It is not easy, due to the fact that ethoxide, can't be made by the 
combination of sodium or potassium hydroxide and ethanol, as one does 
with base plus methanol to form methoxide.  It can be done however via 
alternative ways of making the ethoxide:

    K + EtOH --->   K(+) (-)OEt + 1/2 H2

    KH  + EtOH  ---> K(+)  (-)OEt + H2

   (don't try this at home- wildly flammable materials involved)


or for someone with good laboratory skills:

combine EtOH (absolute) + KOH, then distill off 95% Ethanol/5% water 
azeotrope to remove water, shifting the equilibrium to form the ethoxide 
ion.


The problem is that you remove a lot of ethanol to get a small amt of 
water out.  (there are ways to recover absolute ethanol via a ternary 
azeotrope, but I seriously doubt if it is either cost or energy effective.



Kuba-tlen wrote:
> Does anybody know how to do a biofuel usin ethanol? I mean 92% ethanol, 
> not dry ethanol. I've read that it is possible. O maybe somebody knows 
> how to easily dry ethanol?
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