[Stoves] Heat Content of Ethanol Gel

[Paul S. Anderson]

Quoting Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <crispinpigott at gmail.com>:  (snipped)

>
> I have been working on a formula to calculate the heat content (LHV) of
> ethanol gel.

> There are large differences in the claimed heat content of ethanol.

> PO = (Mi-Mf)*16/18,000 = Kw       [what has been used]
>
> PO = (Mi-Mf)*16/1,157 to get the correct answer for 5% water,   [What 
> Crispin has calculated ]

> It is out by a factor of more than 15

Wow!!!!!!!!

Sorry I cannot assist with the numbers.  And I am not even sure where 
the 18,000
came from or the 1,157.

Can you tell us how long this massive discrepency has been around, and what
impact it has had on prior evaluations of ethanol gel projects and their
funding?

Do you know if this type of error has been around in relation to the LIQUID
ethanol calculations?

And thanks to Tom M. for putting this to the Internet at
See http://www.bioenergylists.org/en/crispingelfuel

I hope some of the ethanol enthusiasts can shed more light on this.

Paul





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