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AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsAhmad O. Al Khowaiter, Esam Z. Hamad, Husain A. Baaqel, Amer A. Amer
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A point-of-sale fuel dispensing system, a pump assembly and a method of dispensing fuel at a point-of-sale. The system includes a market fuel storage tank, pump assembly, fuel conduit, separation unit, numerous enriched fuel product tanks and a controller. The separation unit may selectively receive at least a portion of market fuel and convert it into an octane-rich fuel component and a cetane-rich fuel component that may be subsequently dispensed to a vehicle being fueled, where a fuel grade selection and retail payment of a fuel containing the octane-rich or cetane-rich fuel components is provided to the vehicle based on user input at the customer interface.
A method of dispensing fuel at a point-of-sale, the method comprising:
The method of claim 14, further comprising using at least one separator unit such that upon passing of the fuel contained within at least one of the market fuel storage tanks prior to delivery of such fuel to the pump assembly, the at least one separator unit performs at least one of oxygenate separation and aromatics separation of the respective market fuel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.