What happens when you carbonate gasoline (and other fluids)?

oh my it's even more volatile than water let's give it a shake oh look at that the antifreeze oh really i can't even squeeze it try it if you don't believe me while it's getting there you want to go grab some lunch fellas how's this for an experiment suggestion right here we've got some fluids of various types mostly of the technical variety as for what we're looking to do it's actually very simple we've heard people asking how you carbonate water at home and whether it's possible to carbonate gasoline why don't we find out in today's episode we'll be using this device to do the carbonation without laying it out i can tell you this is a mig welder which requires carbon dioxide to prevent oxygen from coming into contact with the weld while you're putting it down right here we've got some mineral water in a rock bottle it also contains carbon dioxide which is mixed with the water so there's really nothing complicated to all of this it hisses at you when you open it the mineral water now we're not particularly interested in carbonating water this is a channel about cars after all instead we're going with motor oil transmission brake fluid uh antifreeze antifreeze and of course gasoline now that i want to leave for dessert since we don't even really know if it's possible to carbonate gasoline or even motor oil for that matter i mean the water is easy i mean you can always just buy some pre-carbonated mineral water right but how you do it yourself with these fluids well there's only one way to find out so let's do this fellas i'd just like to say thank you for your support and for your kind words i'm well now and everything's good now you yourselves take care and make sure to take all of the necessary precautions given the situation we're in now the latest addition to our online shop are these lovely face masks that'll help keep you safe from all sorts of nasty infections now at the moment it's august and the rainy autumn season is right around the corner meaning it's 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bottle with water now we take the cap we've got the canisters hoses and all of that other jazz how much have we got it set to it'd be pretty hilarious if the bottle were to explode while i'm holding it let's give it a shake shaking it vigorously it has gotten nice and hard now we can begin to slightly bring up the pressure while i keep track of the process okay now it's rock hard let me shake it some more i doubt that this is gonna take forever if i remember correctly it's a pretty quick procedure close off the valve oh look at the gas surging it appears that we've made us some mineral water 100 you can see it bubbling which is quite nice what do you think what do those bubbles taste like they get into your nose no this is some first class stuff so it turned out pretty good of course i meant to say that it's just carbonated and not mineral water since it was based on normal water from our cooler which didn't contain any sort of minerals anyway so the fact of the matter is that carbonating water is a pretty straightforward process and now that we've figured out the water it's time to try this with something else where's the cap at has anybody ever tried carbonating antifreeze well we're about to now in order to keep track of the pressure we've installed this gear reducer the pressure gauges all work on this one let's open the valve and now we proceed to carefully incrementally raise the pressure okay so one line is one bar we're already a two i should definitely bring it up some more that's three and the bottle is still squishy four five and it's rock hard at five bar fantastic or do we keep going no and they're scared that it might explode i mean so what what's the big deal it's oily wash yourself off with water from the tap now if the gasoline or the motor oil were to explode that'd be a lot of fun yeah five bars should do it let's open it up and see where that five bar got us oh wow who screwed it on so tight it detached in the wrong spot but no worries let's carry on and now we see some bubbles which tells us what the gas has been dissolved look at that we've carbonated the antifreeze let's see if the gas begins to escape it doesn't no gas making it out into the bottle but look at how it changed its color we've got some fine bubbles in the coolant but the thing is that this is concentrated anti-freeze which is something like jelly i guess i mean to say that it's pretty thick and high density it's meant to be mixed in equal proportions with water okay i suggest we go ahead and dilute it get it the right consistency for use in the cooling system and well that's what we're going to carbonate let's get to it the bubbles are quicker to come to the surface with the coolant being diluted it's not as dense meaning the gases easily make their way up right a bit of liquid made it into the hose not a problem see the gases are dissolving look at that them making it into the hose isn't ideal but we'll have to deal with it need to get it off yeah you open it just like you would a bottle of soda it just keeps coming out and after capping the bottle here's what we see we can see it bubbling meaning it is oh it is rock hard we've successfully carbonated this coolant which means what exactly well let me open it and show you whoa there yeah we've made us some carbonated water containing antifreeze now let's pour all of this out and make an attempt at carbonating this nice bottle of brake fluid [Music] let's give it a shake in order to dissolve the gases i can't really tell yet right there we go see that a bit had to have found its way back into the hose but that's that's the amount that got into the hose and now we can see the gases rising turning into foam holy cow it's even more volatile than water the foam isn't disappearing the pressure is bound to decrease so look here brake fluid and inside we see the dissolved gases that are trying to find their way out awesome it's so nice and clear now what if we were to cap it and give it a shake bitting the cap and let's see what happens i can't even squeeze it the guesses are trying to escape and look at what's happening wait for the foam to come down it appears that brake fluid lends itself well to carbonation though i wouldn't recommend using this in a car as you might imagine the entire brake system will just be filled with gases and who even knows how long it's going to stay in there whether it's out quick or lingers for a bit in our case it hasn't escaped yet i can tell you that well it's still bubbling at least let's shake it one more time and the bottle is once again rock hard now i open it wow they dissolved quite well in the brake fluid and it's taking a while for them to escape then again if you compare the viscosity to some of the other fluids well it has a bit more density than water i do reckon this is going very well we've got some good carbonation going okay so water antifreeze brake fluid we've seen what happens there and i am quite amazed by the brake fluid perhaps we will be just as amazed by one of these oils okay let's continue in the same order we were going we'll start with the so called the dex run some nice transmission fluid it's colored red let's see it's nice and red we might need to wait for a bit of course given that i do see a few bubbles after all the liquid was coming down from a certain height so a bit of air did find its way into the bottle [Music] i'm gonna carefully open it we'll allow the gases to escape from inside the hose and the reducer the pressure is going to keep dropping and we will see what happens oh look it is dissolving i can see the fluid bubbling look at all of them bubbles so apparently you can carbonate dexron too those are the gases escaping it might be the other gas it used to contain i guess we need to remove this cap grab my regular cap that i had somewhere now i close it and start shaking [Applause] well i can't say that it's hard as a rock but it has expanded it has become quite hard though i am able to squeeze it a tiny bit and the fluid itself has become a mighty mod the bubbles are stuck with no way out why don't we go ahead and set them gases free here we go it's hissing and foaming up the liquid is trying to escape okay fellas now we have to wait for a bit for the bubbles to make it out but they're still okay there they are wow the foam is quick to form it's very slow to disappear though the bubbles are barely even moving you can clearly see them next to the plastic they seem very stiff while it's getting there you want to go grab some lunch [Music] okay now we try the motor oil we poured it into the bottle all right let's get to it shake it up in order for the gases to dissolve and the bubbles are quite large when we were pouring this in they were tiny but now after shaking it we see some huge ass bubbles form and they are slow to rise there's the gas escaping and the oil has begun to bubble and now just like we did before we remove this screw the normal cap on shake it and what do we see the pressure doesn't seem to have gone up by that much but it is noticeable though i have absolutely no trouble squeezing it so there is some pressure and now we see what happens when we release the pressure which means that carbon dioxide is motor oil soluble now the interesting part let's try pouring some gasoline into the bottle for carbonation of course we won't just be leaving it at that if we are successful in carbonating the gasoline what are we going to do then we'll feed it into the carburetor and try starting the car beating in some gas our gauge shows in mega pascals one of those equals 10 bar meaning that o5 is equivalent to 5 bar let's shake this up i can't really tell to be honest we had some tiny bubbles that quickly dissipated and that's what it keeps doing look at how quick they are to disappear they simply vanish there you go and so now all right let's see what let's switch this up a bit oh for crying out loud what them you notice that too i'm noticing something pretty strange can you see it why is that happening we got bubbles appearing out of nowhere okay i'm gonna grab the regular cap and screw it on i wasn't able to see whether the gas is dissolved or not what we did see were bubbles popping out of nowhere and some kind of wavy action oh really i can't even squeeze it try it if you don't believe me here you try squeezing it yeah i thought so it's as if we've still got the hose attached and it's creating five bar of pressure oh look here nope need to do it again i blocked it with my hand same story look at them bubbles some mighty bubbles they appear in weird places and are pretty huge holy cow isn't that something pretty cool it appears that gasoline is also good for dissolving carbon dioxide let's try that one more time well it's holding its own there are plenty of gases in there it's taking a while for them to escape one more time wow how much gas did it take in such a small amount of gasoline i take it the same as in water but the bubbles are big for some reason like really big can't say whether that's good or bad oh i can't even squeeze it it's barely even giving in okay i'm seeing a decrease now my theory is that if you carbonate gasoline and feed it into the combustion chamber doesn't matter whether you're talking carburetor or fuel injection you've got both air and carbon dioxide making its way in who's going to win so we'll carbonate this once again and try starting the car let's do this [Music] so at night we've disconnected the fuel pump won't be involved okay let's start the car and allow whatever gas is left in the carburetor to burn out and then we feed in the carbonated gasoline try again please yeah that'll do there's actually plenty of pressure inside the bottle wouldn't you know no need to even squeeze it go for it it works go for real [Music] look at that the car is running on carbonated gasoline what's say what [Applause] black smoke i think i can set this down given it's under plenty of pressure here's where we're at with this follows it's been running for a bit and it's starting to get hard to breathe in here some guests please see that now prior to this the car was running just fine no smoke no stink so it appears that the carbon dioxide doesn't give you a clean burn the air fuel mixture can still be ignited but some of it just flies out the tailpipe without even burning which is what all of this smoke is about so that's the unburned fuel that's coming out honestly it's starting to sting my eyes the camera crew is frantically looking for some gas masks all right we should move over to there and there you have it fellas you saw it all for yourselves carbon dioxide appears to be a pretty peculiar gas it can be dissolved in liquid and not just in water but in various others such as gasoline which can absorb quite a lot of it incidentally you would have seen it taking a very long time to escape it just kept coming out with no end anyway you saw it all for yourselves our experiment has been a 107 success and that's it you guys watch us subscribe suggestions comments give us a big thumbs up all right catch you later

Channel: Garage 54

Views: 262,147

Keywords: garage, garage54, carbonated gasoline

Id: R77Q7arqTdA

Length: 25min 58sec (1558 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 11 2021