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Science 7 November 1980:
Vol. 210. no. 4470, pp. 646 - 647
DOI: 10.1126/science.210.4470.646
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Liquid-Phase Dehydration of Aqueous Ethanol-Gasoline Mixtures

GEORGE F. FANTA 1, ROBERT C. BURR 1, WILLIAM L. ORTON 1, and WILLIAM M. DOANE 1

1 Northern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research, Science and Education Administration, Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois 61604

Two-phase mixtures of gasoline, water, and ethanol were dehydrated with both starch and saponified starch-g-polyacrylonitrile (HSPAN). Whereas starch absorbed ethanol as well as water, HSPAN selectively absorbed the water component, allowing ethanol to dissolve in the gasoline phase.

Submitted on July 16, 1980

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