Scientists publish a revised list of dangerous greenhouse gases. Which statements describe the importance of this information? Check all that apply. It confirms the need for oil fracking to produce energy. It determines the connection this information has to glacier melting. It assesses how many coal power plants to add in a community. It supports laws that protect the public from environmental hazards. It leads to new jobs that search for innovative ways to control emissions.

As part of an industrial process, air as an ideal gas at 10 bar, 400k expands at steady state through a valve to a pressure of 4 bar. the mass flow rate of air is 0.5 kg/s. the air then passes through a heat exchanger where it is cooled to a temperature of 295k with negligible change in pressure. the valve can be modeled as a throttling process, and kinetic and potential energy effects can be neglected. (a) for a control volume enclosing the valve and heat exchanger and enough of the local surroundings that the heat transfer occurs at the ambient temperature of 295 k, determine the rate of entropy production, in kw/k. (b) if the expansion valve were replaced by an adiabatic turbine operating isentropically, what would be the entropy production? compare the results of parts (a) and (b) and discuss.

Researchers determine that the biodiversity in a woodland region is declining. they identify two major threats to the region's biodiversity, a method to address each threat, and the expected outcome of each method. this information is shown in the table. a) reforestation would not benefit many species because most forest species live on the ground. b) reforestation would take the longest time to be effective because trees take several years to grow. c) biological augmentation would benefit only a few species because is is typically not very effective. d) biological augmentation would take less time to ve effective because it targets the majority of prey species.

6–43 a food department is kept at 2128c by a refrigerator in an environment at 308c. the total heat gain to the food department is estimated to be 3300 kj/h and the heat rejection in the condenser is 4800 kj/h. determine the power input to the compressor, in kw and the cop of the refrigerator.