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Be aware of the effects of lower pressure as you go up in altitude.
Be aware of static charge. Make certain everything is grounded and at the same potential.
I hate to give away this idea, but why not send the Water/Oil along the leading edge of the wing. Now
the Liquid cooling is your friend, and we all can work on developing Anti-Ice. Not Known icing equipment yet, but gets us down the path of this development for the future. All I can think of is a crude idea of a long base board
with fins with water and oil in it. Removable at the end of the wing.
Again the oil and water are made at the same temp so the Rotary is happier without the differential cooling temps.
Mike Zucco
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----- Original Message ----- From: "David Staten" <Dastaten@earthlink.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 6:27 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Heating the Fuel
Bill Dube wrote:
Being an experimentalist type, I would probably slowly warm up a small vented container of AvGas and carefully watch the level as I did so. The temperature at which the level started to change in the container would be the "redline" I would set for the tank temperature.
If you take an open container of gasoline at room temperature and leave it sitting out, without any added heat, the gasoline will vaporize away on its own. It essentially begins this process at nearly -40 degrees F if I remember the quote about vapor pressures earlier. Gasoline in a storage tank has a simple device that lets excess pressure escape without letting the majority of the gas vaporize away.
In any event, I would be VERY careful in conducting this experiment in that one gallon of liquid gas, when vaporized, has the explosive potential of over 30 sticks of dynamite. The vapor collects at the lowest point, and you may not even be aware of potential ignition sources, even if you used a lab quality hot air gun or hot plate.
Dave
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