Natural gas

Combustible energy- Combustible energy is a natural form of energy that has been formed and is continuing to be made over millions of years from organic matter. These are generally in the form of fossil fuels and come in 5 main forms: Coal, Petroleum, Natural Gas, LPG (liquified petroleum gas and crude oil. The method that is used to extract usable energy from combustible energy is by putting it through a fossil fuel power station. In these power plants, fuels are burnt to produce steam which…

Engineering is the profession in which knowledge of mathematical, physical and natural sciences gained by study, experience and practice is applied with judgment and careful investigation in order to develops ways to utilize economically, the resources and forces of nature to benefit mankind and improve its condition. Engineering bases its principles on applied sciences and engineers use these principles acquired through education and experience to come up with safe designs that meet the needs…

Methane is the final product of Anaerobic Digestion. A mixture of methane and carbon dioxide is called a biogas and it can be used for heating and can be used as a natural gas. Anaerobic treatment systems are divided into “high rate” systems involving biomass retention and “low rate” systems without biomass retention. High rate systems are characterized by a relatively short hydraulic retention time but long sludge retention time and can be used to treat many types of wastewater. Low rate…

going to get a glass of water out of the faucet and it comes out black or not at all. In the movie “Gasland”, a fracking site(s) has leaked into many different homes water sources. These families now have to get water trucked to their house because gas has leaked into their water. They were able to take lighters to their faucets and ignite the water into flames. How would this make you feel that even your home water was contaminated? Fracking affects not only your home water source, but…

not the solution for the future. Geothermal energy uses heat from the ground to generate electricity, but it takes up space and a lot of money to get in the ground six miles deep. Biomass energy is somewhat similar to fossil fuels because it is a natural source of fuel that is living or was living that is burnt to create energy. The issue is the pollutants and emissions created along with need for land to grow biomass…

Along with the threat of conflict in the Asia-Pacific region owing to access to fresh water is the decline of fertile agricultural land. Agricultural land is not only the source of actual food for the subsistence of the populations from whence it is yielded but also the source of employment and in turn income for a huge proportion of the population in the Asia-Pacific region. There are currently dozens of deals being cut between rich or powerful countries with shortages of fertile land or in…

brought on by the lingering presence of fracking fluid. Dr. Eaton and Xuewei Bao also suggest that most of the recent earthquakes in Oklahoma and other parts of the United States have been caused by the burial of wastewater from all kinds of oil and gas wells rather than by the fracking process itself. Wastewater is injected under pressure into disposal wells drilled into a sandstone or other permeable formation and flows into the rock. That can cause pressure changes in the formation that can…

solid, liquid or gas and the oxidizer, the source of oxygen can also be a solid liquid or gas. A new chemical substance is created from the fuel and source of oxygen. These new chemical substances are referred to as exhaust. For combustion to occur, a fuel, oxygen and heat are required. In an alkane, the more carbon atoms that are present, the more heat that is produced because of combustion. Examples of Alkane Fuels: • Methane – main alkane present in natural gas (e.g. North Sea gas) •…

The obvious answer would be we would if we were able too. But that is not the case since fossil fuel is a natural made substance and process which we can’t recreate. To begin it takes hundred million and millions of years to make. It’s made from decaying plants and remains of living organisms that are buried under several layers of earth. Once under so many layers…

extract oil or gas comes with problems, such as poisoning air and drinking water which makes the people become sick. Rachel Ehrenberg states that “ Fracking… Poisons air and drinking water and make people sick.” The government should not allow a practice in which makes the soil near the sites of fracking to become poisonous and unable to sustain life because of the gas that seeps out as a byproduct of fracking as Rachel Ehrenberg states a “leakage of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that can…