Method and device for lubricating and simultaneously supplying fuel in a vegetable oil-operated combustion engine

US6532918B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Fuchs Petrolub AG · DE

Inventors

• Theo Mang · Weinheim, DE
• Rolf Luther · Speyer, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 23, 2000
• Grant date: Mar 18, 2003
• Expiry date: Jun 23, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/12
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and a device for the lubrication and for the simultaneous fuel supply of a vegetable oil-rated internal combustion engine is described in which the internal combustion engine is operated exclusively with vegetable oil thereby that during operation an additive-treated vegetable oil is continuously supplied as lubricant and the used vegetable oil lubricant is combusted in doses as engine fuel together with fresh vegetable oil fuel in the engine.