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![]() T o d d P a t t i s t wrote: "Sport Pilot" wrote: Alcohol is completly soluable in gasoline, in fact adding a small amount of gasoline to model airplane fuel is sometimes done to improve starting and increase engine heat during the winter. The confusion is that you can also mix water gas and alcohol and have the three completely disolve. So why didn't the water disolve into the gas and alcohol mixture? A typical gasoline-alcohol automotive fuel blend can dissolve water up to only about 0.6 or 0.7% at 70°F. Beyond this the water forms a separate layer and the alcohol preferably is dissolved in that layer. Has anybody verfied that this method works all the time? I have a hunch the rusults can vary depending on vibration and temperature. If the maximum 0.6 or 0.7% water/gas/ethanol blend at 70°F is cooled, both the water and some of the ethanol become insoluble in the gas. The result is two layers of liquid - an upper ethanol-deficient gasoline layer and a lower ethanol-rich (about 75% ethanol) water layer. If more water is added, the lower layer of water increases in volume and continues to preferentially dissolve the ethanol. The test method uses 10% water, far more than the maximum that can be dissolved in the gas/ethanol blend, so it always forms two layers and sucks the alcohol out of the gas. Do not spin this aircraft. If the aircraft does enter a spin it will return to earth without further attention on the part of the aeronaut. (first handbook issued with the Curtis-Wright flyer) Todd, So what your saying is that if you have ethanol rich gasoline, just add water and shake and what your left with is gasoline without ethanol. Sounds like a good way to purify gasoline. Dave |
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