[Stoves] Burning low quality ethanol

[William Carr]

On Aug 30, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Paul S. Anderson wrote:

> A major
> expense in the production of ethanol for vehicle (IC engine) use is  
> the removal
> of the final percentage of water, which I believe is about 5%.  I  
> suspect that
> exceptionally low quality alcohol might have up to 20% (or more?)  
> water.
>
> Does anyone have information about production of LOW quality ethanol?


Well, as for ethanol, no, but in the more general area of alcohols,  
Butanol is the solution to the problem.    It doesn't have to be  
double-refined to burn well, as ethanol does.

Butanol.com has details.


One reason I don't worry about the construction of ethanol plants  
being wasteful is I think they could be converted to Butanol plants  
fairly easily.