This should start a lively Conversation

[cycledog]

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ine-12697.html

 

[Tripper]

Ummmm... WHY!?

 

[FlatBroke]

Am I understanding this guy right, he is trying to remove the ethanol from the Gas that he buys at the pump?
If that be the case, hats off to him, but I think he is missing the point about the whole reason for ethanol being put in in the first place...

Whatever floats his boat.

 

[CR55]

Very bizzare conversation from the ethanol remover... if he's so energy conscious why doesn't he get vehicles that have much better mileage ratings? And I wonder what he does with the contaminated water after he's done with it??????...CR

 

[FlatBroke]

I would like to be able to "Distill" my own fuel, kind of like the old "Shine Runners" used to do. I did check in to it several months ago. Still playing with the idea.

 

[Torch]

He's talking about only getting 45 mpg when he used to get 60... I don't know how much better a car he can find.
By washing the gas he isn't just removing ethanol he's removing other water absorbed into the gas.
When they make veg oil into bio diesel it can be as much as 20% water before they wash it.
Yes oil and water do not mix but detergents suspend water in the oil.
essentially they wash the detergent out of the diesel and it can no longer hold the water in suspension.
There has been a big controversy in the trucking industry of certain distributors selling hot fuel without having the pumps calibrated to measure gallons at the decreased density. Also a controversy about strong detergents being added to diesel fuel to stretch the diesel with water.
ethanol doesn't just contain less btu than gas or diesel, it contains water. since it burns slower and has a lower flash point, it damps preignition.

Normally in a gas or diesel engine the fuel and air are burned to produce carbon dioxide and steam from the combination of hydrogen and oxygen molecules. introducing small amounts of water into the process by it being in the fuel doesn't stop the process but that water is taking up space that belonged to fuel. and you get charged fuel price for that water.

I used to think they ethanol was eating up my fuel lines and gas cap gaskets but they are getting eaten up from the outside in. I think the cheap rubber isn't properly vulcanized and is just oxidizing

 

[anvil]

I go to a farm store or town grange and I get just gas nothing added.
So I can add my own water.

 

[cantwell.colton]

but -- i maybe wrong but -- the easy answer to his question is yes... water is not something you want in your gas though -- the water thats ending up in the tank will either settle to the bottom of his tank or somewhere in his engine -- either way its not "good" for your engine ...

 

[rainman]

If I had the energy to do all that I'd walk!![ddev

 

[26Troadster]

when i was 16 (in da 70's) i worked at a gulf station, and there was elt. in the gas then, don't remember how much but it was there, i remember my boss talking about it. so i guess we have been running it for years and most didn't know it. hell i would like to build a still and make some for racing.

 

[Rust in peace]

I was looking at one of these the last time gas went sky high.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=backyard-ethanol-brewers

Don