The desired gas temperature exiting the flame mixing chamber and entering the reaction chamber of a thermal incinerator is 600oC. The polluted airflow rate is 550 m3/min at 77oC. The fuel gas (methane) is available at 20oC and the flare draws in supplemental air (at 25oC) at a rate of 14 air/kg fuel gas. Calculate the required flow of methane. Ignore the heat losses and heat generation from the pollutant combustion (that part of the flare would be too difficult to predict based on the variable emissions). Give your answer in kg/min and in m3/min

1. the question asks the most appropriate, which seems to rule out "all of the above." your choice appears to be the correct one.

2. the protocol described is good for identifying correlation, but not cause and effect. for cause/effect, you need to devise a protocol that will assign the treatment (or not) to groups that have essentially the same "demographics" with respect to all the other variables. your choice regarding control group seems appropriate. random assignment of treatment (choice d) may be appropriate also. (i think you can argue that b and d are just different descriptions of the same method.)

3. d will randomize the birds, but may not guarantee there are 10 in each group. e will do both, so seems the better choice.

comment on question 2

based on the problem statement, it seems clear that confident, attentive drivers are more likely to use daytime running lights. so, the protocol might need to be devised in such a way that the lights would be turned on or off without the driver's knowledge. (an attentive driver will figure it out.) assigning a confident, attentive driver to a group required to drive without running lights might mess with his/her confidence and attentiveness. you don't want your experiment to do that. (nor do you want the experiment to subject a driver to greater risk of accident as a consequence of driving without running lights.) experiments involving human safety are always problematic.

answer; talc and gypsum;