Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ethanol engine system
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Application No.: US15311991Application Date: 2015-05-18
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Publication No.: US10197019B2Publication Date: 2019-02-05
- Inventor: Atsushi Shimada , Takao Ishikawa , Yuzo Shirakawa
- Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
- Current Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Volpe and Koenig, P.C.
- Priority: JP2014-103914 20140520
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/064131 WO 20150518
- International Announcement: WO2015/178327 WO 20151126
- Main IPC: F02M27/02
- IPC: F02M27/02 ; F02D41/02 ; F02D19/08 ; C01B3/32 ; C01B3/50 ; F02B9/02

Abstract:
An ethanol engine system stabilizes components of reformed gas generated by a reformer and a calorific value of fuel supplied to an engine. The ethanol engine system includes a reservoir tank for an aqueous ethanol solution, a first supply device that supplies the aqueous ethanol solution to the reformer, a separator that cools mixed gas fed from the reformer, including the reformed gas, condenses water vapor included in the mixed gas and separates into gas and liquid, a reformed gas supply device that supplies the reformed gas separated by the separator to the engine, a recovery tank that collects a recovery solution separated by the separator, and a first recovery solution supply device that supplies the recovery solution in the recovery tank to the reformer or a second recovery solution supply device that supplies the recovery solution in the recovery tank to a combustion chamber of the engine.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170089306A1 ETHANOL ENGINE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-03-30
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