I want to use sugarcane, corn to make ethanol fuel for my cars. The people offering prebuilt still look great...but they are very expensive for me. I need to be able to make small amounts-one or two gallons at a time. Can anyone help me to build one? Ideally, it must be very inexpensive and easy to acquire. Can anyone build me one at a low cost?
2006-10-18 15:28:56 · 3 answers · asked by mykyee2000 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Try this website. There's a company in TN that sells "personal stills" just for this sort of thing.
Note --> You better be a good Chemist otherwise you can produce impurities (olefins, gums, oligomers) that can plug up your engine. You certainly won't save money that way.
I'm a Ph.D. Chemist and I wouldn't bother with making my own ethanol. It's too hard to do and the risks of destroying your engine are too high.
2006-10-18 15:39:01 · answer #1 · answered by The ~Muffin~ Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ethanol production starts with a sugar-containing liquid, like juices from overwhelmed corn, sugarcane, and so on. Then the liquid is fermented. this is precisely the approach used to make alcohol for eating. Yeast is further, which converts the sugar into alcohol. often the alcohol isn't concentrated very plenty after this step, and the answer could desire to be distilled with a view to get intense concentrations (on the factor of a hundred%) had for use as a gasoline. needless to say there are some questions despite if or no longer the production of ethanol for a gasoline is a competent theory - yet that's no longer what you asked, is it? :)
2016-12-08 17:10:52 · answer #2 · answered by deibert 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw one online once, but theguy wanted $500 just for the directions to make it. Google ethanol still, you will gets lots of hits, maybe one will work for you.
2006-10-18 15:37:32 · answer #3 · answered by Flower Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋