System for recirculating engine exhaust gas

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9506427-B2
Application number	US-201314390288-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 4, 2013
Priority date	Apr 5, 2012
Publication date	Nov 29, 2016
Grant date	Nov 29, 2016

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a system for recirculating engine exhaust gas, and more particularly, to a system for recirculating engine exhaust gas, which mixes a part of exhaust gas discharged from an engine with air for combustion, and recirculates the mixture, thereby inhibiting nitrogen oxide (NOx) from being generated. Therefore, a technical problem to be achieved in the present disclosure is to provide a system for recirculating engine exhaust gas which may have a simplified structure. In addition, another object of the present disclosure is to provide a system for recirculating engine exhaust gas, which improves output of an engine by increasing an amount of intake air, and further improves fuel efficiency.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system for recirculating engine exhaust gas, comprising:
first and second cylinder groups which include cylinders selected from cylinders of an engine;
a first manifold which is connected to the first cylinder group, and is configured to combine and discharge exhaust gas discharged from the cylinders of the first cylinder group;
a second manifold which is connected to the second cylinder group, and is configured to combine and discharge exhaust gas discharged from the cylinders of the second cylinder group;
a branching unit which is connected to the first manifold and the second manifold, and at which exhaust gas discharged from both the first manifold and the second manifold is combined;
first and second exhaust lines each of which has one side that is connected to the branching unit, and has an other side that is connected to a turbine of a turbocharger, and which are configured to provide the turbine with the exhaust gas that branches off from the branching unit after being combined at the branching unit; and
a combining recirculation line which branches off from the branching unit, and is configured to guide a part of the exhaust gas combined at the branching unit to be combined with air to be intaken to the engine,
wherein all of the flow of the exhaust gas discharged from each of the first and second manifolds are combined at the branching unit, and then branch off to the first and second exhaust lines and the combining recirculation line.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a valve which is installed on the combining recirculation line, and is configured to inhibit a back pressure exchange phenomenon.

3. The system of claim 2 , further comprising:
a cooler which is connected to the combining recirculation line and is configured to:
cool the exhaust gas flowing from the combining recirculation line; and
supply the cooled exhaust gas to a mixer of the engine.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the branching unit is configured such that the first manifold, the second manifold, the first exhaust line, the second exhaust line, and the combining recirculation line communicate with each other at one point of the branching unit.

Assignees

• Doosan Infracore Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Taejoong
• Lee Dongin

Classifications

• F02M26/22

  with coolers in the recirculation passage · CPC title

• F02M26/23

  Layout, e.g. schematics · CPC title

• F02M26/14

  in relation to the exhaust system · CPC title

• F02B37/025

  Multiple scrolls or multiple gas passages guiding the gas to the pump drive · CPC title

• Y02T10/144

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic