Fuel selection method and related system for a mobile asset
AssigneeGe Global Sourcing LLC
InventorsShawn Gallagher, Daniel George Norton
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Abstract
Embodiments of methods and systems related to operating a mobile asset are provided. In one example, a method for operating a mobile asset includes supplying an engine with a fuel controller a first amount of a first fuel and a second amount of a second fuel and combusting the first fuel and the second fuel at a fuel combustion ratio in at least one cylinder of the engine, the first amount and the second amount being selected based on route information for a route along which the mobile asset is operable to travel and a projected exhaustion of the first fuel that does not precede a projected exhaustion of the second fuel, wherein the mobile asset is unable to operate with the second fuel alone.
Claims21
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A method for operating a mobile asset, comprising:
- selecting a route from a plurality of possible routes along which the mobile asset is operable to travel based on fuel availability information for at least one of a first fuel or a second fuel at one or more fuel stations along the plurality of possible routes;
- and
- supplying an engine of the mobile asset with the first fuel and the second fuel at a fuel combustion ratio for combustion in at least one cylinder of the engine, the fuel combustion ratio selected based on the selected route.
A method for operating a mobile asset, comprising:
- propelling the mobile asset with one or more of a first fuel or a second fuel;
- and
- selecting a fuel ratio of the first fuel to the second fuel for propelling the mobile asset and a route from a plurality of possible routes along which the mobile asset is operable to travel based on availability information for at least one of the first fuel or the second fuel at one or more fuel stations along the plurality of possible routes.
A method for operating a mobile asset, comprising:
- propelling the mobile asset with a first fuel and a second fuel, the first fuel and the second fuel respectively stored in first and second separate tanks of the mobile asset;
- and
- selecting a fuel ratio of the first fuel to the second fuel for propelling the mobile asset and a route from a plurality of possible routes along which the mobile asset is operable to travel based on availability information for the first fuel and the second fuel at plural fuel stations along the plurality of possible routes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.