Invention Grant
- Patent Title: On-board fuel vapor separation for multi-fuel vehicle
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Application No.: US11955246Application Date: 2007-12-12
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Publication No.: US08118009B2Publication Date: 2012-02-21
- Inventor: Ross Dykstra Pursifull , Mark Allen Dearth
- Applicant: Ross Dykstra Pursifull , Mark Allen Dearth
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Alleman Hall McCoy Russell & Tuttle LLP
- Agent Julia Voutyras
- Main IPC: F02M1/00
- IPC: F02M1/00

Abstract:
A fuel delivery system for a fuel burning engine of a vehicle and a method of operating the fuel delivery system is provided. As one example, the method includes separating a first fuel and a second fuel from a fuel vapor on-board the vehicle, said fuel vapor including at least an alcohol component and a hydrocarbon component and said first fuel including a higher concentration of the alcohol component than the fuel vapor and the second fuel; condensing the separated first fuel from a vapor phase to a liquid phase; delivering the condensed liquid phase of the first fuel to the engine; and combusting at least the condensed liquid phase of the first fuel at the engine.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090157277A1 On-Board Fuel Vapor Separation for Multi-Fuel Vehicle Public/Granted day:2009-06-18
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