Contaminant removal for catalytic fuel tank inerting system
AssigneeHamilton Sunstrand Corporation
InventorsZissis A. Dardas, Sean C. Emerson, Catherine Thibaud, Tianli Zhu
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Abstract
A fuel tank inerting system is disclosed. The system includes a fuel tank and a catalytic reactor with an inlet, an outlet, a reactive flow path between the inlet and the outlet, and a catalyst on the reactive flow path. The catalytic reactor is arranged to receive fuel from a fuel flow path in operative communication with the fuel tank and oxygen from an oxygen source, and to catalytically react a mixture of the fuel and oxygen along the reactive flow path to generate an inert gas. An inert gas flow path provides inert gas from the catalytic reactor to the fuel tank. An adsorbent is disposed along the fuel flow path or along the reactive flow path.
Claims10
A fuel tank inerting system, comprising
- a fuel tank;
- a mixer arranged to receive fuel from the fuel tank and oxygen from an oxygen source;
- a catalytic reactor comprising an inlet, an outlet, a reactive flow path between the inlet and the outlet, and a catalyst on the reactive flow path, said catalytic reactor arranged to receive a mixture of fuel and oxygen from the mixer, and to catalytically react the mixture of the fuel and oxygen along the reactive flow path to generate an inert gas;
- an inert gas flow path from the catalytic reactor to the fuel tank;
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- an adsorbent disposed along a reactant flow path between the mixer and the catalytic reactor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.