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    Fossil Fuel

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    The document discusses three main types of fossil fuels: oil, coal, and natural gas. It provides details on how each formed from ancient organic materials over millions of years and how they are extracted and used today. Coal forms from ancient plants, and is mined from underground seams or through surface mining. Oil forms from ancient microorganisms and is extracted through drilling rigs. Natural gas forms in a similar way and is obtained through pumping. All three provide energy but also have environmental impacts when burned.

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    The document discusses three main types of fossil fuels: oil, coal, and natural gas. It provides details on how each formed from ancient organic materials over millions of years and how they are extracted and used today. Coal forms from ancient plants, and is mined from underground seams or through surface mining. Oil forms from ancient microorganisms and is extracted through drilling rigs. Natural gas forms in a similar way and is obtained through pumping. All three provide energy but also have environmental impacts when burned.

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    Type of fossil fuel. How it work. How it formed. Benefits and disadvantages.

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    The document discusses three main types of fossil fuels: oil, coal, and natural gas. It provides details on how each formed from ancient organic materials over millions of years and how they are extracted and used today. Coal forms from ancient plants, and is mined from underground seams or through surface mining. Oil forms from ancient microorganisms and is extracted through drilling rigs. Natural gas forms in a similar way and is obtained through pumping. All three provide energy but also have environmental impacts when burned.

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    CLAY

    SAND

    FOSSIL FUELS
    I.3 main
    types of
    fossil fuels:
    I.One day Oil, Coal I.It takes
    they could and Natural millions of
    run out. Gas. years to
    form.

    I.Fuelwood
    is a fossil
    fuel.
    Fossil I.Cannot be
    replaced
    once used.

    I.Give off
    carbon
    dioxide
    when burnt.
    Fuel I.Found
    beneath the
    ground.
    I.Burnt in
    power I.Can be
    stations to I.Burnt to difficult to
    generate give off get to.
    electricity. heat.
    Heat Kinetic
    Energy Energy

    STEAM
    FURNACE TURBINE GENERATOR
    BOILER

    Steam
    Coal, oil and Water Condensed Electricity
    natural gas water
    Coal
    • Hard, shiny black coloured rock.
    • Most mining underground, miner extract
    with hand tools (pickaxe), load it in small
    railcars by hand. Raw coal transported to
    surface to processed and crushed in
    breaker, waste coal (culm, gob) dumped
    into huge piles.
    • New technologies (large shovels, draglines)
    permit surface mining, remove overburden
    to expose coal, often result in large pits
    regularly on mountaintop mining.
    Coal
    • Hard, shiny black coloured rock.
    • Most mining underground, miner extract
    with hand tools (pickaxe), load it in small
    railcars by hand. Raw coal transported to
    surface to processed and crushed in
    breaker, waste coal (culm, gob) dumped
    into huge piles.
    • New technologies (large shovels, draglines)
    permit surface mining, remove overburden
    to expose coal, often result in large pits
    regularly on mountaintop mining.
    How it formed?
    • Plants that lived hundreds of million
    years ago. Died compressed and cover
    with soil. Therefore, air was limited and
    stopped full decomposition process
    creating peat. Over the years, heat and
    pressure work to force out Oxygen ad
    Hydrogen to form coal (in layers
    known as seams).
    Oil

    • A black, viscous slurry of different


    hydrocarbons, other organic molecules,
    and trace amounts of metals that can
    be separated and chemically changed
    into useful fuels and lubricants like
    gasoline, diesel, propane, jet fuel and
    even wax. A factory where crude oil is
    separated into fuels and other products
    by heating is called a refinery.
    Natural
    Gas

    • A naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas


    mixture consisting primarily of
    methane CH4, but commonly including
    varying amounts of other higher
    alkanes and sometimes a small
    percentage of carbon dioxide,
    nitrogen, hydrogen sulphide or helium.
    Mining Method
    • Usually obtain it by pumping it out of the
    ground. Found it under between folds of
    rock and in areas of rock that are porous
    and contain the oils within the rock itself.
    The folds of rock formed as the earth shift
    and moves. To obtain oil and gas, its need
    to be drill through the earth to the ground.
    Then, the oil and gas are pumped out from
    the ground by oil rigs. Usually travel
    through pipelines or by ship.
    How it formed?
    • Most oil and gas started as microscopic plants and animals that live in ocean. Died and
    fell to seabed. They were buried under sediment and other rock. The rock squeezed
    the diatom and energy in their bodies that could not escape. Carbons turns into oil
    under high pressure and heat.
    Fractional Distillation Tower
    • Different sizes of hydrocarbons boil at different
    temperatures and are refined by fractional
    distillation.
    Advantages Disadvantage
    • Readily available • Environment issues: Acid rain and
    • Easily transported greenhouse effect

    • Low fuel cost • Inefficient


    • Low building costs • Non-renewable.
    • Short start-up times.

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