14.3 Exercise 22

(a) It is difficult to extinguish a fire on a crude oil tanker, because each liter of crude oil releases $2 . \text{80} \times \text{10}^{7} \text{J}$ of energy when burned. To illustrate this difficulty, calculate the number of liters of water that must be expended to absorb the energy released by burning 1.00 L of crude oil, if the water has its temperature raised from $\text{20} . 0º \text{C}$ to $\text{100}º \text{C}$, it boils, and the resulting steam is raised to $\text{300}º \text{C}$. (b) Discuss additional complications caused by the fact that crude oil has a smaller density than water.