Chemical engineering, carbon dioxide combustibles

C04-0002. Although gasoline is a complex mixture of molecules, the chemical reaction that takes place in an automobile engine can be represented by combustion of one of its components, octane (Cg Hig). Such burning of fossil fuels releases millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the Earth s atmosphere each year. Write a balanced equation for the combustion of octane. 

Our objective in this chapter is to begin the subject of stoichiometry, the quantitative study of chemical reactions. This will help us determine, for example, what quantity of oxygen is required for complete combustion of a given quantity of glucose or what mass of carbon dioxide can be obtained. Stoichiometry is a part of chemistry that is fundamental to much of what chemists, chemical engineers, biochemists, molecular biologists, geochemists, and many others do. 

Examples included in this class Asbestos Carbon dioxide, solid (dry ice) Consumer commodity Chemical and First aid kits Environmentally hazardous substance Life-saving appliances Engines, internal combustion Vehicles (flammable gas powered). Vehicles (flammable liquid powered) Polymeric beads Battery-powered equipment or vehicles Zinc dithionite Genetically modified organisms and micro-organisms which are not infectious substances but which are capable of altering animals, plants, or microbiological substances in a way which is not normally the result of natural reproduction. lATA 3.9.14... 

The thermochemical decomposition of organic-chlorine and organic-phosphor CW in oxygen environment (these account for the absolute majority of the Baltic dumped chemical weapons) permits them to be reduced to some easy-to-decontaminate or harmless compounds like carbon dioxide, phosphorus oxides or hydrogen chloride, sulphur oxides. The processes take place in combustion chambers at 3,000-3,500°C and a pressure of several MPa, using methods traditional for liquid-propellant rocket engines. The end combustion products of other CW might be additionally condensed to trap the hazardous compounds. 

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