Vehicle-mounted fuel separation system
AssigneesExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsRandall D. Partridge, Kouseki Sugiyama
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Abstract
A vehicle-mounted fuel separation system 24 is provided with a fuel heating device 56 heating stock fuel and a separator 57 separating stock fuel heated by the fuel heating device into a plurality of types of fuel. Furthermore, a forced exhaust device 66 forcibly exhausting the fuel in the fuel heating device from the fuel heating device when the temperature of the fuel in the fuel heating device becomes a reference temperature or more or is expected to become a reference temperature or more is provided. Due to this, a fuel separation system where excessive heating of the fuel by the fuel heating device of the fuel separation system is prevented is provided.
Claims8
A vehicle-mounted fuel separation system provided with a fuel heating device heating stock fuel and a separator separating stock fuel heated by said fuel heating device into a plurality of types of fuel,
- said vehicle-mounted fuel separation system further provided with a forced exhaust device forcibly exhausting said fuel in the fuel heating device from said fuel heating device when the temperature of said fuel in the fuel heating device becomes a reference temperature or more or is expected to become said reference temperature or more.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.