Non-Renewable Sources Of Energy
The sources of energy, which can not be replaced quickly or another times if it is used once is called non renewable source of energy. This note provides an information about different types of nonrenewable natural resources.
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The sources of energy, which can not be replaced quickly or another times if it is used once is called non renewable source of energy. This note provides an information about different types of nonrenewable natural resources.
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- The sources of energy, which can not be replaced quickly or another time if it is used once is called non-renewable source of energy.
- Fossils fuel, coal, petroleum (mineral oil), nuclear energy, gas, etc. are the example of non-renewable energy.
- The energy formed by nuclear fusion and fission (nuclear reaction) is called nuclear energy.
- Petrol, diesel, kerosene, lubricating oil, petroleum gas, etc. are commonly called petroleum or mineral oil.
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Non-Renewable Sources Of Energy
Fossils fuel
When dead bodies of plants and animals are buried inside the earth's surface for several millions of years, due to high temperature and pressure of the earth, they decompose in theabsence of oxygen and form coal and petroleum. These products are called fossil fuel.
Coal:
It is thenon-renewable source of energy. It is used as important sources of fuel in industries like iron, industries, steel industries, brick factory, cement factory etc. It is used to run trains and used in thethermal plant for production of electricity.
The coal which is available on earth are of different types on the basis of percentage of carbon present in them, coalsare classified into 4 types:
Types of coal(Percentage of carbon)
- Peat (11% of carbon)
- Lignite (38% of carbon)
- Bituminous (65% of carbon)
- Anthracite (98% of carbon
Among these, Anthracite is the best quality of coal, peat and lignite are low quality of coal.
Petroleum (mineral oil)
Petrol, diesel, kerosene, lubricating oil, petroleum gas, etc. are commonly called petroleum or mineral oil. It is obtained as a crude oil from its mine, then it is purified to petrol, diesel, kerosene, etc, and remaining 'tar' which is used to make the tarred road. It is the most important fuel, which fulfills the demand of energy of the world. It is used by different vehicles, engine, factories, industries, etc as a chief source of fuel. It is also used to generate electricity.
During the purification of crude oil, petrol gas is liquefied to LPG gas is liquefied petrol gas) which we use in your kitchen for cooking purpose.
Advantages of coal, mineral oil and gas:
- It is a chief source of energy and more abundant in comparison to another type of energy.
- It is easy for transportation.
- It is used to generate electricity.
- It is multipurpose fuel. Thus, it is used to run different vehicles even aeroplane.
Nuclear energy:
The energy formed by nuclear fusion and fission (nuclear reaction) is called nuclear energy.
When two light nuclei are combined together to form a heavy nucleus this process is known as nuclear fusion. During nuclear fusion, a large amount of energy is released.
When a heavy nucleus of uranium, plutonium is bombarded by neutrons then these nuclei break into two or more nuclei liberating a large amount of energy. This process is called nuclear fission. During nuclear fission reaction, some mass is lost to form energy. The energy thus formed is used to boil water into steam and steam engine is operated from it.
Lesson
Energy
Subject
Science
Grade
Grade 10
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