Fuel conditioning process

US7118605B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Winfried Degen · Eßlingen, DE
• Erwin Loeffler · Friedrichshafen, DE
• Carsten Plog · Markdorf, DE
• Melanie Schnell · Ahaus, DE
• Thomas Stengel · Friedrichshafen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 4, 2002
• Grant date: Oct 10, 2006
• Expiry date: Jun 26, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C10L1/1233
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to a fuel conditioning process for internal combustion engines of motor vehicles. According to the present invention, on board a motor vehicle at a temperature of from 20° C. to 150° C. and at atmospheric pressure, nitrous gases essentially including nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, or dinitrogen monoxide, or gaseous mixtures thereof are passed through the liquid fuel of the motor vehicle, nitro compounds being formed in the fuel as a result of the passing through of the nitrous gases through the fuel.