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Electricity, gas, solid fuels
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What is petroleum used for?
It is used mainly for fuel (airplanes, trains, automobiles), as a source of heat for homes and businesses, and in the manufacture of plastics and pharmaceutical supplies, and tar for asphalt.
Heat engine utilizes low heat value of fuel or high heat value of fuel?
Heat engine utilizes low heat value of oil and also the fuel oil consumption for IC engine usually based on high heat value of oilby Shyam
What is the working of economizer in a boiler plant?
Economizer is a device in which the waste heat of the fuel gases is utilized for heating the feed water.
What is power cogeneration?
Power cogeneration is a method of energy conservation. Specifically, it refers to the process of increasing the efficiency of our energy delivery processes by utilizing wasted heat energy. For example, hot water is an unused product of electric power plants (water is used for cooling purposes). In certain countries, like the US, this hot water is dumped into lakes or rivers. Instead, that hot water can be redirected to heat homes, like in most countries in Europe. This is doubly effective because electricity is used to heat most homes in America, and if we take advantage of waste heated water, we can cut down on our electricity consumption.
What features have architects and designers used to help them build energy efficient homes?
Changing normal window glasses to thermopanes to prevent loss of heat during winter. Reusing heated water and running it under the floor to heat up the house.
In which parts of the USA do people need to use the most fuel to heat their homes?
Fuel is needed to heat homes. Cold environments, such as Montana and Colorado, are always cold and people need much more heat to constantly heat their homes.
What practical use would a substance with a very high specific heat have?
Heat and thus energy storage. UK heating systems in homes use circulating water to heat homes because of water's high Specific Heat Capacity.
How is biofuel used to heat water?
The Bio-fuel is burnt in air to heat water.
How could you use less fuel to heat your homes?
keep the house cooler and wear a jumper
Why aren't microwaves used to heat homes?
Microwaves are usually tuned to heat the water in things. We are mostly water and would be cooked.
Why is oil burned in a furnace?
Mainly to heat homes, buildings, and water.
How does coal help the economy?
It is used for fuel to heat homes, used for energy for manufacturing companies, machinery.
Which fossil fuel is most often used to heat homes?
Coal, Natural Gas, Oil, and Wind
How do steam radiators heat homes?
The metal fins on the outside of the hot water pipes radiate heat into the room.
How is natural gas used in the UK?
Natural gas is used primarily for heating our homes in the winter months. It is also used to heat water and to wash clothes. Another use for natural gas is to fuel many vehicles, such as garbage trucks and transit buses. It is becoming a much more popular form of vehicle fuel.
How do people use heat?
To heat their water supplies/disinfect largely used amounts of wells. To cook with. To warm their homes.
What is energy from the sun that can be used to heat homes and provide hot water?
Radiant Energy
