A fuel gas supply assembly for an internal combustion engine defines a leakage containment flowpath which includes a leakage containment space formed between the body of a gas admission valve and the wall defining the inner surface of a compartment formed in the cylinder head of the engine in which the gas admission valve is mounted. The gas admission valve is sealingly connected in fluid communication with the fuel gas conduit of a conduit assembly via a first aperture of the compartment so that both the fuel gas flowpath and the leakage containment space extend along and at least partially around a common portion of the length axis of the compartment. In another aspect, a gas admission valve includes an internal leakage containment flowpath formed by a leakage containment compartment which is interposed between the actuator and the fuel gas flowpath within the gas admission valve and sealingly connected to the leakage containment flowpath.

A method for deposit mitigation in a gaseous fuel injector that introduces a gaseous fuel through a gaseous fuel orifice directly into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine includes at least one of a) reducing the ago length of the gaseous fuel orifice by substantially between 10% to 50% of a previous length of a previous gaseous fuel orifice showing deposit accumulation above a predetermined threshold; b) providing the gaseous fuel orifice with an inwardly and substantially linearly tapering profile; c) determining deposit mitigation is needed; and performing at least one of the following deposit mitigation techniques i) increasing gaseous fuel injection pressure wherein deposit accumulation is reduced during fuel injection; and ii) decreasing gaseous fuel temperature wherein a rate of deposit accumulation is reduced; and d) injecting compressed air through the gaseous fuel orifice during shutdown of the internal combustion engine; whereby torque loss in the internal combustion engine due to deposit accumulation in the gaseous fuel orifice is reduced below a predetermined value.

The present invention relates to a gas heat pump system. A gas heat pump system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a compressor for compressing a refrigerant; a gas engine for driving the compressor; a mixer for mixing air and fuel to generate a mixed gas to be supplied to the gas engine; a mixed gas supply line connected between the mixer and the gas engine; and a supercharger for supercharging the mixed gas supplied to the gas engine through the mixed gas supply line, wherein the supercharger comprises a sealed housing formed by sealing the remaining parts thereof other than an inlet port and an outlet port through which the mixed gas moves into and out of the housing, and a bypass line is provided between the sealed housing and the inlet port of the supercharger so as to resupply a mixed gas in the sealed housing to the inlet port of the supercharger. Therefore, the system can prevent a safety-related accident resulting from the leakage of the mixed gas out of the supplier and can reduce the amount of fuel consumption.

A monitoring apparatus is provided for a pressure tank, in particular in a motor vehicle. The monitoring apparatus is designed to determine current operating parameters of the pressure tank and, on the basis of the operating parameters, to calculate and preferably to display a maximum possible filling level for the pressure tank under the current operating parameters.

A gaseous fuel feeding system having a fuel supply line enclosed by a barrier wall system such that the fuel supply line includes a primary flow channel for the fuel and a secondary flow channel around the primary flow channel inside the barrier wall system, and a valve having a first fluid passage and a second fluid passage arranged to extend through the valve. The valve is coupled between the first and the second fuel supply line sections, such that the primary flow channel in the first fuel supply line section is in controllable flow connection with the primary flow channel in the second fuel supply line section via the first fluid passage of the valve. The secondary flow channel is in continuous flow connection with the secondary flow channel in the second fuel supply line section via the second fluid passage of the valve.

A transport refrigeration system (200) comprising: a vehicle (102) having a refrigerated cargo space (119); a refrigeration unit (22) in operative association with the refrigerated cargo space, the refrigeration unit providing conditioned air to the refrigerated cargo space; a first engine (26) configured to power the refrigeration unit; a plurality of first fuel tanks (330) fluidly connected to the first engine, the plurality of first fuel tanks configured to supply fuel to the first engine, wherein each of the plurality of first fuel tanks includes a lock off valve (450) and a pressure sensor (470) configured to detect a pressure level within each of the first fuel tanks; and one or more engine controllers (54) in electronic communication with each pressure sensor and lock off valve, the one or more engine controllers being configured to adjust at least one of the lock off valves in response to a pressure level detected by at least one of the pressure sensors.

A gas metering valve for an internal combustion engine. The gas metering valve includes a housing in which a gas chamber is formed, which includes an inlet opening and an outlet opening. A movable valve element is situated in the gas chamber, which is movable by an electrical actuator against the force of a return spring and which cooperates with a valve seat for opening and closing the inlet opening. A blocking valve is situated between the valve element and the outlet opening, which opens in the flow direction to the outlet opening and blocks in the opposite flow direction.

When a natural gas compressor completes its compression cycle, residual pressurized natural gas remains in the cylinders, valves, and conduits of the compressor. Gas leaks into the environment increasing greenhouse gas emissions and introducing safety concerns. The systems and methods herein provide ways for substantially reducing or eliminating leakage of natural gas to the atmosphere while the system sits idle between compression cycles.

A system can include a flow measurement device positionable in a flow path for measuring a property of the fuel flowing through the flow path and a shutdown device positionable in the flow path for controlling the fuel flow through the flow path. The system can also include a computing device that is communicatively coupled to the flow measurement device for receiving the fuel flow property and from which the presence of two-phase flow or multiphase flow can be detected. The computing device is also communicatively coupled to the shutdown device for controlling fuel flow through the flow path in response to the detection of two-phase flow or multiphase flow.

The present subject matter discloses the concept of multiple engine heads for one cylinder operating as Serially Operating Internal Combustion (SOIC) engine using Safe Pipe System (SPS) and other integrated systems, viz., Interim Storage of Gas (ISG) and Pre-Disposal Exhaust Treatment (PDET). SPS is in the form of a chamber having a main pipeline segregated into different interconnected SGC segments allowing and disrupting the flow of substantially pure H2 and substantially pure O2 gas in cold condition through the main pipeline; on receipt of command. SOIC includes at least one cylinder (32) and a plurality of engine heads (311, 312) filled with water; the gas entering the engine head in required volume forms a bubble in upper part of the engine head causing the sparking assemblies (51, 52) to ignite and create implosion first and explosion next in the engine heads; pushing the pistons (411, 412) and transmitting the force of explosion to the crankshaft assembly (431, 432) to produce torque or the force of explosion generated by IEEX-EM expelling the water out of cylinder (32) with high pressure being used for rotating turbine or for throwing projectile to produce energy.