A fuel management module for use with a CNG fuel system for a vehicle includes a housing configured to be connected to the vehicle and a number of connections, receptacles, and controls associated with the module. A defueling receptacle may be positioned on the front panel of the housing, for defueling a fuel tank of the vehicle. A defueling control valve may be positioned on the front panel of the housing for controlling operation of the defueling receptacle, allowing for selective defueling. One or more high pressure connections may be accessible on the housing and configured for connection to one or more separate fuel tanks in a plug and play configuration. A plurality of filling connections may be accessible on the housing for filling the fuel tank(s). A low pressure fuel output connection may be positioned on the back panel of the housing to provide fuel output from the high pressure connections to the engine.

A gas supply systemincludes a compressor unit, an accumulator unit, a pre-cooling system and a housing. In the gas supply system, the compressor unit is vertically arranged and the pre-cooling system is arranged above the accumulator unit in the housing. The compressor unit and the accumulator unit are covered by one rectangular parallelepiped housing.

The present invention is to properly manage life of an accumulator and extend the life of the accumulator. A gas supply system includes a control section, an acquiring section, a classifying section, and a judging section. The acquiring section acquires stress amplitude of accumulators from a pressure difference between first pressure on the gas storage side and second pressure on the gas lead-out side. The classifying section classifies the stress amplitude into a plurality of groups. The judging section divides the calculated acquirement number n.sub.i of the stress amplitude for each of the groups by the predetermined breaking cycle number N.sub.i, and determines a fatigue degree n.sub.i/N.sub.i. In a case where this value becomes a predetermined threshold value or more, the judging section judges that the accumulator comes to the end of the life.

Compressed gas dispensing methods using cascade dispensing from a first plurality of storage vessels and a second plurality of storage vessels. A compressor is used to provide very high pressure compressed gas for the second plurality of pressure storage vessels. Various methods are described for different sources of the compressed gas. The methods are particularly suitable for dispensing hydrogen into storage vessels in vehicles.

The invention discloses a multi-tank methanol-water mixture storage system of a fuel cell vehicle, comprising a main accommodating tank, multiple explosion-proof methanol-water mixture storage tank, bodies are fixedly provided in the main accommodating tank, and the explosion-proof methanol-water mixture storage tank bodies are connected with each other through a delivery channel provided, with a delivery pump; each explosion-proof methanol-water mixture storage tank body is provided with a methanol inlet, a methanol outlet and a vent valve, and all the methanol inlets are connected to a methanol inlet assembly disposed on the main accommodating tank through a liquid path pipeline; the vent valve is disposed on the methanol inlet. The methanol-water mixture storage system of the invention is flameproof and explosion-proof, and does not explode in dangerous situations such as traffic collisions, rollover accidents or military attacks of bullets and bombs, thereby ensuring the safety of people and property on vehicles.

An open loop cooling apparatus is provided. The open loop cooling apparatus includes gas capturing and collecting elements, an expansion valve receptive of pressurized gas from the gas capturing and collecting elements and configured to expand the pressurized gas, an evaporator coil downstream from the expansion valve through which the pressurized gas, having been expanded in the expansion valve, passes to cool air flowing over the evaporator coil and one or more storage tanks receptive of the pressurized gas from the evaporator coil for later sale.

A hydraulic system is provided to reduce a dead volume when pressurizing gas. The system includes a gas source, a gas output, a pressure vessel coupled to the gas source and the gas output, a hydraulic system that forces hydraulic fluid into the pressure vessel from the gas source to compress gas, and an overflow tank that receives overflow of hydraulic fluid once all gas has been expelled from the pressure vessel via the gas output.

A gas delivery system including: a feeder for feeding a gas to a tank; a pressure storage container unit which has a plurality of pressure storage containers, and sends out the gas to the feeder; a gas supply unit; and a controller. The controller implements a storing operation that a specified pressure storage among the plurality of pressure storage containers is supplied with the gas until a pressure of the specified pressure storage container reaches a reference pressure or greater, after finish of a delivery of the gas to one tank carrier, and a sending operation that the gas is sent out from another pressure storage container except the specified pressure storage container to the feeder, and then sent out from the specified pressure storage container to the feeder on a receipt of a shift indication from the feeder, at a delivery of the gas to a subsequent tank carrier.

A method for adjusting temperature and/or pressure of fuel in a pressured container system of a vehicle to a respective temperature setpoint and/or a respective pressure setpoint before a process of filling the pressurized containers includes extracting fuel from a first pressurized container having a first temperature and a first pressure, to bring the first temperature and/or the first pressure of the fuel closer to the temperature setpoint and/or to the pressure setpoint of the first pressurized container. The method also includes supplying the extracted fuel to either a fuel conversion device to power the vehicle or into a second pressurized container, where fuel in the second pressurized container has a second temperature and a second pressure, to bring the second temperature and/or the second pressure of the fuel closer to the temperature setpoint and/or to the pressure setpoint of the second pressurized container. The temperature setpoints and/or the pressure setpoints are determined such that, without exceeding the respective maximum operating pressure and the respective maximum operating temperature of the respective pressurized container, the amount of fuel introduced from a single filling source by a process of filling the pressurized containers which is carried out at the same time and for the same length of time is maximized.

The present disclosure generally relates to a multiple receptacle fuel filling and storage system in a vehicle and/or powertrain, and a method of using the same.