Exhaust gas aftertreatment device for a combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9670816-B2
Application number	US-201314134788-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 19, 2013
Priority date	Dec 20, 2012
Publication date	Jun 6, 2017
Grant date	Jun 6, 2017

Abstract

An exhaust gas aftertreatment device for a combustion engine includes an exhaust gas guide element that includes a dosage device for introducing a reduction agent into the guide element at a feed point and at least one interference element arranged upstream of the feed point, that introduces turbulences into the exhaust gas flow that is intermixed with the reduction agent. The guide element also includes a first guide portion, through which exhaust gas flows in a first flow direction, and a second guide portion, through which exhaust gas flows in a second flow direction that is opposite to the first flow direction. The first and second guide portions are fluidically connected with each other via a third guide portion, which redirects the exhaust gas from the first flow direction into the second flow direction. The feed point and the interference element are arranged in the third guide portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An exhaust gas aftertreatment device for a combustion engine, the exhaust gas aftertreatment device comprising:
a guide element configured to receive exhaust gas of the combustion engine, wherein the guide element comprises
at least one first guide portion configured to receive the exhaust gas in a first flow direction; and
at least one second guide portion configured to pass the exhaust gas can flow in a second flow direction that is contrary to the first flow direction;
a third guide portion fluidically connecting the first guide portion to the second guide portion and configured to redirect the exhaust gas from the first flow direction into the second flow direction, wherein the third guide portion has a flow cross-section through which the exhaust gas can flow, the flow cross-section being formed by a first partial area and a second partial area being larger than the first partial area, wherein the first partial area is closer positionally to the at least one second guide portion than to the at least one first guide portion;
a dosage device configured to feed a reduction agent for the exhaust gas aftertreatment at least at one feed point arranged in the third guide portion; and
at least one interference element arranged in the first partial area of the cross-section of the third guide portion upstream of the feed point and having a plurality of flow through openings for the exhaust gas, wherein the interference element is configured to introduce a turbulence into the exhaust gas flow that is intermixed with the reduction agent, wherein a sum of surfaces of the flow through openings of the interference element is larger than the sum of remaining surface of the interference element, and wherein the at least one interference element has approximately a flat surface and the flat surface is arranged laterally in the third guide portion.

2. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device according to claim 1 , wherein the interference element is a perforated baffle.

3. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device according to claim 1 , wherein the flat surface extends at least essentially perpendicularly to the flow direction of the exhaust gas in the third guide portion.

4. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device according to claim 3 , wherein the flow through openings are arranged in the flat surface.

5. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device according to claim 3 , wherein the interference element has at least one flange extending at an angle or perpendicularly to the flat surface, via which the interference element is connected to the third guide portion.

6. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device according to claim 3 , wherein the interference element has at least one side contacting a wall of the third guide portion in an area of the wall, the at least one side having outer contour adapted to the area of the wall.

7. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
at least one particle filter; and
at least one selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic converter.

8. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device according to claim 7 , wherein during operation of the combustion engine, exhaust gas of the combustion engine flows through the at least one particle filter in the first flow direction.

9. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device according to claim 7 , wherein during operation of the combustion engine, exhaust gas of the combustion engine flows through the at least one SCR catalytic converter in the second flow direction.

10. An exhaust gas aftertreatment device for a combustion engine, the exhaust gas aftertreatment device comprising:
a guide element configured to receive exhaust gas of the combustion engine, the guide element comprising
a dosage device, arranged at least at one feed point, configured to feed a reduction agent for the exhaust gas aftertreatment into the guide element;
at least one interference element arranged upstream of the feed point in the guide element, wherein the at least one interface element is configured to generate turbulence in the flow the exhaust gas that is intermixed with the reduction agent;
at least one first guide portion configured to recieve the exhaust gas in a first flow direction;
at least one second guide portion configured to pass the exhaust gas in a second flow direction that is contrary to the first flow direction;

wherein the at least one first guide portion and the at least one second guide portion are fluidically connected with each other via a third guide portion of the guide element, wherein the third guide portion redirects the exhaust gas from the first flow direction into the second flow direction, wherein the third guide portion has a flow cross-section through which the exhaust gas can flow, the flow cross-section being formed by a first partial area and a second partial area being larger that the first partial area, wherein the first partial area is closer positionally to the at least one second guide portion than to the at least one first guide portion, wherein the feed point and the interference element have at least one flow through opening for the exhaust gas are arranged in the third guide portion, and wherein the at least one interference element has approximately a flat surface and the flat surface is arranged laterally in the third guide portion, and
wherein at least one particle filter and at least one selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalytic converter are arranged in the aftertreatment device, wherein during operation of the combustion engine the at least one particle filter is flown through by exhaust gas of the combustion engine in the first flow direction, and the at least one SCR catalytic converter is flown through by exhaust gas of the combustion engine in the second flow direction.

Assignees

• Daimler Ag

Inventors

• Quan Peng
• Girbach Jeffrey
• Hudson Daniel
• Singh Inderpal

Classifications

• Y02T10/12

  Improving ICE efficiencies · CPC title

• B01F5/0451

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B01F5/0648

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• F01N2240/20

  a flow director or deflector · CPC title

• Y02T10/24

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic