Aircraft fuel system
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMichael Joseph Murray, Victor Moreno Patan, Brandon W. Miller
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Abstract
An aircraft fuel system includes a first fuel storage tank arranged to store a first fuel, a second fuel storage tank arranged to store a reduced oxygen fuel, and a fuel tank inerting system arranged to provide a reduced oxygen gas through a fuel contained within the second fuel storage tank to generate the reduced oxygen fuel within the second fuel storage tank. The fuel tank inerting system may include a fuel tank sparging system to inject the reduced oxygen gas directly into the fuel contained within the second fuel storage tank to generate the reduced oxygen fuel.
Claims20
An aircraft fuel system comprising:
- a first fuel storage tank arranged to store a first fuel;
- a second fuel storage tank arranged to store a reduced oxygen fuel;
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- a fuel tank inerting system arranged to provide a reduced oxygen gas through a fuel contained within the second fuel storage tank to generate the reduced oxygen fuel within the second fuel storage tank.
An aircraft propulsion system comprising:
- at least one engine;
- and
- a fuel system including (a) a first fuel storage tank arranged to store a first fuel, (b) a second fuel storage tank arranged to store a reduced oxygen fuel, and (c) a fuel tank inerting system arranged to provide a reduced oxygen gas through a fuel contained within the second fuel storage tank to generate the reduced oxygen fuel within the second fuel storage tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.