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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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