We are trying to determine the efficiency of unleaded gasoline, pure ethanol, 10% ethanol, B20, and B100 (using Jatropha biofuel). Most likely, we will try to use a basic self built calorimeter to test for how long the fuels burn, how quickly they reach their maximum heat (and what that maximum heat is), the time it takes to reach its flash point, and the overall heat/energy produced. How should we go about with this experiment? How could we build our own calorimeter? How much fuel should we be burning (we were thinking about 250ml but that might be a bit dangerous...)? Are there any other important sources of fuel that we should be including in our tests? We also wanted to try and test for the negative emissions, but that might be hard. Do you have any idea of how we could measure these emissions (CO2, nitrogen, sulfur, etc)?
2006-11-05
13:19:11
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