ESCI201 Chapter 5
Here are the topics for Chapter 5:
5A Fossil fuels:
- primary energy
- biofuel
- algae biofuel
- electrical generation
- coal
- oil
- natural gas
- LNG
- methane
- flaring
- natural gas vehicle
- petroleum
- coal fired power plant
- natural gas power plant
- fossil fuel
- peat
- kerogen
- fractional distillation
- octane
- methane
- ethanol
- hydrocarbon
- combustion
- hydrocarbon derivative
5B Reserve vs occurrence:
- resource
- resource occurrence
- reserve
- reserve vs occurrence
- McKelvey box
- bitumen
- SAGD
- tar sands
- oil sands
- conventional vs unconventional resource
- pipelines
- horizontal well
- unconventional resource
- hydraulic fracturing (fracking)
- petrochemical
- hydrocarbon resource
- octane rating
- carbon dioxide
- carbon
- gigatonne
- climate forcing
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