Question

Why are alkanes such as methane and butane used as fuels?

Answer 1

the alkanes are highly combustible and are valuable as clean fuel burning to form water nd carbon dioxide.methane nd butane r gases and used directly as fuel.....hope this will help u

Answer 2

Alkanes are saturated hydrocarbon compounds which contains carbon-carbon single covalent bonds.

Alkanes are used as fuels because :

⇒ They have high calorific value .

⇒ They are easily combustible .

⇒ The reactions are highly exothermic releasing a lot of energy.

Hence they are excellent fuels.