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Fuels
By: Group 9
Fossil fuel
a general term for buried combustible geologic
deposits of organic materials, formed from
decayed plants and animals during the
carboniferous Period (approximately 362 to 286
Million years ago).
There are different types of fossil fuels depending
of organic matter, temperature, time, and
pressure conditions while decomposing.
History of Fossil fuel
- Coal has been used for heating since the cave man.
- Archeologists have also found evidence that the Romans in
England used it in the second and third centuries (100- 200
AD).
- 1700s, the English found that coal could produce a fuel that
burned cleaner and hotter than wood charcoal.
History of fossil fuel to
electricity
Itwas in the 1880s when coal was first
used to generate electricity for homes
and factories.
By 1961, coal had become the major fuel
used to generate electricity in the United
States
Fossil Fuel to electricity
Fossil Fuel to electricity
1. A machine called a pulverizer grinds the coal
(either black or brown) into a fine powder.
2. The coal powder mixes with hot air, which helps
the coal burn more efficiently, and the mixture
moves to the furnace.
3. The burning coal heats water in a boiler,
creating steam.
4. Steam released from the boiler powers at very
high pressure used to spin an engine called a
turbine, transforming heat energy from burning
coal into mechanical energy that spins the turbine
engine.
Fossil Fuel to electricity
5. The spinning turbine is used to power a
generator, a machine that turns mechanical
energy into electric energy. This happens when
spinning turbine causes large magnets to turn
within copper wire coils in the generator spin. The
moving magnets cause electrons in the wires to
move from one place to another, creating an
electrical current and producing electricity.
6 A condenser cools the steam moving through
the turbine. As the steam is condensed, it turns
back into water. The water returns to the boiler,
and the cycle begins again. Click for video
Types of Fossil Fuel
1. Coal
2. Oil
3. Natural Gas
Coal
is a black or brownish-black sedimentary rock that
can be burned for fuel and used to generate
electricity.
It is composed mostly of carbon and
hydrocarbons, which contain energy that can be
released through combustion (burning).
Coal is the largest source of energy for generating
electricity in the world, and the most abundant
fossil fuel in the United States.
Lignite Coal
Greenhouse gases
Disadvantage
Acid Rain
Depletion of reservoirs
Disadvantage
Dangerous to the workers
Global Warming
Fossil Fuel in a nutshell
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The End!
Sources:
https://www.originenergy.com.au/blog/about-
energy/what-is-coal.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/fossil_fuel.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaXBVYr9Ij0
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/
coal/
http://teachcoal.org/converting-coal-into-electricity
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/Elem_Coal_S
tudyguide.pdf
https://www.coals2u.co.uk/blog/coal/the-many-
different-types-of-coal
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/in
dex.php?page=natural_gas_home
http://naturalgas.org/overview/uses-
electrical/
www.powerscorecard.org/tech_detail.cf
m?resource_id=8
https://sciencing.com/oil-power-plant-
work-4570209.html