwhen burned
Artificially low price encourageswaste and discourages search for alternatives
Need to findsubstitute within50 years
Disadvantages
Efficient distribu-tion system
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Methane 50 - 90% (mostly)
Ethane, propane and butane
Hydrogen sulfide
What is it?
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Advantages Disadvantages
Good fuel forfuel cells andgas turbines
Low land use
Easily transportedby pipeline
Moderate environ-mental impact
Lower CO2
emissions thanother fossil fuels
Less air pollutionthan otherfossil fuels
Low cost (withhuge subsidies)
High net energyyield
Ample supplies(125 years)
Sometimes burned off andwasted at wellsbecause of lowprice
Shipped acrossocean as highlyexplosive LNG
Methane(a greenhouse gas) can leakfrom pipelines
Releases CO2
when burned
Nonrenewableresource
Difficult to transferfrom one countryto another
Requirespipelines Figure 15-29
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What is it?Solid fossil fuel formed from buried remains of land plants subjected to intense heat and pressure over millions of years
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Increasing moisture content
Increasing heat and carbon content
Peat(not a coal)
Lignite(brown coal)
Bituminous Coal(soft coal)
Anthracite(hard coal)
Heat
Pressure Pressure Pressure
Heat Heat
Partially decayedplant matter in swampsand bogs; low heatcontent
Low heat content;low sulfur content;limited supplies inmost areas
Extensively usedas a fuel becauseof its high heat contentand large supplies;normally has ahigh sulfur content
Highly desirable fuelbecause of its highheat content andlow sulfur content;supplies are limitedin most areas
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Advantages Disadvantages
Low cost (with huge subsidies)
High net energyyield
Ample supplies(225–900 years)
Releases radioactive particles and mercury into air
High CO2emissionswhen burned
Severe threat tohuman health
High land use (including mining)
Severe land disturbance, air pollution, andwater pollution
Very high environmentalimpact
Mining andcombustiontechnologywell-developed
Air pollution canbe reduced withimprovedtechnology (butadds to cost)
Figure 15-31Page 364
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Coal Gasification pg. 364 - 365
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Raw coal
Pulverizer
Air oroxygen
Steam
Pulverized coalSlag removal
Recycle unreactedcarbon (char)
Raw gases Cleanmethane gas
Recoversulfur
Methane(natural gas)
2CCoal
+ O2 2CO
CO + 3H2 CH4 + H2O
Remove dust,tar, water, sulfur
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Advantages Disadvantages
Large potentialsupply
Vehicle fuel
Low to moderatenet energy yield
Higher cost thancoal
High environmentalimpact
Increased surfacemining of coal
High water use
Higher CO2emissions than coal
Moderate cost(with largegovernmentSubsidies)
Lower airpollution whenburned than coal
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Controlled fission chain reaction using uranium-235 or plutonium-239.
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Radioactivity
• Alpha – helium nucleus
• Beta – electrons
• Gamma – high energy
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Protein Synthesis
DNA = TAA/CGC/GTA/TTT/CCG/CAA/GAGmRNA =
Amino Acid Sequence =
AUU/GCG/CAU/AAA/GGC/GUU/CUC
Phe-Ala-His-Lys-Gly-Val-Leu
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Periodic removaland storage of
radioactive wastesand spent fuel assemblies
Periodic removaland storage of
radioactive liquid wastes
Pump
Steam
Small amounts of radioactive gases
Water
Black
Turbine Generator
Waste heat Electrical power
Hot water output
Condenser
Cool water input
Pump
Pump Wasteheat
Useful energy25 to 30%
WasteheatWater source
(river, lake, ocean)
Heatexchanger
Containment shell
Uranium fuel input(reactor core)
Emergency corecooling system
Controlrods
Moderator
Pressurevessel
Shielding
Coolantpassage
CoolantCoolant
Hot coolantHot coolant
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Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania
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Low risk of accidents because of multiple safety systems (except in 35 poorly designed and run reactors in former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe)
Moderate land use
Moderate landdisruption andwater pollution(without accidents)
Emits 1/6 asmuch CO2 as coal
Lowenvironmentalimpact (withoutaccidents)
Large fuelsupply
Spreads knowledge and technology for building nuclear weapons
No acceptable solution for long-term storage of radioactive wastes and decommissioning worn-out plants
Catastrophic accidents can happen (Chernobyl)
High environmental impact (with major accidents)
Low net energy yield
High cost (even with large subsidies)
Advantages Disadvantages
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Coal
Ample supply
High net energyyield
Very high airpollution
High CO2
emissions
65,000 to 200,000deaths per yearin U.S.
High land disruption fromsurface mining
High land use
Low cost (with huge subsidies)
Nuclear
Ample supplyof uranium
Low net energyyield
Low air pollution(mostly from fuelreprocessing)
Low CO2
emissions(mostly from fuelreprocessing)
About 6,000deaths per year in U.S.
Much lower landdisruption fromsurface mining
Moderate land use
High cost (with huge subsidies)
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Chernobyl Reactor After Accident
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Radiation Plume From Chernobyl Nuclear Accident - 26 Apr 86
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What is Nuclear Waste?
• Low level • Gives off small
amounts of radiation• 100 – 500 years to
decay
• High level• Spent fuel rods• Any material that has
come into contact with the core of the reactor – coolant, tools, old reactor parts, etc.
• 10,000 - ? to decay
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What do we do with it?
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Waste container
Steel wall
Steel wall
Severalsteel drumsholding waste
Lead shielding
2 meters wide2–5 meters high
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Low level waste
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Clay bottom
Up to 60deep trenchesdug into clay.
As many as 20flatbed trucksdeliver wastecontainers daily.
Barrels are stackedand surroundedwith sand. Coveringis mounded to aidrain runoff.
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What covers waste
Clay
Gravel
Sand
Compacted clay
Soil
Topsoil
Grass
Gravel
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Personnel elevator
Air shaft
Nuclear waste shaft
2,500 ft.(760 m)deep
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