Saturday, February 14, 2009

Distilling Ethanol - Grain Alcohol (links)

  * The level of interest in using alcohol as a motor fuel has followed cycles of fuel shortages and/or low feed-grain prices.
  * Alcohols burn more completely, thus increasing combustion efficiency.
  * There are many disadvantages to using alcohols, particularly methyl and ethyl alcohol.
  * Advantages of mixing alcohol with gasoline are that alcohol tends to increase the octane rating and reduce carbon monoxide emissions.
  * Alcohols may corrode certain materials used in engines.

  http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/PUBS/FARMMGT/05010.html

  How to modify an injection system: It's Toyota-specific, but applies
  to most electronic fuel injection systems.
  http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Pit/9975/dataBySubject/EFImods.html

  How To Modify Your Car To Run On Alcohol Fuel: "Guidelines for
  converting gasoline engines (With Specific Instructions for
  Air-Cooled Volkswagens)" by Roger Lippman, April 1982 -- Five-chapter
  online book:
  http://alky.home.igc.org/

  How To Adapt Your Automobile Engine For Ethyl Alcohol Use -- Mother
  Earth Alcohol Fuel Manual. Biofuels Library
  http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_motherearth/me2.html

  More info in Mother Earth Alcohol Fuel and The Manual for the Home
  and Farm Production of Alcohol Fuel in the Biofuels Library
  http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library.html

  Distilling Ethanol - The conversion of cellulose, such as sawdust, cornstalks, newspaper and other substances

  Charts on Grain Usage and Exports - University of Maryland http://www.arec.umd.edu/areces/grain/graincharts.htm

  FUEL ETHANOL AND FOOD SUPPLY http://www.greenfuels.org/ethafood.html

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