[Stoves] Burning low quality ethanol

[frank]

At one time we removed race amounts of water from solvents like benzene 
by adding a cube of sodium metal. I'm not suggesting the water be 
removed using this method (could be explosive) but it may be a way to 
keep the water from entering the alcohol without being too risky.

Frank

William Carr wrote:

>On Aug 30, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Paul S. Anderson wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Does anyone have information about production of LOW quality ethanol?
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>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.
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>Butanol.com has details.
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>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.
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