According to their website, they started with 90.8 octane, and ended up
with 89.5 when they were done.
Some simple calculations come out pretty close to that:
91 octane fuel is made up of 10% ethanol which is 115 octane, and 90%
base fuel of some octane value X.
9/10(X) + 1/10(115) = 91 octane
Solving for X = ((91 - 1/10(115))(10))/9 = 88.33 octane
Anyone on here happen to work in the petroleum industry and can verify if this really will work?
The other question is what to do with the removed ethanol/water mix that is left over? How to dispose of it, or what other use does it have?
Here is a reply I got from the company:
The process does require two 5-gallon buckets that are provided by the user. One bucket has at least four gallons of clean water in it. The other bucket is the drain bucket. You simply put the hoses in the respective buckets and the system (under software control) will draw the water in and do the ?washing? using a multi-stage/multi-pass algorithm that was developed over many months.
We are planning to have an ?add-on? version for people with existing fuel deliver systems. There has been a lot of interest, and our software was developed with that exact scenario in mind. All of the ?guts? of this system are contained in, quite literally a ?black-box?, and lend itself well to adding on to varying systems.
Thanks again for your interest! If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.
Nick Myers
Vice President/CTO
Use our A-S-S to Fix Your Gas!
(480) 639-3140
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www.PortableFuelSystems.com