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    Practice Questions – Enthalpy of Combustion of Alkanols

    1 The heat of combustion of ethanol is 1360 kJ mol-1 .

    Assuming 35% of the heat is lost to the atmosphere, what volume of water must have been heated if
    the water temperature is increased from 21°C to 66°C by the burning of 1.57 g of ethanol?

    (A) 148 mL
    (B) 160 mL
    (C) 200 mL
    (D) 246 mL

    2 A spirit burner containing propan-1-ol was used to heat a flask containing 200 mL of water.
    The temperature of the water increased from 22.5°C to 47.0°C.

    The molar heat of combustion for propan-1-ol is 2021 kJ mol-1.

    Given that 30% of the heat generated was lost, the mass of alcohol burned would be closest to:

    (A) 0.87 g
    (B) 0.61 g
    (C) 0.43 g
    (D) 0.17 g
    3 The following table shows data for the properties of four liquid fuels.

    Property Petrol Kerosene Diesel Ethanol

    Heat of Combustion (kJ mol-1) 5,460 10,000 6,716 1,370

    Density (g mL-1) 0.69 0.78 0.85 0.78

    Average molar mass (g mol-1) 114 210 179 46

    The fuel that provides the greatest amount of energy per litre of fuel is:

    (A) Petrol
    (B) Kerosene
    (C) Diesel
    (D) Ethanol

    4 The molar heat of combustion of ethanol is -1367 kJ mol-1.

    Given the density of ethanol is 0.789 g/mL, the heat energy released when 1.5 L of pure ethanol is
    completely combusted is:

    (A) 35.12 kJ
    (B) 44.51 kJ
    (C) 35,119 kJ
    (D) 56,414 kJ

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