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US 8,695,540 B2Granted
Fuel-cracking diesel engine system
AssigneeAerojet Rocketdyne of DE, Inc.
InventorAlan B. Minick
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Abstract
A system includes a diesel engine and a fuel-cracking system in fluid communication with a fuel supply to the diesel engine.
Claims21
A system comprising:
- a diesel engine;
- and
- a fuel-cracking system in fluid communication with a fuel supply to the diesel engine, the fuel-cracking system containing an environment that is substantially free of oxygen and the fuel of the fuel supply also being substantially free of oxygen, permitting the fuel to endothermically crack.
A system comprising:
- a diesel engine;
- a fuel-cracking system in fluid communication with a fuel supply to the diesel engine, wherein the fuel-cracking system includes a fuel-cracking heat exchanger and a closed feed line connecting the fuel supply and the diesel engine and extending through the fuel-cracking heat exchanger;
- and
- a fuel deoxygenator upstream of the fuel-cracking heat exchanger and through which the closed line extends.
1 more element
A diesel engine system comprising:
- a diesel engine;
- a fuel tank;
- a fuel deoxygenator device;
- a fuel-cracking heat exchanger;
- a cooler device;
- and
- a closed feed line connecting the fuel tank and the diesel engine and extending through the fuel deoxygenator device, the fuel-cracking heat exchanger and the cooler device.
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A method of operating a diesel engine system, the method comprising:
- (a) cracking a hydrocarbon-based fuel in an environment substantially free of oxygen to produce a cracked fuel;
- (b) providing the cracked fuel into a diesel engine;
- and
- (c) deoxygenating the hydrocarbon-based fuel prior to the heating of said step (a).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.