NON-RENEWABLE ENERGY Coal Oil Natural gas nuclear

definition  Non-renewable- any natural resource that cannot be replenished by natural means at the same rates that it is consumed Examples?

COAL  How mined?  Surface  Underground  Longwall

COAL  Processing steps  Washed  crushed

COAL  uses

DTE Monroe Coal plant

How it works

coal advantages  Plentiful in US  inexpensive disadvantages  Produces CO 2 when burned  Produces ash- must be disposed of

OIL  How mined?  Drilled  Pumped out  Into pipeline

Processing (refining) steps: Boiled Separates based on boiling point and density OIL

Oil uses

Oil Advantages  High heating value  Abundant  Easy to refine disadvantages  Emits CO 2  rely on foreign sources  Oil spills

NATURAL GAS  How mined?  Fracking  Force chemical laden water thru fractures and breaks up shale  Releases oil and gas

Processing (refining)  Removes impurities  Mainly sulfur

Natural Gas advantages  Burns cleaner  Inexpensive  No ash  High heating value diadvantages  Hard to recover from ground  Contaminate groundwater?

NUCLEAR  Uranium mining  Surface mining (mostly)

Uranium processing  Crush  Purified  Dried  Yellow cake  Enriched to concentrate

Uranium uses?  Nuclear power plants (electricity)  Nuclear weapons

Nuclear power plant how it works

Fermi 2, Monroe Michigan

nuclear  Advantages  No emissions  Cost efficient  Disadvantages  Radioactivity  Nuclear waste  Plants expensive to build