Coal, Iron and Steel (4,6,7) Flashcards

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What is coal

A

Carbon rich sediment desposit

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2
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What is the formula for coal to heat

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Coal+oxygen > heat + co2 + h2o

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3
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What else does coal contain

A

Volitiles

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4
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What are the volities

A

Hydrogen
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Sulphur

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5
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What are the minor consituants of coal?

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Chlorine
Phoshorus
Trace elemnts

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6
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What are the economic properties of coal

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Hardness (easy to grind)
Calorific Value (amount of energy it gives off)
Ash content
Swell and Cake (expand when heated)

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7
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What is coke?

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This is the residue that remains when coal is heated until a large amount of volatiles have gone

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8
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What is town gas

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Methane gas produced by coal

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9
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In what era was coal formed?

A

Carboniferous and the Permian

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10
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How is coal formed (whats the paleo envirment)

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Formed from the remains of fossil plants, devonian saw life develope

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11
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What was key about the carboniferous

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Saw widespread swamps and forrests

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12
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what are cyclotherms?

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Cyclic repetition of the same sed sequence due to a change in sea level

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13
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What is seatearth

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A fossil soil found where the plants grew beneath the coal seam

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14
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What are the ranks of coal (4)

A
Peat
Soft Brown
Hard brown
Bituminous
Anthractie
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15
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Where are the UK coal fields?

A
Scotland
South Yorkshire
South wales
Kent
Somerset
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16
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Where is anthracite found?

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Only in S Wales and Kent

17
Q

How did the varsican orgeny effect the coal seams?

A

IT folded and bended them

18
Q

What effects coal exploitation (7)

A
Coal markets
Transport Links
Coal Quality
Seam Depth
Seam thickness
Seam structure and sedimentology
Mining hazards
19
Q

What are bell pits?

A

Extremely dangerous primitive method

20
Q

What is open cast mining?

A

Open pit minies where everything is dug out to create a huge pit

21
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Where is an open pit mine?

A

South wales

22
Q

What is drift and slant mining

A

Where the rock is dug into from the side, it enters the coal seem. It goes horizontal as oppose to down

23
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What is room and pilar mining?

A

A method underground miningwhere the mine metarial is extracted and pillars and left untouched to suport the roof

24
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Shaft mining?

A

Downcast is air intake, upcast is air outtake. Methane gas is a danger

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What is the coal legacy?
Subsidance Coal tips Acid minewater discharge Derelict land
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What are the types of iron and steel?
``` Pure Iron Wrought iron (slags included) carbon or mid steel Cast (pig) iron Alloy Steel ```
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When was the iron age?
700BC to 43AD
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What is the abudance in the eaths crust?
5.8% in wright
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What is the abundance today for iron to be economic
Larger than 50%
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Iron bearing mineral
Magnetite FE2O3 (little numbers)
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What the natural sources of iron?
Claystone Blackband Ooidal
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What is the bloomery
Low shaft furnace, about the size of a dustbin with the furnace below ground the slag would be tapped into here. Air was blown into a hole
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Problems with the bloomery
Limited production in one off proces. | Iron bloom contains slag and has to be hammered
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Solution to the bloomery problems
raise furnace temp Make larger stone furances Locate near rivers to use water wheel furances
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Why is charcole important
Charcoal is needed to heat the iron
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Problems with charcoal blast furnace?
Needs water to turn water wheels | Deforestation
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Soultuon
Use coal as the energy source | Use seam engines