Gasifier Experimenters Kit

Biomass Energy Foundation: Methanolmileage went up from 26.8 MPG on gasoline to 28.8 MPGon 15% methanol (a 7% increase), then declined but wasstill drivable.~~~Propane is one of my favorite fuels, because we can shipand store it as a liquid under very modest pressure, but itburns very cleanly because it is a gas at roomtemperature, so that it is easy to mix in proper proportionwith air. Unfortunately, there isn't nearly enough for ourneeds in the oil barrel.An even better fuel closely related to methanol is dimethylether, DME, made by combining two methanol molecules(or directly with a suitable catalyst, according to2 MeOH ==> Me-O-MeDimethly ether boils at -23.6 C, propane at -42.1, so DMEcan be shipped, stored and burned in similar equipment. Itis even easier to make synthetically than methanol.1 Our thanks to the Journal SCIENCE for permission to publish. Pleasenote, "Readers may view, browse and/or download material fortemporary copying purposes only, provided these uses are fornoncommercial personal purposes. Except as provided by law, thismaterial may not be further reproduced, distributed, transmitted,modified, adapted, performed, displayed, published or sold in whole orin part, without prior written permission from the publisher".http://www.woodgas.com/methanol.htm (5 of 5) [10/9/2008 08:23:07]