Years ago, when this govt funded = boondoggle first started, I looked into building a still, er, ethanol processing plant. In order to avoid paying taxes, the white lightening, er, = ethanol, had to be immediately denatured. The process of denaturing made = the white lightening, er ethanol, unfit for drinking. This was done by = pouring gasoline in it. The idea was that you could not remove the = gasoline after it was introduced.

If this was good enough for the = Revenuers, I suspect that it would not be possible to remove the alcohol from the = gas as well.

Bill B

From: = Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Mark Steitle
Sent: Friday, May 13, = 2011 3:38 PM
To: Rotary motors in = aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: = 100LL in California

Well, if you don't blow yourself up in the process, you will now = have low octane gas for about $4.50/gallon. Then you'll need a method = to transport it to the airport, then pump/pour it into your fuel tanks, = again without blowing yourself up. From a risk-analysis perspective, it = doesn't wash (pun intended). I just don't see the benefit here. It = would almost be easier to fly to Oklahoma whenever I needed fuel for the airplane.

Mark =

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Ernest Christley <echristley@att.net> = wrote:

Bill Schertz wrote:

Charlie is = right, you can extract the ethanol with water. Best practice would be multiple small = washings to reduce it to a negligible level, but octane would suffer. Also, your = price of auto fuel just went up, because you are sending some down the = drain.

Basically there is a partition coefficient for alcohol between gasoline = and water. Each time you add water, x% moves to the = water.

Thanks, Bill. That chemistry class in college was a LONG time ago = for me.

So, how long will it be before someone starts selling a system that = allows you to put contaminated gasoline in one end, have it add water and then centrifugally separate it, let the clean gasoline go out the other end, = and distill the water to reuse it? The ethanol would drive the = distillation, and the left-over could be mailed to the stupid politicians and lobbiest = that keep adulterating our gasoline. ("Here! You like it so = much, you can have it!")

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