Patent ID: 6382264
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: H01M,Y02E,Y02P

Abstract:
A recyclable fuel supply system comprising a hierarchy of:a) at least one central processing plant for recycling spent fuel products into fresh fuel; b) vehicle means for transport of fuel to remote storage facilities or directly to fuel reservoirs for direct use by consumers of fuel contained therein; and for collection of spent fuel from said remote storage sites and fuel reservoirs; c) optional storage facilities for local containment of fuel for distribution thereof to local reservoirs for consumers of said fuel; d) local reservoirs of consumers for direct use by consumers of fuel contained therein in one or more utilization devices, wherein each of said central processing plant, vehicle means, optional storage facilities, local reservoirs and optionally utilization devices, comprises a container connectable to a fuel take-up element and a spent fuel exhaust wherein said container comprises at least two chambers of inversely variable volume disposed within said container for respectively storing a quantity of fuel and receiving a quantity of exhaust; and means for decreasing the volume of one of said chambers while concurrently increasing the volume of the other of said chambers concomitantly with increase in volume of fuel or spent fuel and decrease in volume of the other of said fuel a or spent fuel.