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This document covers fossil fuel fundamentals with a focus on coal within EGEE 101, including formation, extraction, usage, and environmental impacts. It explains how coal contributes to energy production and its role within broader fossil fuel systems. The material is intended to help students understand non-renewable energy sources and their environmental and sustainability implications as part of the course curriculum.

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EGEE 101 – Fossil Fuel Overview and Coal – Energy and Environmental
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Which of the following processes does NOT happen in the global carbon cycle? - ANS ✔✔Glucose is
formed during the decay process.

Fossil fuels are formed due to the interruption of the decay process in the carbon cycle. - ANS ✔✔true

The starting point of the formation of fossil fuels is the transformation of decaying organic matter to
kerogen. - ANS ✔✔true

Which of the following contributes to the formation of kerogen? - ANS ✔✔algae, micro-organisms,
trees

Kerogen derived from higher plants gets converted to crude oil and natural gas when buried inside the
earth for millions of years. - ANS ✔✔false

Kerogens are formed by the transformation of inorganic matter into an insoluble, polymeric material -
ANS ✔✔false

Kerogen formed from algae or plankton is derived from - ANS ✔✔fats, oils, waxes

Kerogen produced from higher plants gets converted into natural gas. - ANS ✔✔false

What is necessary for the fossil fuel formation? - ANS ✔✔temperature, pressure, time

Kerogens are produced from algae, planktons and higher plants with the help of decomposition by
bacteria. - ANS ✔✔true

How many hydrogen atoms are present in coal for one carbon atom? - ANS ✔✔0.8

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