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Looking to Build a Propane Engine Pre Heater

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Fri Sep 11, 2015 7:49 am

Re: Looking to Build a Propane Engine Pre Heater

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Fri Sep 11, 2015 7:51 am

Re: Looking to Build a Propane Engine Pre Heater

There's a few new multi fuel stoves out there that burn avgas fine and can be used just about anywhere. I follow with everyone else that uses them...common sense and don't walk away while it's going.
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Fri Sep 11, 2015 7:55 am

Re: Looking to Build a Propane Engine Pre Heater

Timberwolf wrote:
mtv wrote:Avid--so, your little camp stove doesn't put out moisture? Next time you're out and about in -20 or colder temperatures around town or at the airport, take a quick look at the exhaust coming from all those automobiles and airplanes. That's water vapor you're seeing. Where do you suppose that water is coming from....could it be from that gasoline and the combustion process? ALL gasoline has water in it. It's impossible to remove all of it.

Your Avid probably doesn't have enough stuff in the panel to worry about a little moisture, but all I said is I wouldn't put a hose from that rig into the cockpit of my airplane. Do what you want, with your airplane.


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haha cracks me up here MTV. It's not that gasoline has water in it and you're seeing it burn off, it's part of the chemical reaction
2 C8H18 + 25 O2 → 16 CO2 + 18 H2O


Ummmm, isn't that pretty much what I said....."could it be from that gasoline and the combustion process?"

And, I've been informed by a well known petroleum engineer that there are two "flavors" of water that occurs in gasoline: free water--the stuff you can drain from your sumps, and a little bit of water that is actually in solution in the fuel, and cannot be removed by normal filtration processes. This fuel remains in suspension in the fuel.

Nonetheless, in the context of this discussion, it makes no difference where the moisture comes from. The point was that moisture IS produced by the combustion of gasoline.

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