Method for cleaning fuel oil for a diesel engine
AssigneeAlfa Laval Corporate AB
InventorMitul SAWJANI
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Abstract
A method for cleaning fuel oil for a diesel engine includes providing a fuel oil to be cleaned, supplying said fuel oil to be cleaned to a centrifugal separator, and cleaning said fuel oil in the centrifugal separator to provide a clean oil phase. The method further includes measuring the viscosity of the fuel oil to be cleaned before cleaning in said centrifugal separator or the viscosity of the clean oil phase, and regulating the temperature of the fuel oil to be cleaned based on said measured viscosity.
Claims20
A method for cleaning fuel oil for a diesel engine comprising the steps of:
- providing a fuel oil to be cleaned;
- supplying said fuel oil to be cleaned to a centrifugal separator;
- cleaning said fuel oil in the centrifugal separator to provide a clean oil phase;
- measuring the viscosity of the fuel oil to be cleaned before cleaning in said centrifugal separator or the viscosity of the clean oil phase, phase;
- and
- regulating the temperature of the fuel oil to be cleaned based on said measured viscosity.
A system for cleaning fuel oil for a diesel engine comprising:
- a centrifugal separator for separating impurities from a fuel oil for a diesel engine and for generating a cleaned oil phase;
- at least one instrument for measuring the viscosity of the fuel oil to be cleaned or the viscosity of the cleaned oil phase;
- a temperature regulator configured to regulate the temperature of the fuel oil to be cleaned;
- and
- a control unit configured for receiving information of the viscosity from said at least one instrument for measuring the viscosity and further configured for generating an output signal to the temperature regulator based on the received information of the viscosity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.