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Question: In 1997, at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, the major industrial nations agreed to expand their research efforts to develop renewable sources of carbon-based fuels. For more than a decade, Brazil has been engaged in a program to replace gasoline with ethanol derived from the root crop manioc (cassava).

(a) Write separate balanced equations for the complete combustion of ethanol (C2H5OH) and of gasoline (represented by the formula C8H18).

(b) What mass of oxygen is required to burn completely 1.00 L of a mixture that is 90.0% gasoline (d =0.742 g/mL) and 10.0% ethanol (d= 0.789 g/mL) by volume?

(c) If 1.00 mol of O2 occupies 22.4 L, what volume of O2 is needed to burn 1.00 L of the mixture?

(d) Air is 20.9% O2 by volume. What volume of air is needed to burn 1.00 L of the mixture?

Short Answer

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Answer:

  1. The balanced equation for the complete combustion of ethanol and gasoline are, C2H5OHl+3O2g→2CO2g+3H2Ol2C8H18l+25O2g→16CO2g+18H2Ol
  2. The mass of the oxygen gas is 2.51x103 g.
  3. The volume of O2 is 1.76x103 L.
  4. The volume of the air is 8.42x103 L.

Step by step solution

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(a) Reactions 

The balanced equation for the complete combustion of ethanol is,

C2H5OHl+3O2g→2CO2g+3H2Ol

The balanced equation for the combustion of gasoline is,

2C8H18l+25O2g→16CO2g+18H2Ol

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(b) Determination of mass of oxygen

The equation for the complete combustion of ethanol is,

C2H5OHl+3O2g→2CO2g+3H2Ol

The volume of ethanol is,

V=1.00L×10100×1000mL1LV=100.0mL

Now, the mass of oxygen gas using the volume of ethanol is,

=100.0mL×0.789g C2H5OH1mL C2H5OH×1mol C2H5OH46.0g C2H5OH×3mol O21mol C2H5OH×32.0g O21mol O2\hfill=165.0g

The equation for the combustion of gasoline is,

2C8H18l+25O2g→16CO2g+18H2Ol

The volume of gasoline is,

V=1.00L×90100×1000mL1LV=900.0mL

Now, the mass of oxygen gas using the volume of ethanol is,

=900.0mL×0.742g C8H181mL C8H18×1mol C8H18114.0g C8H18×12.5mol O21mol C8H18×32.0g O21mol O2\hfill=2.34×103g

Now, the total mass of the oxygen gas is,

165.0g+2.34×103g=2.51×103g

Thus, the mass of the oxygen gas is 2.51x103 g.

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