Patent ID: 7744827
Filing Date: 2010-06-29
Classification: C10G,F02C,F02M,F23K,Y02T

Abstract:
1. An aircraft fuel delivery assembly for supplying fuel to an aircraft engine comprising: a catalyst receiving fuel from a fuel tank onboard an aircraft and disposed upstream of the aircraft engine, wherein the catalyst includes; a first stage that includes a first catalytic material for converting dissolved oxygen into at least one of a coking resistant oxygenate, a sulfoxide and a sulfones; a second stage including a second catalyst material that reacts active organic moieties with di-oxygen to form hydroperoxide; and a third stage receiving fuel flow exiting from at least one of said first stage and said second stage, wherein the third stage includes a third catalytic material that decomposes hydroperoxide formed at said second stage and within the fuel into non-coke producing organic oxygenates.