How do they make ethonal (fuel)?

Question

What is the prosses and can I do it at home

Answer 1

yes I have a still at my house its not that hard or dangerous to do but it is labor intensive. you can use a lot of things as your biomass, it doesn't have to be corn or grain, I use apple waste from a local cider plant. I started it as an experiment to get a jump on learning the specifics on converting vehicle to e-85 since its not available in my area yet. now its what powers my ski boat.

you need to build a still, I use 40 gallon electric water heaters for my boilers. you also need large plastic barrels for your wort tank, and media for a molecular sieve. all can be bought on-line. you will need to fill out a BATF fuel producer permit, its a pdf file and mail it in. they say they'll come and inspect periodically unannounced to make sure your not boot legging but in 2 years no one has come yet.

try this link

www.fueldistillation.com/index.html

or google ethanol distillation for hundreds more suppliers and recipes

Answer 2

I don't know if you would be able to do it at home, but they extract the ethonal from corn and mix it with gasoline. The exact mixture depends on the grade of the fuel and is in a percentage. You would be better off creating a fuel using used cooking oil from restaurants. All you have to do is filter it, and it works great in diesel engines and smells pretty good when driving.

Answer 3

Ethanol is grain alcohol, from fermenting corn or other grain.

It's technically feasible, but dangerous & illegal most places.

Answer 4

You get some water, warm it to about 36 degrees C. Add some sugar and a some dried baking yeast. The sugar will turn to ethanol over the next four or five days.

Then you have to distil it because you don't want any water left in there if you are using it as fuel.

Answer 5

People have been making their own ethanol for centuries...it't the same chemical as in alcoholic beverages.  However, to make it fuel-grade (without all the water and flavours and stuff), involves a distilling process which would not be feasible at home (unless, of course, you happen to have distillation and cooling towers in your home...lol).  The ethanol needs to be heated, and since it is a hydrocarbon, it can be explosive if not heated exactly right.

Answer 6

brandon

Ethanol

The following are a couple types of products to make ethanol easily. There are however many materials one can use including sugar cane, corn, wood, etc. The information was cut directly from a guide I offer at www agua-luna com, it is complete but if anyone’s interested in other types of foods to use or a more specific step by step of the process, including building your own still legally, visit www agua-luna com

"THE usual sources of raw material for alcohol Ethanol production from starch are cereal grains such as corn, wheat, rye, barley, milo (sorghum grains), rice, etc. Other types of starch are available from potatoes of all kinds, Jerusalem artichokes, and other high-starch vegetables. Starch conversion is the standard method of production and the one we will discuss here.

It is possible, however, to make alcohol from sugar-producing plants (saccharine material) such as sugar beets, sugarcane, fruits, and others. These substances need no milling (as do grains), but they do require some kind of grinding or squeezing process. Rapid, efficient fermentation of these sugars has not been as well explored as the process using starch.

A third source of fermentables is cellulose, as found in wood and waste sulphite liquor. This more complex process requires the use of acids to reduce the material to wood sugars. Consequently, most do-it-yourselfers should stick to either starch or sugar.

MILLING

All grains must be ground before mashing to expose the starch granules and help them remain in suspension in a water solution. The grain should be ground into a meal -- not a flour! -- that will pass a 20-mesh screen. On a hammermill, however, a 3/16" screen will suffice.

Potatoes and similar high-moisture starch crops should be sliced or finely chopped. Since potato starch granules are large and easily ruptured, it isn't necessary to maintain the hard rapid boil which is required of the tougher, dryer "flinty" starches found in grains.

CONVERSION WITH ENZYMES

For small batches (5 bushels or less), fill the cooker with water (30 gallons per bushel), and add the meal slowly, to prevent lumps from forming. (When, cooking with steam, or at higher temperatures, it is possible to save energy by using less water at the beginning. But for the "small batcher" with an ordinary cooking apparatus, the most complete conversion is obtained by using the full amount of water right from the start to encourage a rapid rolling boil.)

Next, add 3 measuring spoons -- as provided -- per bushel of Alpha Amylase Enzyme (mixed in water) to the mixture and raise the temperature of the mash to 170 deg F (77 deg C), the optimum working environment for the enzyme. Hold the solution at that temperature for 15 minutes while agitating it vigorously.

At this point all the starch available at 170 deg F has been converted to dextrins, so it's time to raise the temperature of the mash to the boiling point. The concoction should be liquid enough to roll at its own rate -- if not, add 2 to 3 gallons of water. Hold the boil for 30 minutes to complete the liquefaction stage. All the starches are now in solution.

Now reduce the temperature to 170 deg F, using the cooling coil, and add 3 more measuring spoons per bushel of Alpha Amylase Enzyme (mixed in water). After 30 minutes of agitation at this temperature, all the previously released starches will have been reduced to dextrins, thereby completing primary conversion.

During secondary conversion the dextrins are further reduced to simple sugars (maltose and glucose) by the beta, or -- to be more exact -- glucoamylase enzymes. You need Alpha Amylase Enzyme and the yeast necessary to carry out secondary conversion and proper fermentation simultaneously, you can add 6 measuring spoons per bushel of the fermentation powder (mixed in water) as soon as you've brought the temperature down to 85 deg F (29 deg C) using the cooling coils."

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at http://www.agua-luna.com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.

Dan Martin

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