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well diesel if different. Diesel is a potentially very THICK fuel that greatly changes in viscosity with temperature.
Sorry to revive a somewhat old topic but my curiosity is peaking ESPECIALLY now that I fully read the post about BOILING TEMPS.
how safe is gasoline at 180' ?
I ask because I am wondering if heating gasoline to 180' might be a much easier way to REMOVE ethanol from the gasoline especially now that they want to goto E15 and I will be Forced to wash my gas to remove the ethanol.
Another thought on heating. People say 14.7 to 1
that is not relevant here since that is 14.7 to 1 BY VOLUME
do it by MASS and its not even a close comparison gasoline is by far the key element here. That 1 part gasoline is going to far out mass the 14.7 parts air.
it takes energy joules to "heat" anything.
before you can BURN gasoline you must first expend energy to "heat" the fuel to the point where it vaporizes and you can burn it.
IE some of your engines energy is wasted in HEATING the fuel to the point where you can burn it effectively.
the hotter the fuel going in the less energy you waste.
also the COOLER the fuel the richer your car runs. the ratio is 14.7 to 1 BY VOLUME but how much "mass" of fuel that is in that 1 part is different at 0' and 90' and 175'
I have no idea of the REAL math behind all of this - this is just my "gut check" on it.
thoughts.
one concern I would have is all those vapors going back to the gas tank increasing the pressure their. How much? How dangerous? How Polluting?
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