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To: Wonder Warthog

Hey bud.

I'm afraid I worked for an inbred lot of them at one time. Invented slick stuff for production processes, no patents done by the "management" and they let the Japanese take pics of it all. Finally, I grew tired of fighting the SOBs to make them money.

Did you ever get an answer on that vapor pressure question in my last PM to you?


17 posted on 08/26/2006 12:13:50 AM PDT by 308MBR (Dar el Harb feels one 1,400 year long "Jihad" is enough for one planet. Bye, goat pokers.)
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To: 308MBR
"Did you ever get an answer on that vapor pressure question in my last PM to you?"

Nope--haven't had a chance (the necessary thermo data is not part of my "standard reference library"--I'd need to make a trip to a university library to find it). BUT--you don't need to keep the temp NEARLY that high. Any temp > 65 C will do the trick (actually, a temp slightly below this will probably work, as you will actually be venting into the engine during the intake stroke, and thus under some degree of vacuum). You can do an "analogy estimate" from the steam tables in the CRC handbook (i.e. assume that methanol behaves similarly to water), which I did look up--as I recall, for a 10 degree C temp above the boiling point, you'd need about three atmospheres (45psi) to keep the methanol in the liquid phase.

18 posted on 08/26/2006 6:55:59 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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