Power Resources of Pakistan

How many are different types of coal according to grade and quality which is determined by their carbon content.

• peat

• Anthracite

• Bituminous 4. Peat

• Lignite

• All of them.

This coal is burnt to produce coke, it is hard, grey and porous ,material. It is used in blast furnaces for the extraction of iron from iron ore.

• steam coal

• coking coal

• bituminous

• lignite

• coking coal

Lignite is mostly found in Pakistan.

• It is found near the surface and easier to mine. It is a low quality coal with a high moisture and ash content. It has a low heating value.

• It is exclusively vegetative matter and represent the initial stage of coal formation.

• This coal is burnt to produce coke, it is hard, grey and porous ,material. It is used in blast furnaces for the extraction of iron from iron ore.

• It is exclusively vegetative matter and represent the initial stage of coal formation.

• It is found near the surface and easier to mine. It is a low quality coal with a high moisture and ash content. It has a low heating value.

Give four main uses of oil.

Give two reason on the importance of location of Karachi Bin Qasim, oil refinery near the coast.

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Why does coal only supply 4% of the energy supply in Pakistan?

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What is crude oil?

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Name the Quetta coal fields and one of the mining centres there.

State two ways in which refined oil can be transported in Pakistan and give an advantage and disadvantages of each.

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Name two environmentally-friendly ways of making electricity other than hydro-electric power.