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Consumption of natural resources depletion of fossil fuels (fuel-oil, gas-oil, carbon, natural gas and oil), consumption of electricity and water. The plant consumes medium-pressure steam, while electricity generation and steam... 

Hydrocarbons are abundant in nature. All fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) are basically hydrocarbons, deviating, however, significantly in their H C ratio. 

Roughly 80% of the world s energy comes from fossil fuels, where oil is the world s leading energy resource. The oil resources are concentrated in a few regions. 

The land, which includes the soils on the surface of Earth as well as the rocks and sediments deep in the ground and under the oceans, contains most of the carbon in the carbon cycle. The rocks under Earths surface hold about 65 million Gt of carbon the soils on the surface hold over 1,500 Gt of carbon. Underground, much of the carbon is in fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas. 

Fossil fuels Coal, oil, and natural gas all formed from the remains of plants and animals under great heat and pressure over long periods of time. 

We are rapidly exhausting the earth s supply of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), which are also raw materials for plastics, fabrics, and many essential items. We face a major problem when the supply of raw materials is gone. Moreover, burning fossil fuels increases C02 in the atmosphere, which threatens to alter the climate. 

Fossil fuel, like oil, coal, and gas, which takes care of more than 90% of industry s energy needs, is not renewable on this time scale, at least if we adhere to the definition that a fuel is not renewable when its consumption rate exceeds its production rate. With fossil fuel so prominent in our industrial society, let us make a thermodynamic analysis of a fossil-fueled power station. 

Carbon is present in every fossil fuel—coal, oil, and gas—as is hydrogen. Essentially all carbon atoms are converted to C02 when the fuel is burned. 

When one considers the early 2000 s, it can be expected that about one half of the thermal energy will be supplied by natural gas, and the rest by petroleum fuels (fuel oil and residual oil) and coal. Coal is assumed to be the main energy source for electricity generation, gasoline for surface transportation, and jet fuel for air transportation. This is of course a simplified version of the fossil fuel energy system, but it is close enough to the present patterns of energy consumption, and can be used as the basis for comparisons. 

In 2003 in the republic the amount of GHG emissions was 6 tons/capita. According to forecasts it will amount to 8 tons/capita up to 2010-2020 years due to the increase of consumption of fossil fuels, particularly oil and gas by 40-50% and 15-20%, respectively. 

Currently, CDDs are primarily released to the environment during combustion of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) and wood, and during incineration processes (municipal and medical solid waste and hazardous waste incineration). While incineration may be the primary current source of release of CDDs into the environment, the levels of CDDs produced by incineration are extremely low. CDDs are associated with ash generated in combustion and incineration processes. 

At present, roughly 80% of the current global energy needs comes from fossil fuels. Besides, oil is used as a raw material for the production of several chemical products. Ethanol (C2H5OH), a natural product obtained from biomass, is, on the one hand, a renewable source of energy that would be an important factor for near-zero carbon dioxide (C02) emissions, on the other hand, it is the basis for a C2 chemistry, that is, a raw material for the production of different chemical products [19,21,137-147], Besides, ethanol is accessible, can be easily transported, biodegradable, has low toxicity, and can be transformed by catalytic reactions [137],... 

Over time, the organic matter was covered with layers of mud and sediments. As layer upon layer built up, heat and tremendous pressure transformed the sediments into shale and the organic matter into solid, liquid, and gaseous materials. These materials are the fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—that society depends on today. (See Figure 13.2.)... 

Abbaian, M. J., and Weil, S. A., Phase equilibria of continuous fossil fuel process oils. AIChE J. 34, 574 (1988). 

Another extreme is represented by China and India, which rank first and second in population. Their respective per-capita energy consumptions were 4.4 and 1.7 barrels of oil equivalent in 1992, the smallest in this group of countries. Of the three fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—coal contributed 78 and 60% to energy demand in China and India, while natural gas contributed only 2 and 6%, respectively. This suggests that the indigenous reserves of coal are large and those of natural gas are small in these countries. 

The Hydrogen Economy Some people believe that hydrogen can help to end the world s dependence on burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) for energy. They have talked about the day when the age of fossil fuels will be replaced by a hydrogen economy. 

Humanity s major sources of energy are derived from fossil fuels, principally oil, gas, coal, and wood. The major combustion by-products of fossil fuel burning include sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon dioxide (CO2), and nitric oxide (NO2), and partially oxidized hydrocarbons. The process of burning fossil fuels in thermal power plants, factories, homes, and motor vehicles emits enormous amounts of the aforementioned pollutants. The most important environmental concerns resulting from fossil fuel use are global climate change, acid rain, surface ozone, and partic-ulate-Zaerosol-bound toxins. 

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