Cooling structure for urea aqueous solution conduit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9394817-B2
Application number	US-201314414640-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 5, 2013
Priority date	Oct 25, 2012
Publication date	Jul 19, 2016
Grant date	Jul 19, 2016

Abstract

In a working vehicle, an exhaust gas aftertreatment device is provided in an engine compartment that is adjacent to a cooling fan through which cooling air is supplied to a heat exchanger. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device includes a selective catalytic reduction device in which ammonia obtained from a urea aqueous solution is used as a reduction-causing agent. A urea aqueous solution pipe through which the urea aqueous solution is supplied is laid to the selective catalytic reduction device through the engine compartment. In the engine compartment, a pipeline-forming member having pipelines in which the urea aqueous solution pipe is installed. The cooling air sucked by a cooling fan flows into the pipelines.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cooling structure of a urea aqueous solution pipe laid to a selective catalytic reduction device in an exhaust gas aftertreatment device, the exhaust gas aftertreatment device being provided in an engine compartment that is adjacent to a cooling fan through which cooling air is supplied to a heat exchanger, the heat exchanger being disposed in a heat exchanger compartment, an air in the heat exchanger compartment and the engine compartment being discharged by the cooling fan, the selective catalytic reduction device using ammonia obtained from a urea aqueous solution as a reduction-causing agent, the urea aqueous solution pipe supplying the urea aqueous solution to the selective catalytic reduction device through the engine compartment, the selective catalytic reduction device being disposed above an engine, and the cooling structure comprising:
a pipeline-forming member provided in the engine compartment and comprising a pipeline in which the urea aqueous solution pipe is arranged, the pipeline-forming member being provided at a position proximate to or in contact with an inside of a hood defining a ceiling of the engine compartment; and
an air intake hole that is provided to the hood to intercommunicate the pipeline with an outside of the engine compartment,
wherein:
an end of the pipeline intercommunicates with the heat exchanger compartment,
the urea aqueous solution pipe is disposed in the pipeline from a urea aqueous solution tank set under the heat exchanger compartment through the heat exchanger compartment and an end of the pipeline-forming member, and
the cooling air in a form of an outside air sucked by the cooling fan flows through the air intake hole into the pipeline to be delivered to the heat exchanger compartment to cool the urea aqueous solution pipe.

2. The cooling structure of the urea aqueous solution pipe according to claim 1 , wherein:
a portion of the hood under which the pipeline-forming member is positioned is detachable from a remaining portion of the hood, and
the pipeline-forming member is attached to the remaining portion of the hood.

3. A cooling structure of a urea aqueous solution pipe laid to a selective catalytic reduction device in an exhaust gas aftertreatment device, the exhaust gas aftertreatment device being provided in an engine compartment that is adjacent to a cooling fan through which cooling air is supplied to a heat exchanger, the heat exchanger being disposed in a heat exchanger compartment, an air in the heat exchanger compartment and the engine compartment being discharged by the cooling fan, the selective catalytic reduction device using ammonia obtained from a urea aqueous solution as a reduction-causing agent, the urea aqueous solution pipe supplying the urea aqueous solution to the selective catalytic reduction device through the engine compartment, the selective catalytic reduction device being disposed above an engine, and the cooling structure comprising:
a pipeline-forming member provided in the engine compartment and comprising a pipeline in which the urea aqueous solution pipe is arranged and an insulation space juxtaposed with the pipeline, the pipeline-forming member being provided at a position proximate to or in contact with an inside of a hood defining a ceiling of the engine compartment; and
an air intake hole that is provided to the hood to intercommunicate the pipeline with an outside of the engine compartment,
wherein:
an end of the pipeline intercommunicates with the heat exchanger compartment,
the urea aqueous solution pipe extends from a urea aqueous solution tank set under the heat exchanger compartment through the heat exchanger compartment and an end of the pipeline-forming member to be disposed in the pipeline,
and
the cooling air in a form of an outside air sucked by the cooling fan flows through the air intake hole to be delivered to the heat exchanger compartment to cool the urea aqueous solution pipe in at least one of the pipeline and the insulation space.

4. The cooling structure of the urea aqueous solution pipe according to claim 3 , wherein:
a portion of the hood under which the pipeline-forming member is positioned is detachable from a remaining portion of the hood, and
the pipeline-forming member is attached to the remaining portion of the hood.

Assignees

• Komatsu Mfg Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tsutsumi Katsuhiro
• Miyamoto Hirofumi

Classifications

• F01N3/0205

  using heat exchangers · CPC title

• F01N3/2066 Primary

  Selective catalytic reduction [SCR] · CPC title

• F28D9/0043

  the plates having openings therein for circulation of at least one heat-exchange medium from one conduit to another · CPC title

• B01D53/90

  Injecting reactants · CPC title

• B01D53/9431

  Processes characterised by a specific device · CPC title