TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant near Cedarville, Tennessee, burns about 14,000 tons of coal a day. A typical rail car is 53 ft long from coupling to coupling, weighs 30 tons empty and can carry 100 tons of coal. How many minutes would you have to wait at a crossing for this train to pass, each day, if it was pulled by four locomotives, each 70 ft long and moving at 10 miles per hour through town? Such delays cause decreased ability to provide effective emergency response times and interference with commuters and local freight delivery affecting the local economy.
Thermochemistry
Thermochemistry can be considered as a branch of thermodynamics that deals with the connections between warmth, work, and various types of energy, formed because of different synthetic and actual cycles. Thermochemistry describes the energy changes that occur as a result of reactions or chemical changes in a substance.
Exergonic Reaction
The term exergonic is derived from the Greek word in which ‘ergon’ means work and exergonic means ‘work outside’. Exergonic reactions releases work energy. Exergonic reactions are different from exothermic reactions, the one that releases only heat energy during the course of the reaction. So, exothermic reaction is one type of exergonic reaction. Exergonic reaction releases work energy in different forms like heat, light or sound. For example, a glow stick releases light making that an exergonic reaction and not an exothermic reaction since no heat is released. Even endothermic reactions at very high temperature are exergonic.
TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant near Cedarville, Tennessee, burns about 14,000 tons of coal a day. A typical rail car is 53 ft long from coupling to coupling, weighs 30 tons empty and can carry 100 tons of coal. How many minutes would you have to wait at a crossing for this train to pass, each day, if it was pulled by four locomotives, each 70 ft long and moving at 10 miles per hour through town? Such delays cause decreased ability to provide effective emergency response times and interference with commuters and local freight delivery affecting the local economy.
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