Re: [biofuel] Extracting alcohol instead of distilling?

2004-08-23 Thread Ken Provost
on 8/22/04 10:19 AM, jseabolt2002 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my theory. Gasoline and alcohol will mix. Alcohol and water also will mix. But gasoline is lighter than water so it floats and doesn't mix. So does that mean if you took the alcohol/water from the mash and mixed it

[biofuel] Extracting alcohol instead of distilling?

2004-08-22 Thread jseabolt2002
Last night I had an idea. It sounds so simple so there must be a reason why it's not popular. Instead of distilling alcohol why not extract it? I work for a chemical company so I am somewhat familiar with the process of extracting acetic acid from water. Here's my theory. Gasoline and

Re: [biofuel] Extracting alcohol instead of distilling?

2004-08-22 Thread Keith Addison
Hello jseabolt2002 This came up on the list a couple of years back. I haven't done an archive search for it, but you might try it: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ IIRC it doesn't work that way, the water won't part company with the ethanol, but I can't remember why not. Not trying to