Compare the Efficiency of Banana Peel, Peel Briquettes and Coal in Order to Evaluate Environmentally Friendly Fuel

It is reported that about 50-60 % of processed citrus fruit is transformed into waste, which is composed of peels, seeds and membrane residues (Fong, 2012).

In proximate analysis of the coal the moisture content, ash, the volatile matter, and the fixed carbon in the coal sample is determined. It is the most common simplest form of coal evaluation.

One possible way you can prevent deforestation is by using recycled items. Today a person can purchase a variety of

Auto-ignition temperature The minimum temperature to which a material must be raised before combustion will occur. Also called “ignition temperature.”

Coal is currently one of the world’s largest sources of energy. There are different types of coal which are peat, lignite, bituminous and anthracite. Brown coal (lignite) is a combustible sedimentary rock that is found in the layers under the earth. Brown coal is the lowest grade of coal and is soft due to the water content. Since brown coal is high in moisture and is combustive, it was uneconomical to transport, but currently available drying techniques makes it easier to transport. A question that has been raised over the years is whether power stations which use brown coal should be closed.

The EPA has a ‘Waste Management Hierarchy’ and it begins with reducing and reusing what we consume in order to reduce waste.

Bananas and plantains (Musa spp.) are one of the major staple foods in the world. In 2006 the estimated world production of bananas was 80.6 million tons while 16.8 tons were traded (Cohen, 2011). Although bananas are common today, the origins of the banana are complex and occurred over thousands of years during multiple stages. Archeologists focused on the Kuk Valley of New Guininea, the area where the domestication of bananas supposedly took place around 8,000 BCE (Before Common Era) (Bot, 2007). The study of banana history has been difficult because banana pollen and seeds were rare or absent at archaeological sites. It wasn’t until recent technologies and the use of multi-disciplinary research that we could gain a better understanding. Genetics and linguistic studies also help in understanding the banana origin (Hirst, 2015). Diploid and triploid forms of bananas have been identified and their distribution throughout the world is a key piece of evidence in unlocking the truth about banana domestication.

The author of the book, “The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World” (2008), Dan Koeppel, who is a famous journalist describes in a fascinating way banana’s cultural importance, threats associated with the crops of banana in the future and banana’ history. Banana is a very delicious fruit and is eaten all over the world. Banana is one of the world’s fourth largest harvests in the world. Dole and Chiquita are eminent American based distributors and producers of banana. They are claiming to produce the banana on low price. In this book, Koeppel discusses the risks associated to the plantation of banana around the world. He also discusses the fact that due to blight, the plantation of banana is destroyed (Koeppel, 2008). He points out that the farmers and the producers have no insight at all regarding this matter (Koeppel, 2008).

In the novel, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel, the underlying complexity of a banana is shown. There are many factors that contributed to the various forms of bananas that exist today. The novel lays out the history and production of bananas, as well as some interesting aspects about the banana that make it different from other fruits. The history of the banana has greatly evolved. Due to diseases, the bananas that used to exist no longer exist. “That’s what happened to the Gros Michel.” Just 50 years after the disease hit, the Gros Michel was extinct and the Cavendish took its place (Koeppel 16). The extinction of the Gros Michel was not only a threat to companies, such as

The fossil fuel coal is a burnable bituminous black rock that is consisting mainly of carbonized plant matter which is mainly found underground in seams and is also used as a fuel. In time, material that had been plants became coal. The main use for coal today is for generating electricity from one stop to another, cement manufacturing, steel products and as well as a liquid fuel. Coal is formed by plant decay which then turns into peat, the peat will than change to lignite which is a soft brown coal then after that a bituminous coal is formed which is black and brittle but also very polluting, after which an anthracite coal is formed, the anthracite coal contains the highest amount of carbon making it the cleanest and safest to burn. There are two ways coal can be

Fuel combustion is the process of where fuel is burnt that releases heat and light which is an exothermic reaction meaning it releases heat. The fuel is a hydrocarbon, which reacts with oxygen to release energy however a small amount of heat energy is needed to start fuel combustion. The products to the reaction are carbon dioxide and water.

Metabolic heat flux: 1. Rate of molecules moving throughout a metabolic pathway. 2. “Flux (Metabolism).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 3 Apr. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_(metabolism).

This stove burns so hot it actually burns off a good portion of the wood gases, thus leaving a cleaner environment and less of a smoke signature if you need to worry about your smoke being spotted. Burns hot and clean, a perfect combination.

Coal has been one of the main and most used resources of energy, although it is a non-renewable resource and is a fossil fuel. Most countries depend on the combustion of coal when it comes to generating electricity. Burning coal has its advantages, like efficiently releasing energy in the form of heat, but it also has its disadvantages. The combustion of coal contributes to many environmental issues like climate change and acid rain, which lead to many health problems. One of the main polluting products of coal combustion is

When the fuels are burnt, energy is given off. I will be calculating the energy given off using the formula above. The specific heat capacity is the energy