1.5 Exercise 25

(a) It is difficult to extinguish a fire on a crude oil tanker, because each liter of crude oil releases $2.80 \times 10^{7} \text{J}$ 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’s temperature rises from $20.0 ° \text{C}$ to $100 ° \text{C}$, it boils, and the resulting steam’s temperature rises to $300 ° \text{C}$ at constant pressure. (b) Discuss additional complications caused by the fact that crude oil is less dense than water.