If we assume Coal is 70% carbon and 30% inert materials that don't combust, when burned the equation is C+O2→CO2 + 95 kilocalories per mole of carbon (1 mole = 12 grams). How many Btu's are released by burning 1 ton (1000 kg) of coal?
If we assume Coal is 70% carbon and 30% inert materials that don't combust, when burned...
In the first several questions we will walk through the steps of a typical grams to moles--> moles to moles --> moles to grams calculation. Here is the overall question. We will estimate answers to each subsequent step, but by the time you've done these questions you should have a good sense of how to do these problems. How much SO2 in metric tonnes is produced by one day of coal burning at the Rawhide Power Plant north of Wellington,...