Propane is also used, but metanol would be more controlable and less volitale.
>From: Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >Subject: [Biofuel] Methanol recovery; >Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:52:11 -0500 > >Hey Tom et al; > >I think I might have a new solution for our woes re. re-use of >methanol. Rather than trying to dry it for re-use in making BD we might >be able to just use it for fuel. This local dude who is way into >performance diesels comes into my place last night to talk about BD >production and when I start talking about recovered methanol he suggests >spraying it into the air intake on the diesel engine. Apparently he >pioneered this idea years ago and now it is common among the tractor >pull crowd. It can have high water content with no problem, in fact he >says they sometimes intentionally add water to methanol when using this >technique to avoid overfueling the engine and yet still getting the >cooling effect that they need when they go for more power and EGT shoots >up to 1500 deg or more. It sounds dead simple to add a spray nozzle to >the air intake and use the recovered methanol for an occasional power >boost. He says it can easily give a 25% power increase. Another plus - >you know how they describe on the TDI club pages about how to take the >intake manifold off and clean all the black crap out so the engine >breathes again? Methanol spray does this for you without taking >anything apart. Sweet! I am looking for the downside to this idea. Can >anyone here think of a reason this might be a bad idea? > >Joe > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 >messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
