[pct-l] isopropyl alcohol as stove fuel???

[Patrick Beggan]

Well, alcohol vapors are fairly volatile, enough to burn at least, but  
liquid alcohol is not. However, alcohol is still of low volatility  
compared to almost any other fuel. At any rate, there's no danger of  
explosion by keeping it in your pack. It's not stored under pressure,  
either.


On Feb 14, 2008, at 11:07 PM, kris wrote:

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> Alcohol is volatile, though much less so than, say, hexane. It is  
> the alcohol vapors that we burn. Those of us using double-walled or  
> side burning stoves prime the stove to increase the volitility of  
> the fuel. Methanol is much more volatile than ethanol or isopropyl  
> (as they increase in molecular weight, they decrease in volatility).
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> Kris
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> --- On Fri 02/15, Patrick Beggan < meta474 at gmail.com > wrote:
> From: Patrick Beggan [mailto: meta474 at gmail.com]
> To: carlito at gmail.com, pct-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:19:42 -0800
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] isopropyl alcohol as stove fuel???
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> Alcohol of any kind of not volatile at all. It's very stable,  
> actually, and even the most impure alcohol burns a lot cleaner than  
> any petroleum-based fuel. Isopropyl alcohol will work in a stove but  
> you don't want to use it, it has impurities that will dirty up your  
> stove. Best kind of alcohol is ethanol, as pure as you can get it.On  
> Feb 14, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Carl Siechert wrote:I don't have the  
> technical knowledge, but someone who does is Roy Robinson. He says  
> isopropyl alcohol is sooty, but even at 99%, not too volatile. http://royrobinson.homestead.com/Cat_Stove.html 
>    On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Tortoise  
> <Tortoise73 at charter.net> wrote: Question for someone with some  
> technical knowledge.I have a bottle of 99% isopropyl alcohol for use  
> as a sterilizer. I'm wondering if this can be used as a stove fuel.  
> It's relatively cheap. Or isit too volatile?  
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