Measuring and testing – Internal combustion engine or related engine system or... – Compression
Patent
1991-05-10
1993-04-27
Myracle, Jerry W.
Measuring and testing
Internal combustion engine or related engine system or...
Compression
G01F 902
Patent
active
052051617
ABSTRACT:
A fuel measurement instrument and method of monitoring fuel flow. The system is primarily for diesel engines, and is specially designed to measure fuel consumption and interface to host devices such as Marine Global Navigation Systems, On-Board Computer Systems of Off-Highway Mining Vehicles, Class 8 Trucks, Buses, Locomotives, and all other on-board computer systems. A frequency based fuel consumption measuring system arranged for use with an engine or combustion device, in which a portion of the fuel fed thereto is unburned and including a return line arranged to return fuel back to the fuel supply, said measuring system comprising a volumetric flow meter measuring fuel supplied to the combustion device, a temperature sensor measuring the temperature of the fuel supplied to the combustion device, a volumetric flow meter measuring return flow in the return line, a temperature sensor measuring return fuel temperature, an electronic device responsive to the outputs of said two fuel flow meters and said temperature sensors compensating the fuel flow measurements for variations in the temperature of the fuel, further determining an output which comprises the differential of the compensated measurements, an electronic component responsive to the output of the fuel flow differential, and a user programmable adjustment mechanism, capable of customizing the output to various pulse output frequencies, related to fuel flow rate.
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Eckelman Eugene M.
Myracle Jerry W.
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