EGEE Exam 1 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

EGEE Exam 1 UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
This is an example of [answer] underground mining (one word expected) - CORRECT
ANSWER - longwall


What combustion method cleans up culm and gob piles? The fuel being upgraded and them
combusted in a - CORRECT ANSWER - fluidized bed boiler


What is the organic material in tar sands? (hint it is not "tar") [answer1] - CORRECT
ANSWER - bitumen



The equipment to haul coal (or tar sand) can be the size of - CORRECT ANSWER - a house



Put the coal ranks in order of maturation - CORRECT ANSWER - lignite
sub bituminous
bituminous
anthracite


What is the organic material in shale (insoluble in a common solvent). One word beginning with
"k" [answer1] - CORRECT ANSWER - Kerogen


What is the material above coal called that is removed, before the coal is extracted, in surface
mining? [answer1] (a one word answer is expected) - CORRECT ANSWER - overburden


Which of these countries have announced the banning of the combustion of coal for power plants
- CORRECT ANSWER - none of these, what is being banned is the combustion of coal in
power plants that are not equipped with carbon capture and storage technology