{"id":153844,"date":"2023-08-01T12:33:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T07:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=153844"},"modified":"2023-08-01T12:33:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T07:03:59","slug":"raw-municipal-solid-waste-msw-collected-from-a-city-contains-70-decomposable-material-that-can-be-converted-to-methane-the-water-content-of-the-decomposable-material-is-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/raw-municipal-solid-waste-msw-collected-from-a-city-contains-70-decomposable-material-that-can-be-converted-to-methane-the-water-content-of-the-decomposable-material-is-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw municipal solid waste (MSW) collected from a city contains 70% decomposable material that can be converted to methane. The water content of the decomposable material is 35%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. Raw municipal solid waste (MSW) collected from a city contains 70% decomposable material that can be converted to methane. The water content of the decomposable material is 35%. An elemental analysis of the decomposable material yields the following mass percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C : H : O : N : other = 44 : 6 : 43 : 0.8 : 6.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The methane production of the decomposable material is governed by the following stoichiometric relation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C<em>a<\/em>H<em>b<\/em>O<em>c<\/em>N<em>d <\/em>+ <em>n<\/em>H2O \u2192 <em>m<\/em>CH4 + <em>s<\/em>CO2 + <em>d<\/em>NH3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given atomic weights: C = 12, H = 1, O = 16, N = 14. The mass of methane produced (in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>grams, round off to 1 decimal place<\/em>) per <em>kg <\/em>of raw MSW will be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Let 1 kg of raw municipal solid waste (MSW) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decomposable material = 70% of 1 kg = 0.7 kg <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water content = 35%\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"395\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-467.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-467.png 395w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-467-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. Raw municipal solid waste (MSW) collected from a city contains 70% decomposable material that can be converted to methane. The water content of the decomposable material is 35%. An elemental analysis of the decomposable material yields the following mass percent. C : H : O : N : other = 44 : 6 : [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":153853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5141],"tags":[5140],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-153844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gate","tag-gate-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153854,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153844\/revisions\/153854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153844"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=153844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}