Re: [MV] contaminated diesel fuel

From: J. Forster (jfor@onemain.com)
Date: Thu Sep 20 2001 - 15:11:03 PDT


Hi,

Have you thought about mixing water with the contaminated fuel very well and
then letting it stand to separate the water and oil. I THINK ethylene glycol is
much more soluable in water than in fuel oil. If you then decant the fuel, it
should have much less glycol in it. It might take more than one pass to remove
most of the glycol. Try an experiment with a small quantity in a jar and see if
it works. I've been told this is the way to separate sugar from fuel.

-John

King wrote:

> >Does anyone have any feasible ideas how to get anti-freeze out of diesel
> >fuel????
> >
>
> I have come across the same thing and basically used it for the oil stove
> but it does splatter at times when burning.The other thing I've done is
> mixed 50/50 gas diesel on an old Land Rover gas/petrol engine and ran it.It
> gets a bit hard to start and there is a puff of blue every time you shift
> and power is down a bit but it still works.Anything more than 50/50 was lousy.
>
> You can use up to 10% diesel to cut your gas with on a gas engine and it
> should be fine for most older motors.I don't know what it would do to the
> fuel injected computerized models.
> I have a friend who is working with me on the veggy oil thing and he is
> running 50/50 diesel veggy oil right now with no changes on the engine and
> everything is fine so far.No power loss and the same mileage.A little harder
> to start though.
> Andre
>
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