why do treated fuel with Ethanol?
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Ethanol increases the Octane rating of a fuel without the problems of some of the other things they put in to do so (tetra-ethyl lead or its various carcenogenic replacements) as well as being grown in the country where it is being sold (instead of shipped from countries which provide funding for terrorists).\n\nEthanol also tends to burn a bit cleaner than most of the other stuff in petrol although it does reduce fuel economy slightly.
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Hemp is a energy crop. This means that it isn't a fuel itself, but is good for making energy products. \n\nThe better of Industrial Hemp seed lines produce as much seed as corn by dry weight. Industrial Hemp can produce more cellulose than corn can hope to. It is in the range of crops grown for cellulose. All of those crops can reach above 10 tons an acre per 4 month growing season under the correct conditions. Cellulose can be used for ethanol, biodiesel, coal replacement, etc.  \n\nIn that respect it isn't better than other crops. It is much the same as most good types of energy crops. They all have their ups and downs. However among energy crops, hemp is the only one that has 10,000 plus current other uses.\n\nAs to what is the best solution. \n\nButanol is the most ideal. It is almost as powerful as today's petro fuels, and it can be used in direct replacement of all current gasoline engines. The downside is that it lacks a biofuel industry to make it. There is only one company that is building a pilot production facility. The current butanol industry reforms it from petroleum. In a dozen year I hope this will change greatly as there is much interest in this.      \nYou will have to check out http://www.butanol.com/ for info. \n\nEthanol is plausible. Unfortunately the oil industry has done its best to turn public opinion against ethanol and is succeeding. Because of that I doubt the industry will ever reach the levels needed to replace gasoline. It is possible however.
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Pure dry Ethanol (Ethyl alcohol) boils at 78.5 degrees C.  This is a little higher than the typical 78.3 °C or 78.4 °C reported in many older texts.\n\nIf you are talking about a still, Ethanol forms a constant-boiling mixture, or azeotrope, with water that contains 95% ethanol and 5% water and that boils at 78.15°C
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An interesting site talking about ethanol:\n\nhttp://e85.whipnet.net/ethanol.faq/make.ethanol.html
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any fuel that carries some oxgen with burn clean, such as most Alcohol.\n\nBut depents on what you are burning it with, and what your detection limits are, very diffcult to burn something else withe Alcohol and not leave any residue.\n\nOnly buring the Alcohol all  by itself that you may not leave any residue.
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sugars + yeast + water = ethanol ;I wouldn't drink it though unless you know what you are doing. There is always the possibility of methanol contamination that's the reason for distillation. IF YOU DRINK IT YOU COULD GO BLIND!!!
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Ethanol is not the long term answer,  It actually takes more energy to produce ethanol that what is gotten from it.  Also a higher percentage of mix, say 50%, would require a major change in car design as ethanol does deteriorate the rubber parts of your engine.  If you are using ethanol now in your car you should have things like gaskets, pcv valve, fuel injectors, and the like checked very often.
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some in the US are working on conversions from gasoline to ethanol and even mixing the two together, some gas stations have pumps for both, some cars can run on either or, or a mixture\nethanol can be made from corn, and other grains
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I understand that the compound in question is soluble in both pet. ether and ethanol. The reason why pet. ether is preferred must be to do with the volatility of pet. ether. \n\nYou can easily evaporate pet. ether, which is why this is preferred over ethanol. \n\nThanks.
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The most recent spike in prices is due to the elimination of MTBE as an oxidiant in gasoline. The rules protecting the seller from lawsuite over MTBE change on May 5. There is a serious concern there might not be sufficient ethanol to make up for the MTBE loss.
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ethanol and oil\nwater and chloroform
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Make a small scale ethanol still.  Lots of instructions on the net.  Kind of a hot topic with all the discussion of alternative fuels.
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Ethanol/SD Alcohol 40\nMonoethanolamine (MEA)\nSodium borate decahydrate (borax)\nSodium hydroxide
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Depending on how much ethanol spilled. Ethanol is the same alcohol that is in wine, beer and liquor. Spilling\na significant amount in water will make the occupants drunk.\nSpilling a really significant could make them dead.\n\nAs far as ethanol giving off less CO2 than burning gasoline - it may give less. However, there is a tremendous quantity of CO2 given off in the fermentation process. I am curious whether there is any real green-house gas advantage.
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get the book "forget the gas pumps - make your own fuel" by jim wortham and barbara whitener. it explains very simply how to make ethanol from corn, but i believe the process would be the same.
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Ethanol is an alcohol made from renewable  resources such as corn and other cereal grains, food and other beverage wastes  and forestry by-products. Ethanol-blended fuel substantially reduces carbon  monoxide and volatile organic compound emissions, which are precursors to  ozone.Â  The corn-based substance is added to gasoline blends to meet oxygenate  level requirements mandated by the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and to raise the octane level.
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Ethane is nonpolar.  Ethanol has a polar hydroxyl group which can form hydrogen bonds with water.