Dear Mr. Subramanian, I tried commercial acetone (the one commonly available in India with chemists and used as nail polish remover) in my diesel car @ 0.2% with ordinary diesel. The result as noticed by me under identical conditions of daily commuting was increase in kmpl from 17 to 19.5 . Additional effect noticed was cooler running of the engine and reduction in noise. During highway driving, while overtaking vehicles, I noticed better pick-up (the diesel cars are a bit sluggish as compared to gasoline cars) similar to gasoline cars. A quantitative check could, however be made only in laboratory conditions.
A tip here: the acetone may be premixed with fuel to, say, a 5% or 10% mixture so that while it is being added to the fuel tank, it does not damage the tank hose as it flows down; it does not emit fumes that could be inhaled; the measurement accuracy is better (the quantity to be measured and added to the fuel tank does not remain too small to cause appreciable error) and the possibility of damage to car paint by its accidental spillage is reduced. The 0.2 % addition to fuel is not expected to do any damage to the rubber hoses. However, the risk perception and risk taking is personal in nature and, here also, laboratory tests would be required to establish long term effects. Anyway, I am already proceeding with acetone doped fuel for my car. Y. K. Jain "subramanian D.V" wrote: > Hi , > > Gasolene( petrol ) costs in India about 95 cents a liter, roughly twice of > its price in U.S. And is edging up towards a dollar and more. The possibility > of getting more mileage by mixing with a small dose of acetone came up from a > mail posted in this list. As one of the middle class using a car & trying to > balance my budget I decided to give it a try. Iāve not even asked anybody > else to try and report. > > I only put a harmless query about the difference between commercial acetone > and lab quality acetone and added a footnote whether anybody else has tried > this acetone mix & with what results. I seem to have caused a minor Tsunami. > > If my experiment does not measure upto expectation, I have not hurt anybody > else O.K. > > Thank you all for yr comments. > Regards, > D.V.S > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Plan great trips with Yahoo! Travel: Now over 17,000 guides! > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="jain.yk.vcf" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="jain.yk.vcf" Content-Description: Card for Y. K. JAIN Attachment converted: Handmade:jain.yk.vcf 1 (TEXT/TBB6) (000C0C91) _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
