Using fuels to generate electricity - Chapter11 - Foundation Physics
1. Put these sentences in the right order
Heat from the fuel is used to boil water
2 Which type of fuel does not need to be burnt? gas coal nuclear oil
3. What must happen to this fuel for it to release energy? coal is burnt oil is burnt the atoms split up the hot gases drive a turbine
4. What is different about a gas fired power station?
5. One solid waste that has to be put somewhere: carbon dioxide sulphur dioxide nitrogen oxides soot ash from the boiler
6. Four types of waste that go into the atmosphere:
7. For very 100 tonnes of coal burned in a power station how many tonnes are usefully transferred as electricity?
What you need to remember:
Using fuels to generate electricity
Coal, oil and gas are called Examples of nuclear fuels are and. All these fuels are non-renewable - once they are used up, they are gone . All non-renewable fuels transfer energy as . For coal and oil power stations, this energy is used to boil water. This produces which is used to turn a . This drives a shaft connected to a which produces .
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