eneral Information

WARNING
Natural Gas is highly flammable. Keep all cigarettes, sparks, arcing
switches and equipment, pilot lights, flames and other sources of ignition
out of work area and areas sharing ventilation. Work area must have
complete fresh air ventilation.

Vehicle Compressed Natural Gas System

In a typical vehicle CNG fuel system, the compressed gas is stored in high
pressure cylinders at 3000 psig to 3600 psig working pressure. Each cylinder
will normally have a manual shutoff valve, temperature and pressure relief
valve.

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The cylinders are connected to a fuel manifold and a safety vent system. Each
cylinder may have a high pressure solenoid shutoff valve located between the
cylinders and the fuel manifold. The fuel manifold has a refilling port, pressure
gauge and a manual shutoff valve.
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The safety vent system consists of relief valves in each cylinder connected to a
manifold. In the event of high pressure, the cylinder relief valve would vent the
gas to the atmosphere above the vehicle.

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From the fuel manifold shutoff valve (3), the gas flow is directed through the
high pressure regulators (1) which will typically reduce the pressure from the
storage tanks to approximately 100 PSIG. The rapid expansion of the gas
through the regulators acts as a refrigerant, absorbing heat and causing icing.
To prevent icing, the high pressure regulators are heated with engine coolant
(2).
The gas delivery system is typically equipped with an electronic solenoid shutoff
valves supplied by the OEM.

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Fuel System Gas Flow

The reduced high pressure gas, supplied from the OEM high pressure regulator
is plumbed through a remote mounted gas fuel filter. This filter is a coalescent
type filter that will capture oil contaminants and moisture typically found in
compressed natural gas.
The gas will enter the Fuel Control Housing inlet and pass through another
coalescent type fuel filter to further remove oil and other contaminants. The gas
will then pass through the Fuel Control Housing Low Pressure Regulator that
reduces the pressure of the natural gas to approximately 50 psig.
From the regulator the gas will flow through the Fuel Shutoff Valve. The Fuel
Shutoff Valve is normally closed until power (at least 9.5 volts) is supplied by
the ECM, electronic control module. The valve will not open until the ECM
detects engine speed.
The gas will now pass through a screen pack, or flow straightener, to reduce the
turbulent gas flow from the fuel shutoff valve. This screen pack is positioned
directly above the fuel shutoff valve.
Last Modified: 27-Jul-2007
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