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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2007
Applicant:
Gholam-abbas Nazri, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Inventor:
Gholam-Abbas Nazri, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Assignee:
GM Global Technology Operations, Inc., Detroit, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02B 43/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Ammonia is used as precursor source of hydrogen fuel in an on-vehicle internal combustion engine. Ammonia is stored as, for example, a ligand in an on-vehicle transition metal composition. Upon demand for hydrogen by the vehicle's engine control system, ammonia is expelled as a gas from some of the composition and the ammonia gas is dissociated into a mixture of hydrogen and nitrogen and delivered as a fuel-containing mixture to the engine. In a preferred embodiment, the hydrogen is used as a supplement to gasoline as a fuel for engine operation.