Charles 803 Column Reflux Ethanol Still Plans
Robert Warren's - Charles 803 Reflux Fuel Still
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Warren's 40 page ethanol still fabrication/assembly guide-
A fourth-generation "Charles 803" true biogas column reflux still - fabrication and assembly pdf guide
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Charles 803 Ethanol Still Blueprints - Included!
The Charles 803 alcohol still will allow you to take advantage of the opportunity to produce your own ethanol fuel.
With fuel prices souring, you can venture into ethanol distillation to achieve relief from big-oil companies by producing your own ethanol fuel. Building an ethanol fuel still will help you achieve energy independence to control your budget and sidestep ever rising fuel costs.
As a survivalist or homesteader, you can produce your own “alcohol fuel” at home to power your vehicles, lawn mower, tractor, generator, and much more.
Benefits of using alcohol as a biofuel
- Grain alcohol (ethanol) is a renewable energy source.
- Minimal carbon footprint
- Pollution free - products of combustion are water and co2.
- Inexpensive to produce
- Corn, grain, mash, it's all products found around the farm!
- By-products of fuel production have other uses
- According to William Jay Hale it takes 56 lbs of mixed grain to make 5 gallons of “farmer’s alcohol.” This leaves 26 lbs of leftover mash that contains more nutritional value than in the original grain! Animals fed this leftover “by product” gain weight more rapidly than others fed only straight grain.
- Corn for fuel, your car can run cooler, faster, and better!
Charles 803 Fuel Still Plans Information
- Includes detailed 40 page manual/instructions for building the still.
- PDF blueprints are super easy to read.
Additional Suggested Reading/Documentation
- A Practical Handbook on the Distillation of Alcohol from Farm Products by F.B. Wright
- Denatured Industrial Alcohol by Rufus Herrick
- Form TTB F 5110.74 (in .pdf format) application to permit ethanol production
- TTB.gov Information for Specially Denatured Spirits Applicants
- Distillation of alcohol fuel
- Energy balance of ethanol
- Ethanol Basics
- Ethanol chemistry
- Ethanol E85 Properties
- Ethanol fuel reference guide
- Ethanol industrial requirements
The Benefits of E85 (Flex Fuel Vehicles)
E85 (or flex fuel) is a term that refers to high-level ethanol-gasoline blends containing 51% to 83% ethanol, depending on geography and season. Like gasoline and diesel fuel, E85 and other ethanol-petrol blends are adjusted seasonally and geographically to ensure proper starting and performance.
E-85 flex fuel cars that are being manufactured today can run on 85% ethanol with no modifications. Onboard computers automatically adjusts to the fuel being used.
Flex-fuel vehicle (FFV) offer fuel economy advantages that lower fuel costs, and support greenhouse gas reductions.
Standard Ethanol Blend Fuel Specs
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D5798-20 Standard Specification for Ethanol
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| Property | ASTM Method | Class 1 | Class 2 | Class 3 | Class 4 |
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| Vapor Pressure, psi | D4953 or D5191 | 5.5-9.0 | 7.0-9.5 | 8.5-12.0 | 9.5-15.0 |
| Ethanol Content, vol% | D5501 | 51-83 | |||
| Methanol, vol% | D5501 | 0.5, maximum | |||
| Sulfur, mg/kg | D5453 or D7039 | 80, maximum | |||
| Acidity, mass% | D7795 | 0.005, maximum | |||
| Unwashed gum, mg/100mL | D381 | 20, maximum | |||
| pHe | D6423 | 6.5-9.0 | |||
| Inorganic Chloride, ppmw | D7319 or D7328 | 1, maximum | |||
| Water, mass% | E203, E1064, or D7923 | 1.0, maximum | |||
Other than lower miles per gallon, motorists driving FFVs will see little difference when using E85 versus gasoline. Depending on the actual ethanol content, E85 has less energy per gallon than gasoline to varying degrees (the impact on fuel economy lessens as the ethanol content decreases).
E85 Petrol Gas Stations
There are more than 4,100 public E85 gas stations across the country that offer high-level ethanol blends to the nearly 21 million FFVs on U.S. roadways. Find E85 fueling station locations at Alternative Fuels Data Center.
Feed it homegrown fuel! “The fuel of the future is going to come from apples, weeds, sawdust — almost anything. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.
Did you know the original Model T made by Henry Ford was designed to run on alcohol? Henry Ford expected that ethanol made from renewable biological materials would be the major automobile fuel. Here is a quote by Mr. Ford:
Sadly, with the advancement of cheap petroleum products and intense lobbying efforts by “oil barons” alcohol fuel was abandoned in favor of “better” petroleum products.
Resources
- ethanolpro.tripod.com/
- http://running_on_alcohol.tripod.com/index.html