Abstract: An exhaust gas heat exchanger includes a tube through which exhaust gas flows, a fin disposed in the tube, and protruded tabs protruded from the tube or the fin. Each of the protruded tabs is inclined to an upstream side, and has a polygonal shape more than a quadrilateral shape having at least a bottom side, one lateral side and another lateral side. An angle of the one lateral side to the bottom side is set smaller than 90 degrees and than an angle of the other lateral side to the bottom side. The bottom side is placed to intersect with a perpendicular direction to the exhaust gas flow direction, and the other lateral side is located upstream from the one lateral side. According to the exhaust gas heat exchanger, it is possible to improve heat exchange efficiency by generating a swirl flow for facilitating heat transfer effectively.
Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying device includes a cylindrical shell, a flow channel pipe, and a lid member. The pipe is connected to the shell along a radial direction of the shell. The shell is a member that is formed in a cylindrical shape having a pair of open ends, and in which exhaust gases flow. The shell has at least one shell-side fitting groove that is formed at one of the ends, and in which the pipe is fittable. The lid member is a member that closes the one of the pair of ends of the shell, and has at least one lid-side fitting groove that is formed at a position facing the at least one shell-side fitting groove, and in which the pipe is fittable. The at least one shell-side fitting groove and the at least one lid-side fitting groove fit the pipe therein by holding the pipe therebetween.
Abstract: An apparatus to use waste heat from an internal combustion engine in a vehicle, wherein the apparatus has an exhaust gas line to remove exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas line is thermally connected to a high-temperature side of a thermoelectric generator, and a latent heat accumulator is thermally connected to the high-temperature side of the thermoelectric generator.
Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment system includes a SCR device that stores a reductant that reacts with the NOx emissions and a reductant supply system to inject the reductant according to a reductant load model. At least one temperature sensor or model generates a temperature signal indicating an SCR temperature of the SCR device. The exhaust gas treatment system further includes a control module in electrical communication with the reductant supply system. The control module is configured to determine an amount of reductant that slips from the SCR device based on the at least one temperature signal and the rate of change of the SCR temperature. The control module further determines a correction factor based on the amount of slipped reductant to modify the reductant load model.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 5, 2013
Date of Patent:
July 28, 2015
Assignee:
GM Global Technology Operations LLC
Inventors:
Raffaello Ardanese, Justin Adam Shetney, James M. Perrin, Paul Jasinkiewicz
Abstract: A method for regeneration of a particle filter (202) pertaining to a combustion process, which filter treats exhaust gases arising from combustion in a combustion engine (101): During regeneration, controlling the engine (101) according to a first mode and a second mode, in the first mode, the engine (101) is controlled such that a high exhaust temperature is generated, determining a temperature of the particle filter (202), and controlling the engine (101) according to the first mode when the temperature determined is below a first value until the temperature reaches a higher second value, and then controlling the engine in the second mode. The invention relates also to a system and a vehicle (100).
Abstract: System, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for treating a reduction catalyst that has been exposed to an amount of sulfur. The treating of the reduction catalyst includes providing a fluid stream at a position upstream of the reduction catalyst. The fluid stream includes a temperature and a reductant amount, and the reductant amount includes an amount of urea, ammonia, or hydrocarbons.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 25, 2014
Date of Patent:
July 14, 2015
Assignee:
Cummins, Inc.
Inventors:
Aleksey Yezerets, Krishna Kamasamudram, Neal W. Currier, Ashok Kumar, Michael A. Smith
Abstract: A system and method for controlling temperature of a urea reductant to form ammonia for NOx reduction in a selective catalytic reducer coupled to a turbocharged engine exhaust by portioning a flow across the reductant of one or more of the following: a combination of compressed air and ambient air; and/or a combination of the exhaust upstream and downstream the turbine.
Abstract: A vehicle having an engine is disclosed. The vehicle includes an exhaust pipe receiving exhaust gas from the engine and a muffler connected to the exhaust pipe. An oxygen concentration sensor is disposed in a boss defining a port in the exhaust pipe. The boss includes a diameter greater than a widest dimension of the oxygen concentration sensor which may be in the form of a fin.
Abstract: The invention relates to a metering system for injecting a urea solution into the exhaust gas flow (9) of an internal combustion engine for selective catalytic reduction, and method for controlling the injecting of a urea solution by means of compressed air, wherein the metering system can be connected to a urea solution tank (1), wherefrom urea solution can be removed, and wherein the metering system can be connected to a compressed air supply (6), wherein the metering system comprises at least one nozzle (5) through which the urea solution can be injected into the exhaust gas flow (9) by means of compressed air, wherein the metering system comprises an air valve (7) by means of which the pressure and/or the quantity of air and/or the valve opening times of the compressed air supply (6) can be regulated, and a sensor for measuring the pressure and/or the quantity of air is disposed in the compressed air supply (6) between the air valve (7) and the nozzle (5), so that the quantity of compressed air fed in for
Abstract: A construction machine according to the disclosure includes a tank for receiving an additive provided for the treatment of exhaust gases of the construction machine, and the additive has a decomposition temperature. The construction machine furthermore comprises at least one connecting line which is configured to conduct the additive away from the tank and/or to the tank. A withdrawal unit is connected to the at least one connecting line and is configured to transport the additive from the tank to the at least one connecting line and/or from the at least one connecting line into the tank. The construction machine further comprises a heat management system configured to influence temperature of the additive in the tank such that it does not exceed the decomposition temperature of the additive.
Abstract: A selective catalytic reduction (SCR) device monitoring system includes an engine out NOx monitoring module, an SCR out NOx monitoring module configured and disposed to monitor NOx released from the SCR device, and a NOx storage model module operatively connected to the engine out NOx module and the SCR out NOx monitoring module. The NOx storage model module is configured and disposed to determine an amount of NOx stored in the SCR device. A consumed ammonia correction model module is operatively coupled to the NOx storage model module and configured and disposed to calculate a corrected consumed ammonia correction factor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 7, 2013
Date of Patent:
June 2, 2015
Assignee:
GM Global Technology Operations LLC
Inventors:
Raffaello Ardanese, Min Sun, Justin Adam Shetney, Shouxian Ren, Christopher P. Musienko
Abstract: A method, comprising purging a storage catalytic converter of stored NOx by diverting only a portion of incoming exhaust flow around the catalytic device while increasing injection of reductant to the storage catalytic converter; and responsive to the diverting, adjusting injection of an ammonia-containing fluid into recombined exhaust flow upstream of an SCR catalytic converter. Bypass of the storage catalytic converter reduces available oxygen and air flow through the storage catalytic converter, providing a more advantageous environment for reduction of NOx in the storage catalytic converter.
Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, inside of an engine exhaust passage, a hydrocarbon feed valve (15) and an exhaust purification catalyst (13) are arranged. The concentration of hydrocarbons which flow into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is made to vibrate within 200 ppm or more predetermined amplitude and within a 5 second or more predetermined period. At this time, when a predetermined amount or more of NOx is stored in the exhaust purification catalyst (13) or can be stored, the concentration of hydrocarbons flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is temporarily increased to desorb NOx which is stored at the exhaust purification catalyst (13).
Abstract: A method is provided for controlling a urea injection amount of a vehicle that controls urea injection in consideration of a difference between an internal temperature change rate and a regeneration temperature of an SCR integral diesel particulate filter.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 28, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 21, 2015
Assignees:
Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
Abstract: Various systems and method for detecting exhaust NOx sensor degradation are disclosed. In one example, degradation of the NOx sensor is indicated responsive to reductant injection in an exhaust passage under engine off conditions. For example, degradation of the NOx sensor is indicated when an actual NOx sensor output differs from an expected NOx sensor output by more than a threshold amount.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 13, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 21, 2015
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Inventors:
Devesh Upadhyay, In Kwang Yoo, Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt, David John Kubinski
Abstract: A mounting arrangement for attaching a pump arrangement to an exhaust pipe at a boss includes a delivery nozzle section and a remaining section including a pump body. The mounting arrangement includes a packing for supporting the pump body at the remaining section of the pump arrangement.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 20, 2010
Date of Patent:
April 14, 2015
Assignee:
Delphi International Operations Luxembourg S.A.R.L.
Inventors:
Keith E. Wright, Michael Peter Cooke, Phillip D. Thompson, Simon Coster, Nick J. Oldfield, Martin Paul Hardy
Abstract: A wheel loader includes an engine, a selective catalyst reduction device, and an injection device accommodated in an engine room defined by a vehicle body cover. The wheel loader further includes a partition plate, a reducing agent tank, a reducing agent pump, and a reducing agent pipe. The selective catalyst reduction device is for treating exhaust gas from the engine. The injection device is for injecting reducing agent into the exhaust gas fed from the engine toward the selective catalyst reduction device. The partition plate is disposed between the selective catalyst reduction device and the vehicle body cover. The reducing agent tank stores reducing agent. The reducing agent pump supplies the reducing agent from the reducing agent tank to the injection device. The reducing agent pipe connects the reducing agent pump and the injection device, and extends between the vehicle body cover and the partition plate inside the engine room.
Abstract: A vehicle and method of updating aging of a selective catalytic reduction filter (SCRF) of an exhaust treatment system of the vehicle are disclosed. The method includes determining a desorption rate estimate of a catalyst of the SCRF and determining an ash volume estimate representative of an amount of ash collected inside the SCRF. The method also includes determining an ash correction factor from the ash volume estimate and calculating, via a controller, a corrected desorption rate value by multiplying the ash correction factor with the desorption rate estimate to update the aging of the SCRF.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 15, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 14, 2015
Assignee:
GM Global Technology Operations LLC
Inventors:
Thomas Larose, Jr., Christopher Whitt, Christopher C. Swoish, Joshua Clifford Bedford
Abstract: An engine has an exhaust gas treatment apparatus attached thereto, wherein an exhaust pipe can be prevented from being damaged by a vibration of the engine body. An exhaust gas treatment apparatus is supported by an engine body and the engine body and the exhaust gas treatment apparatus communicate with each other through an exhaust pipe. The casing of the exhaust gas treatment apparatus consists of a plurality of casing units separable from each other. Connection flanges are disposed in respective end portions of the casing units. The casing units are coupled together by a connection of the connection flanges, and the exhaust gas treatment apparatus is supported by the engine body through the connection flanges.
Abstract: A process which solves the problem of supplying NO2 in accordance with requirements by means of temperature control of the precatalyst which is decoupled from the operating state of the engine. In an associated apparatus, a precatalyst which contains at least one oxidation component and whose temperature can be controlled independently of the operating state of the engine and an active SCR stage comprising an SCR catalyst with upstream metering facility for a reducing agent from an external source are arranged in series. A particle filter can be arranged between precatalyst and metering facility. The precatalyst preferably additionally contains a nitrogen oxide storage material.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 6, 2013
Date of Patent:
March 31, 2015
Assignee:
Umicore AG & Co. KG
Inventors:
Lothar Mussmann, Ingo Lappas, Andreas Geisselmann, Wilfried Mueller