Butanol as the nex gen fuel

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by alexander

according to this, it may have been, but its unlikely:


you can see that one of the products produced by the plant are butanes, though it is more likely that what you were getting was the condensate, because it is refined out at the well, the condensate that is sent to the oil refineries is actually natural gasoline:

It wasn't all that great as gasoline, it caused the valves to rattle and damaged engines that ran it for very long. I saw motorcycles (two stroke) with holes burned in the top of the pistons from it. It also had a distinctive odor, you could always tell when some one was running it from the smell of the exhaust. Some people mixed it with real gasoline and had a better out come from it.

[alexander]

yeah that sounds like the unrefined natural gasoline...

Butanol has a very sistinct and strong alcohol odor, if you can't remember that it was alcohol, it's likely to be the condensate...