A method for determining a fuel characteristic, the method including receiving a gaseous fuel within a gaseous fuel rail of a dual fuel engine configured to run on at least the gaseous fuel and a diesel fuel. The method may include receiving a pressure sig...

PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED: To identify the type and distillation properties for light oils having various compositions different from each other in distillation properties in an accurate and rapid manner. MEANS FOR SOLUTION: A pulse voltage is applied for a pr...

A fuel delivery system for an internal combustion engine is disclosed which has an injector for delivering diesel fuel, and a fuel delivery system for delivering liquid petroleum gas fuel. The fuels are delivered concurrently to the engine. A first transdu...

A fuel property determination system for an internal combustion engine (1) is comprised of a specific gravity detecting section (30) which detects a specific gravity of fuel used in the engine and a fuel property detecting section (30) which detects at lea...

An apparatus 10 monitors at least one fuel quality characteristic of fuel passing through a fuel delivery system 12 of a motor vehicle. The apparatus 10 includes a fuel rail assembly 18 connectable to the fuel delivery system 12 of the motor vehicle. A fue...

An apparatus and method for determining an approximation to a measure of the volatility of fuel on-board a vehicle having an internal combustion engine. The method includes the steps of measuring at least one characteristic of the fuel (14) corresponding t...

A method to calculate a fuel driveability index (DI) value is provided from a sample of fuel in a container as tested by the industry standard ASTM D86 test (28) providing particular temperature data at various percentages of evaporation as the container i...