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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
May. 18, 2010
Applicants:
Kaoru Maruta, Sendai, JP;
Hisashi Nakamura, Sendai, JP;
Soichiro Kato, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Assignees:
TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, , JP;
IHI CORPORATION, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 31/12 (2006.01); G01N 33/28 (2006.01); G01N 1/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/2829 (2013.01); G01N 1/22 (2013.01); G01N 31/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A fuel property determination method includes a reaction mechanism analysis process (S) of analyzing elementary reactions that compose chemical reactions between a plurality of types of initial materials including the materials that compose the fuel and obtaining the elementary reactions as fuel elementary reactions, and an octane number determination process (S) of calculating the combustion characteristics of the fuel by performing a simulation based on the fuel elementary reactions and determining the octane number based on the combustion characteristics of the fuel.