9701_w12_qp_23
A paper of Chemistry, 9701
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Carbon dioxide, CO2, makes up about 0.040 % of the Earth’s atmosphere. It is produced by animal respiration and by the combustion of fossil fuels. In animal respiration, oxygen reacts with a carbohydrate such as glucose to give water, carbon dioxide and energy. The typical daily food requirement of a human can be considered to be the equivalent of 1.20 kg of glucose, C6H12O6. You should express all of your numerical answers in this question to three signifi cant fi gures. Construct a balanced equation for the complete oxidation of glucose. Use your equation to calculate the amount, in moles, of CO2 produced by one person in one day from 1.20 kg of glucose. On the day on which this question was written, the World population was estimated to be 6.82 × 109. Calculate the total mass of CO2 produced by this number of people in one day. Give your answer in tonnes. [1 tonne = 1.00 ×106 g] For Examiner’s Use When fossil fuels are burned in order to give energy, carbon dioxide and water are also produced. The hydrocarbon octane, C8H18, can be used to represent the fuel burned in motor cars. A typical fuel-effi cient motor car uses about 4.00 dm3 of fuel to travel 100 km. Construct a balanced equation for the complete combustion of octane. The density of octane is 0.700 g cm–3. Calculate the amount, in moles, of octane present in 4.00 dm3 of octane. Calculate the mass of CO2 produced when the fuel-effi cient car is driven for a distance of 100 km. Calculate how many kilometres the same fuel-effi cient car would have to travel in order to produce as much CO2 as is produced by the respiration of 6.82 × 109 people during one day. Use your answer to . Carbon dioxide is one of a number of gases that are responsible for global warming. When fossil fuels such as octane are burned in a car engine, other atmospheric pollutants are also produced. Give the formula of one atmospheric pollutant that may be produced in a car engine, other than CO2, and state how this pollutant damages the environment. pollutant damage caused
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For Examiner’s Use Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe, although on Earth only very small quantities of molecular hydrogen have been found to occur naturally. Hydrogen is manufactured on a large scale for use in the chemical industry and is also regarded as a possible fuel to replace fossil fuels in internal combustion engines. State one large scale use of hydrogen in the chemical industry. One common way of producing hydrogen on a large scale for use in the chemical industry is by the steam ‘reforming’ of methane (natural gas), in which steam and methane are passed over a catalyst at 1000–1400 K to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen. CH4+ H2OCO+ 3H2∆H = +206 kJ mol–1 Use the information above to state and explain the effect on the equilibrium position of the following changes. increasing the pressure applied to the equilibrium decreasing the temperature of the equilibrium What will be the effect on the rate of the reaction of increasing the pressure at which it is carried out? Explain your answer. For Examiner’s Use Further hydrogen can be obtained by the ‘water-gas shift’ reaction in which the carbon monoxide produced is reacted with steam. CO+ H2OCO2+ H2Kc = 6.40 × 10–1 at 1100 K A mixture containing 0.40 mol of CO, 0.40 mol of H2O, 0.20 mol of CO2 and 0.20 mol of H2 was placed in a 1 dm3 fl ask and allowed to come to equilibrium at 1100 K Give an expression for Kc for this reaction. Calculate the amount, in moles, of each substance present in the equilibrium mixture at 1100 K. CO+ H2OCO2+ H2initial moles 0.40 0.40 0.20 0.20
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