and their uses Exploration milestone-an overview. INTRODUCTION: By definition petroleum is a generic name for hydrocarbons‚ including crude oil‚ natural gas liquids‚ natural gas and their products. Petroleum comes from the Latin petra meaning rock or stone & oleum meaning oil. Petroleum occurs in the earth in combination of any of the four states: gas‚ liquid‚ semisolid‚ and solid. Chemically‚ petroleum is a mixture of carbon‚ hydrogen and oxygen (called hydrocarbons) with minor amounts of nitrogen
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Analysts expect gas prices to decrease or remain mostly flat not only in 2014‚ but for years to come. Nonetheless‚ drivers in some states will see higher prices at the pump‚ starting January 1. Gas prices may not have seemed all that cheap in 2013. But in fact‚ prices for the year as a whole were less expensive than they have been. According toAAA’s year-end report‚ American drivers paid $3.49 per gallon of regular‚ on average for 2013. That’s the cheapest per-gallon average since 2010; the national
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New Vehicle Technology challenges first responders N.V.T. seems to be the buzzword with extrication these days. Today’s vehicles are safer‚ smaller and more fuel-efficient. The recently imposed legislated improvements to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 214 and most recently 216‚ deal with side and roof strength and also the integrity of motor vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) is the governing body that imposes these standards backed by the American
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Review the behavior of the gas phase vs. the liquid phase. Solution: a) The volume of the liquid remains constant‚ but the volume of the gas increases to the volume of the larger container. b) The volume of the container holding the gas sample increases when heated‚ but the volume of the container holding the liquid sample remains essentially constant when heated. c) The volume of the liquid remains essentially constant‚ but the volume of the gas is reduced. The particles in a gas are further apart than
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General Electric Company General Electric Company or also popularly known as GE is the biggest conglomerate in the United States. GE has always been firm and strong with its industrial businesses. It offers diversified technology and is also a credible financial services company. With its wide and diverse variety of products of; aircraft engines‚ water processing‚ household appliances‚ power generation‚ industrial products‚ business and consumer financing‚ GE is unquestionably a strong conglomerate
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6. To make the circuit “cold”‚ what do you need to do? WHY? Turn the resistance up and the voltage down. It completely stops the flow of electrons through the battery. Which means the battery is not able to work because there is no electric current being created. 7. Describe the relationship between voltage and
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ORO CITY GAS ABSORPTION COLUMN - MASS TRANSFER EXPERIMENT B ChE 35 Chemical Engineering Laboratory II Acabo‚ Dean Cris Aguirre‚ Ian Carlo Belarmino‚ Arniel Catan‚ Charles John Engr. Marco Theodore E. Escaňo ChE 35 Instructor October 2012 OBJECTIVE: To calculate rate of absorption of carbon dioxide into water from analysis of liquid solutions flowing down the absorption column. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND: Absorption refers to the transfer of a gaseous component from the gas phase to a
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------------------------------------------------- Shale gas From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For gas generated by oil shale pyrolysis‚ see Oil shale gas. 48 Shale basins in 38 countries‚ as per the EIA Derrick and platform of drilling gas wells in Marcellus Shale (Pennsylvania‚ USA). Shale gas is natural gas formed from being trapped within shale formations.[1] Shale gas has become an increasingly important source of natural gas in the United States since the start of this century‚ and interest has spread to potential gas shales in
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Cindy Hoang-Tran Professor Ducat English 101 13 Dec 2012 Gas Fracking Natural gas is extremely useful in our lives. We need natural gases to heat our houses and use microwave ovens‚ conventional ovens and stovetops. Because the economy currently isn’t well off – and hasn’t been recently – natural gases are now in higher demand for cheaper prices. Oil and gas drilling facilities are now making it possible for natural gases to be sold at extremely cheap prices and accessible amounts through the
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Complete ALL problems under each heading in your packer. SHOW ALL WORK AND LABELS! Bolye’s Law Problems Example: If I have 5.6 liters of gas in a piston at a pressure of 1.5 atm and compress the gas until its volume is 4.8 L‚ what will the new pressure inside the piston be? • Read the problem and determine what is given and what is unknown? • Decide which law to use. • Substitute the values (given numbers) from the problem into the equation Given: P1 = 1.5 atm Unknown
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