Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #32155
From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Water in Gasoline
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:15:04 -0400
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
David Carter wrote:

My first impression of the technical paper was that the writer was off by an order of magnitude on the amount of water that can and does condense on inside of, for example, Cessna 172 or 182 fuel tanks in humit Gulf Coast areas, with cooling of air during the night, and water condensing out inside the tank.
. . . Of course that is the main reason that "good airmanship" says, "Top off the tanks before putting the plane to bed for the night (or longer)."
. . . However and notwithstanding, there are times when the tanks may not be topped off and then you'll get more water.
 
These comments don't detract from or relate to Barry's excellent "first take" summary.  I'm simply saying I think the author of the paper is way low on his estimates and desensitizes his analysis of effects of condensation of water out of humid air.

I also thought the point that .5% water in the gasoline will only make it .5% less efficient.  Water will act as a quenching agent, throwing the whole engine works off and having a disproportionate effect for it's volume.

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