A REPORT ON “UPGRADING BIOGAS BY REMOVAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE FOR USE AS A DOMESTIC FUEL” By R.Mani Sravani 2010A1PS512G Avi Agarwal 2010A1PS515G BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE‚ PILANI- K.K.BIRLA GOA CAMPUS DECEMBER 2012 REPORT ON “UPGRADING BIOGAS BY REMOVAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE FOR USE AS A DOMESTIC FUEL” By R.Mani Sravani 2010A1PS512G Avi Agarwal 2010A1PS515G Prepared in fulfillment of Lab Oriented Project Course (BITS GC 313 ) Under
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Landfills: A Growing Menace When asked to think of the largest man made structure‚ people will invariably come up with an answer like The Great Wall of China‚ the Great Pyramids‚ or the Taj Majal. In contrast to these striking achievements of mankind is the Durham Road Landfill outside San Francisco‚ which occupies over seventy million cubic feet. It is a sad monument to the excesses of modern society [Gore 151]. One must think this huge reservoir of garbage must be the largest thing ever produced
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environment. The causes are split up into two groups. There are the natural or anthropogenic causes‚ and then there is the man-made human activity that causes damage to our Earth more. Some people believe that the natural causes are a release of methane gas from arctic tundra and wetlands‚ and that the Earth is going through a natural phase that we have no control over. Many believe that though man-made pollution is what is causing global warming to occur. There are more man-made causes that do more
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What needs to be done to achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets by 2020? Since the beginning of Industrial Revolution‚ concentrations of carbon dioxide‚ methane‚ and nitrous oxide have all risen dramatically because of human activities. Fossil fuel combustion‚ land-use change‚ increasingly intensive agriculture‚ and an expanding global human population are the primary causes for these increases. Other greenhouse gases found in our planet’s atmosphere include water vapor and ozone. Carbon
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What is Global Warming? What is Global Warming? Lesson Objectives: • To understand what is meant by ‘global warming’ • To know what we think causes global warming. • To begin to understand how our activities can cause climate change. The sun sends out energy as heat and light. This energy comes to our earth during the day time. Some of the sun’s rays get ‘trapped’ in the atmosphere. Some of them get reflected back into space. The ones which get through the atmosphere warm the earth up. All
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living organisms. Speaking of the major differences between a hydrothermal vent and cold seep vents‚ besides hydrogen sulfide‚ the seep vent has cold methane plus oil seep out of sediments to provide abundant energy; but the hydrogen sulfide is the only main energy source in the hydrothermal vent. Hence‚ some living organisms in the cold seep vent use methane instead of sulfide to convert it into sugar. 6. Watch the deep sea fishing video at the bottom of the page and summarize its contents here in a
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that as each hydrocarbon chain gets bigger‚ there are more atoms and thus more electrons which contributes to higher dispersion forces and therefore a higher boiling point which is clearly seen through the graph. b) Uses of the First Ten Alkanes Methane -> A major component of natural gas (fuel). Ethane-> A component of natural gas (fuel). Propane-> A component of liquefied petroleum gas and bottled gas. Butane-> A component of liquefied petroleum gas and cigarette lighters (fuel). Pentane->
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environment. Global warming is not a new phenomenon. It is often referred to as the gradual rise of the earths near surface temperature as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities. The green house gases are carbon dioxide‚ methane‚ nitrogen‚ ozone and water vapor‚ they act as a blanket that traps enough heat from the sun to warm the earth. This is the green house effect as it is essential to life‚ for without it the earth would be so cold and would be uninhabitable. If not
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Name: Ana Cecilia Alcalá Bolio Registration: 2693441 Course title: Chemistry II Teacher’s name: Hugo Skyol Pliego Cortes Module: 1. Hydrocarbons in life. Activity: Homework 3 Date: January 30‚ 2013 Team: Doesn’t apply. Bibliography: Universidad TecMilenio. BlackBoard. Topic 3. http://bbsistema.tecmilenio.edu.mx/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_109276_1%26url%3D Wikipedia.org. “Ethane” (2012)
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I have always believed that climate change exists and I have seen proof of it. Speaking of proof‚ an example is a graph that NASA has created that explains the drastic increase of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the past few years. As you can see from the graph‚ the graph sharply inclined upwards around the past century‚ passing the line shown in the graph. I have also witnessed glaciers melting away and Arctic and Antarctic animals hopelessly trying to cope with melting ice. However
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