How many moles of oxygen are produced per day for one person who requires the emergency breathing device?

Sodium peroxide is sometimes used in emergency breathing devices on submarines since the compound will react with carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and sodium carbonate. Answer the following questions if we assume that one person produces about 10.0 moles of carbon dioxide in a 24 hour period.





2Na2O2(s) + 2CO2(g)  2Na2CO3(s) + O2(g)





How many moles of oxygen are produced per day for one person who requires the emergency breathing device?





How many grams of sodium peroxide are required to remove 10.0 moles of carbon dioxide?

How many moles of oxygen are produced per day for one person who requires the emergency breathing device?
the ratio between CO2 and O2 is 2 : 1


Moles O2 = 5.00


20 moles Na2O2 needed =%26gt; 20 x 78 g/mol = 1560 g
Reply:FYI NaCO2 is no longer used on US submarines.





LiOH and NaC2 are used for emergency scrubbing now.





NaCO2 was used in OBA (Rebreathing technology) but have now been discontinued.





I know the spirit of the question, but just wanted to add my two sense.