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Ms.

Wouters MYP3 Sankey and efficiency

Practice problems Sankey diagrams and energy efficiency

1. A kettle produces 1200 J of electrical energy. 800 J of energy is used to heat up


water until it boils. 400 J of energy is wasted as heat to the surroundings.

a. Choose a scale for you


Sankey diagram.

1 square = ______________ J
b. Draw the input energy.
c. Draw the useful output
energy with an arrow
pointing to the right.
d. Draw the wasted energy
with an arrow pointing
down.
2. Below you see the Sankey diagram of a combustion engine in a car per second.
A combustion engine burns fuels like gasoline in order to get things moving.

a. The energy input is 3400 J. From what type of energy does the energy input come?
________________________________________________________________________
b. 850 J are used for mobility of the car and accessories. Name three accessories a car has
that also use energy.
________________________________________________________________________
c. It says 170 J is lost in friction due to movement. In what form of energy is this lost?
________________________________________________________________________
d. What percentage of the energy is wasted energy (not useful)? Show a calculation and
round to one decimal.

e. What is the efficiency of this combustion engine? Show a calculation and round to one
decimal.

f. Combustion engines run of fossil fuel. Name one advantage and one disadvantage of
using fossil fuels.
____________________________________________________________________
September 2024
Ms. Wouters MYP3 Sankey and efficiency

3. On hot days, you can use a tiny hand fan to cool down. A battery supplies 55
Joule every second. 34 J is used to get the fan moving.
a. What forms of energy are converted here?

________________________________________________________________________
b. Calculate the efficiency of the tiny hand fan. Show a calculation and round to one
decimal.

c. To power your tiny fan, you use a new battery and you turn on the fan. You keep it on
continuously, until after exactly 2 hours, 41 minutes and 3 seconds, the battery has run
out of power. How many Joules has the battery supplied in this time?
Show a calculation.

4. Sketch a Sankey diagram AND


calculate the efficiency for a car
engine that has an energy input of
150 J and transforms 70 J of that
energy to kinetic energy for
moving the car, 10 J is wasted as
sound and the rest is turned into
heat.

Efficiency = _______________________%

5. Sketch a Sankey diagram AND calculate the efficiency for a toaster that produces 1800 J of
heat energy for every 2000 J of electrical energy that go in.
(Hint: What type of energy is wasted in this example?)

Efficiency = _______________________%

September 2024

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