COVENTIONAL RESOURCES

A non-renewable resource or conventional source is a natural resource that cannot be re-made or re-grown at a scale comparable

to its consumption.

NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES

COAL

•Coal from the Fushun mine in northeastern China was used to smelt copper as early as 1000 BCE.•Marco Polo, the Italian who traveled to China in the 13th century, described coal as "black stones ... which burn like logs", and said coal was so plentiful, people could take three hot baths a week.•In Europe, the earliest reference to the use of coal as fuel is from the geological treatise On stones (Lap. 16) by the Greek scientist Theophrastus (circa 371–287 BC)

LPG•Liquefied petroleum gas is composed of the group of light hydrocarbons, the most well-known of which are propane and butane.•LPG is obtained through processing crude oil, from natural sources of propane and through the distillation of natural gas.•The use of gas is even more economical, since switching to this energy source is financed by the state through favourable loans.

1. The top most use of LPG is to use as the main fuel for vehicles. It burns better than diesel or petrol and hence, the top most use for LPG is to use it as ignition fuel.

2. LPG is also popularly used as a refrigerant.

3. LPG is also used as a chemical feedstock.

4. Apart from being used as a motor fuel, it is also a great fuel used for other purposes.

5. LPG is also used for agricultural purposes in drying processes.

6. As a great industrial fuel, LPG is also used in solution heating processes.

•Uranium is a very heavy metal which can be used as an abundant source of concentrated energy. •Uranium occurs in most rocks in concentrations of 2 to 4 parts per million and is as common in the Earth's crust as tin, tungsten and molybdenum. Uranium occurs in seawater, and can be recovered from the oceans. •Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth, a German chemist, in the mineral called pitchblende. It was named after the planet Uranus, which had been discovered eight years earlier.

NUCLEAR FUEL

•Uranium was apparently formed in supernovas about 6.6 billion years ago. While it is not common in the solar system, today its slow radioactive decay provides the main source of heat inside the Earth, causing convection and continental drift. •The high density of uranium means that it also finds uses in the keels of yachts and as counterweights for aircraft control surfaces, as well as for radiation shielding.•Uranium has a melting point of 1132°C. The chemical symbol for uranium is U.

•Compressed natural gas, or CNG, is natural gas under pressure which remains clear, odorless, and non-corrosive. •CNG is made by compressing natural gas (which is mainly composed of methane, CH4), to less than 1 percent of the volume it occupies at standard atmospheric pressure. •The cost and placement of fuel storage tanks is the major barrier to wider/quicker adoption of CNG as a fuel

NATURAL GAS

•Traditionally, natural gas has been a seasonal fuel. That is, demand for natural gas is usually higher during the winter, partly because it is used for heat in residential and commercial settings.• Stored natural gas plays a vital role in ensuring that any excess supply delivered during the summer months is available to meet the increased demand of the winter months. •It is stored and distributed in hard containers at a pressure of 20–25 MPa , usually in cylindrical or spherical shapes.

•Natural gas is produced both worldwide and domestically at relatively low cost and is cleaner burning than gasoline or diesel fuel. Natural gas vehicles show an average reduction in ozone-forming emissions of 80 percent compared to gasoline vehicles.•CNG vehicles have been introduced in a wide variety of commercial applications, from light-duty trucks and sedans - like taxi cabs, to medium-duty trucks - like UPS delivery vans and postal vehicles, to heavy-duty vehicles like transit buses, street sweepers (pictured right) and school buses.

ADVANTAGES OF NATURAL GAS

•Natural gas is a versatile energy source. It has many applications in our daily lives including:domestic uses like home heating and cooling, cooking, fuel for transportationsteam heat productionelectrical generationmanufacturing and industrial uses like producing steel, glass, forest products, clothing, cement, fertilizer and petrochemicalscreating polyethylene polymers, which is the most widely used plastic

•The performance of the car is reduced significantly. On an average CNG users experience a crash of about 10% in performance.•The storage space is eaten up badly. CNG tanks are easily the size of a large bag, so boot space is reduced or removed entirely as the fuel storage tank takes up all the room.•Availability is not as widespread as regular gas stations. Within the city users probably have a list of stations that fall in their route, but beyond that it is an uncertainty. 

DISADVANTAGES OF NATURAL GAS

DISADVANTAGES OF NON- RENEWABLE RESOURCES•The Disadvantages of

Conventional Energy sources are: Very costly production cost. Heavy transmission & distribution loss. Limited reach. Big threat for environment & public health. Cause of global warming, greenhouse effect, acid rain etc. Uncertainty in availability. Electricity tariff is increasing at about 8 to 10% p.a. on an average

As you know , there are many viable alternate sources of energy that we can and should use to supply our energy needs other than fossil fuels and coal. If we are going take global warming seriously. Even though these alternate sources of energy may be more expensive than using fossil fuels and coal now, they are getting cheaper, and in the long run, the cost of continuing to release carbon emissions into the air, with our current energy infrastructure, will be much more costly than using alternate sources of energy. So we should invest in alternate sources of energy now so that we can lessen the blow of global warming on the world in the future

CONCLUSION

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Created by Shipra,Paarth, Sarthak, Anmol,

Sarvesh