Fuel selection method and related system for a mobile asset
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsShawn Gallagher, Daniel George Norton
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Abstract
Embodiments of methods and systems related to operating a mobile asset over a fixed route are provided. In one example, an engine system is provided. The example engine system includes a fuel controller configured to adjust a first amount of at least one of a first fuel of a plurality of fuels delivered to an engine and a second amount of a second fuel of the plurality of fuels responsive to at least one of fuel market information for the plurality of fuels or route information about a fixed route along which a mobile asset powered by the engine is operable to travel.
Claims25
A method for operating a mobile asset, comprising:
- supplying an engine with a first amount of a first fuel and a second amount of a second fuel, the first amount and the second amount being selected based on route information for a fixed route along which the mobile asset is operable to travel and fuel market information, and thereby to achieve a projected exhaustion of the first fuel that does not precede a projected exhaustion of the second fuel.
A method for operating a consist, the method comprising:
- receiving route information for a fixed route along which the consist is traveling or will travel;
- receiving fuel market information for a first fuel and a second fuel, the first fuel and the second fuel being combustible in an engine in a first mobile asset of the consist;
- and
- generating a motive power setting based upon the route information and the fuel market information so that a projected exhaustion of the first fuel does not precede a projected exhaustion of the second fuel.
An engine system, comprising:
- a fuel controller configured to adjust a first amount of at least one of a first fuel of a plurality of fuels delivered to an engine and a second amount of a second fuel of the plurality of fuels responsive to at least one of fuel market information for the plurality of fuels or route information about a fixed route along which a mobile asset powered by the engine is operable to travel.
An engine system for a mobile asset, the engine system comprising:
- an engine including a cylinder and an exhaust fluidly coupled to the cylinder;
- and
- a fuel controller including memory holding instructions executable by a processor to:
- deliver an amount of one or more of a plurality of fuels to the exhaust, for emissions control of the mobile asset;
- and
- adjust the amount of the one or more of the plurality of fuels delivered to the exhaust responsive to at least one of fuel market information along a predefined path along which the mobile asset is operative to travel or route information about the predefined path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.