Martin Klingensmith wrote: > > I believe benzene is used. Maybe they use something else now but I think > benzene is carcinogenic. > > --- John Venema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anybody know how to blend ethanol and diesel like E95 (oxygenated > > Diesel). Or to put it in another way: what is the secret of the 5% additive. > > This additive must be very powerful. > > > > ===== > -Martin Klingensmith > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > http://devzero.ath.cx/ > http://www.nnytech.net/
As for Benzene: [More excerpts impart] Fuels and Society C: 21. Impact on Fuels Petroleum Modifications: The first and most obvious way to make up the octane deficiency after a lead phase out was to further change refinery operations and increase the amount of aromatic constituents in the gasoline. BTX compounds (benzene, toluene and xylene) increased to more than 20% in the gasoline in the 1970's. ---snip--- This is very much akin to simply adding benzene, as T.A. Boyd recommended in 1922. Its health effects are not as severe as lead, but they are significant, according to a World Bank study. While 5,000 Americans died every year as a result of heart disease from lead, some 47 people developed cancer from the use of benzene as a lead replacement. ãThe health impacts of aromatics are several orders of magnitude less than that of lead,ä the World Bank told a Nation magazine reporter. Today's hydrocarbon fuel composition depends to a great extent on the catalytic processes invented by Dr. John Sinfelt at Esso Research in the 1960's. More> http://chemcases.com/converter/converter-21.htm Fuels and Society C: 23. Reformulated Gasolines [quanity of benzene by volume/percent chart] Gasoline, Gasohol, MTBE blends and RFG http://chemcases.com/converter/converter-23.htm Fuels and Society: 11. Alcohol Fuel as a Replacement The growing demand for gasoline and the potential shortage of oil was one reason alcohol fuel was seen as a possible replacement. Another important reasons was that it would keep cars on the road if there were an emergency (which made Detroit happy) and that it would create a new market for agricultural products (which made farmers happy). More> http://chemcases.com/fuels/fuels-11.htm Copyright 2001, Laurence I. Peterson and Matthew E. Hermes College of Science and Mathematics Kennesaw State University 1000 Chastain Rd. Kennesaw, GA 30114 http://chemcases.com/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
