To assist the students in understanding methanol as optional fuel and the technological effects of methanol as an alternative fuel.
Several factors affect the use and selection of any fuel.
Among the important ones are engine design, net energy per pound, net energy per gallon, and the sulphur content of alternative fuel properties. Measuring a fuel's relative potential energy can easily be done by defining that fuel's Btu content. Methanol requires few if any engine modifications to extract the maximum power from this fuel. As compared to gasoline, methanol lowers some tailpipe emissions, namely the sulphur based HC, CO, as well as NO x . Methanol contains only half the energy per gallon of gasoline but has a very high octane rating.