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What is flue gas?
What is flue gas?
- The gas produced during the combustion of fossil fuels
- The gas used in chemical processes and scrubbers at power plants
- The gas exiting to the atmosphere via a flue, conveying exhaust gases from combustion (correct)
- The gas used to start a fireplace, oven, furnace, boiler or steam generator
What is the composition of flue gas from most fossil-fuel combustion?
What is the composition of flue gas from most fossil-fuel combustion?
- Carbon dioxide, water vapor, and nitrogen oxides
- Oxygen, carbon monoxide, and sulfur oxides
- Nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor (correct)
- Particulate matter, nitrogen, and excess oxygen
What pollutants are often present in flue gas at power plants?
What pollutants are often present in flue gas at power plants?
- Water vapor, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen
- Soot, excess oxygen, and carbon dioxide
- Oxygen, sulfur oxides, and excess nitrogen
- Particulate matter, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides (correct)
What technology is available to remove pollutants from flue gas at power plants?
What technology is available to remove pollutants from flue gas at power plants?
What does the composition of flue gas at power plants depend on?
What does the composition of flue gas at power plants depend on?
Who created the first commercially successful internal combustion engine?
Who created the first commercially successful internal combustion engine?
What component of an internal combustion engine does the high-temperature and high-pressure gases produced by combustion apply force to?
What component of an internal combustion engine does the high-temperature and high-pressure gases produced by combustion apply force to?
Which engine is known as the first modern internal combustion engine?
Which engine is known as the first modern internal combustion engine?
In which type of internal combustion engine does combustion occur intermittently?
In which type of internal combustion engine does combustion occur intermittently?
Which class of internal combustion engines use continuous combustion?
Which class of internal combustion engines use continuous combustion?
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