A fuel for a combustion engine comprising 95.00% to 99.75% by mass of ammonia and 0.25% to 5.00% by mass of a pilot fuel consisting of a hydrocarbon having a cetane number of more than 60 and containing 0.02% to 30.0% by mass of an alkyl nitrate or a mixture of alkyl nitrates. The invention also relates to a method for obtaining such a fuel.
C10L 10/00 - Use of additives to fuels or fires for particular purposes
F02D 19/06 - Controlling engines characterised by their use of non-liquid fuels, pluralities of fuels, or non-fuel substances added to the combustible mixtures peculiar to engines working with pluralities of fuels, e.g. alternatively with light and heavy fuel oil, other than engines indifferent to the fuel consumed
F23R 3/34 - Feeding into different combustion zones
F02M 21/02 - Apparatus for supplying engines with non-liquid fuels, e.g. gaseous fuels stored in liquid form for gaseous fuels
F02M 37/00 - Apparatus or systems for feeding liquid fuel from storage containers to carburettors or fuel-injection apparatusArrangements for purifying liquid fuel specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines
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METHANOL-BASED ENGINE FUEL CONTAINING A COMBUSTION-ENHANCING ADDITIVE
The invention relates to a fuel for a compression ignition engine, comprising 98.0% to 99.9% by mass of methanol and 0.01% to 2.0% by mass of an alkyl nitrate or a mixture of alkyl nitrates.