Received-SPF: none
 receiver=logan.com; client-ip=98.139.44.156; envelope-from=ceengland@bellsouth.net
Message-ID: <4DCC287E.7080105@bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 13:35:42 -0500
From: Charlie England <ceengland@bellsouth.net>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: 100LL in California
References: <list-4981752@logan.com>
In-Reply-To: <list-4981752@logan.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Getting it out is simple; just add water. Then shake. Then sump the 
water. But you wouldn't want to use the result in any engine except a 
rotary; the octane just went down several points.  Some of the octane 
enhancers are replaced by alcohol when it's in the mix.

Charlie


On 5/12/2011 12:42 PM, H & J Johnson wrote:
> Has anyone looked at methods to get the ethanol back out of gas?  I'm thinking there must be some type of process. I know
> in making bio-diesel they 'wash' the fluid and then run it through seperators [or let it settle] to get the water back out. It sounds
> crazy but would it not be possible to do something similar w/ gas? I'm thinking some kind of little contained setup that a guy
> could dump is 5Gal can into, it runs through and seperates off the two. The ethanol could get disposed [I dunno.. in the lawn
> mower?] and the gas is off to the plane?  IIRC [not tested personally] we are the same in Central Canada in that the higher
> octane stuff doesn't have ethanol in it.
>
> Would misting water into gasoline allow it to combine w/ the ethanol [I know it sounds totally crazy :) ] ??
>
> I know water will suspend in Jet fuel, is gasoline the same in that it can/will hold water in suspension? If you know how much
> water you put in [vs volume of fuel] and you know the rated ethanol percentage, you can calculate if your getting all the water/ethanol
> back out or not.
>
> Just thinking out loud at this point... :)
>
> Jarrett Johnson
> www.innovention-tech.com
>