Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ducted fuel injection
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Application No.: US14789782Application Date: 2015-07-01
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Publication No.: US09909549B2Publication Date: 2018-03-06
- Inventor: Charles J. Mueller
- Applicant: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
- Applicant Address: US NM Albuquerque
- Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
- Current Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NM Albuquerque
- Agency: Medley, Behrens & Lewis, LLC
- Main IPC: F02M61/18
- IPC: F02M61/18 ; F02M61/14

Abstract:
Various technologies presented herein relate to enhancing mixing inside a combustion chamber to form one or more locally premixed mixtures comprising fuel and charge-gas with low peak fuel to charge-gas ratios to enable minimal, or no, generation of soot and other undesired emissions during ignition and subsequent combustion of the locally premixed mixtures. To enable sufficient mixing of the fuel and charge-gas, a jet of fuel can be directed to pass through a bore of a duct causing charge-gas to be drawn into the bore creating turbulence to mix the fuel and the drawn charge-gas. The duct can be located proximate to an opening in a tip of a fuel injector. The duct can comprise of one or more holes along its length to enable charge-gas to be drawn into the bore, and further, the duct can cool the fuel and/or charge-gas prior to combustion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160097360A1 DUCTED FUEL INJECTION Public/Granted day:2016-04-07
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