[Homestead] Ethanol and Corn

Don Bowen don.bowen at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 11 00:09:13 EDT 2008


Some interesting information from 
http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/pdfs/fueltable.pdf

BTU ratings
Gasoline    116090
Diesel        129050
Methanol    57250
Ethanol        76330
Propane        84500
Natural gas.    19800

The small extra BTUs in Diesel are not entirely why Diesel gets better 
mileage.  Higher compression ratios, lower pumping losses, and controlled 
injection gets more of the available BTUs out.

Don Bowen      KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html 




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