Engine system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9915230-B2
Application number	US-201615297896-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 19, 2016
Priority date	Nov 12, 2015
Publication date	Mar 13, 2018
Grant date	Mar 13, 2018

Abstract

An engine system is provided that includes a cylinder, an exhaust flow part, a purifying system, a water injector for injecting supercritical/subcritical water into the cylinder, a water supply passage connected with the water injector and for supplying the water, a first temperature increasing device disposed at a position of the exhaust flow part and for increasing a water temperature, and a second temperature increasing device including a part of the exhaust flow part and a part of the water supply passage, and for increasing a water temperature. The first device increases the water temperature when an exhaust gas temperature passing through the position of the exhaust flow part exceeds a reference temperature. The second device increases the water temperature when an exhaust gas temperature passing through the part of the exhaust flow part is above a water temperature passing the part of the water supply passage.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An engine system including a cylinder, an exhaust flow part where exhaust gas generated within the cylinder flows, and a purifying system provided to the exhaust flow part and for purifying the exhaust gas, comprising:
a water injector for injecting one of supercritical water and subcritical water into the cylinder;
a water supply passage connected with the water injector and for supplying the one of the supercritical water and the subcritical water to the water injector;
a first temperature increasing device disposed at a position of the exhaust flow part and for increasing a temperature of water inside the water supply passage by using energy of the exhaust gas; and
a second temperature increasing device including a part of the exhaust flow part and a part of the water supply passage, and for increasing a temperature of the water inside the water supply passage by using energy of the exhaust gas,
wherein the first temperature increasing device increases the temperature of the water inside the water supply passage when a temperature of the exhaust gas passing through the position of the exhaust flow part exceeds a reference temperature, the position of the first temperature increasing device being closer to the cylinder than the purifying system and the second temperature increasing device, and
wherein the second temperature increasing device increases the temperature of the water inside the water supply passage when a temperature of the exhaust gas passing through the part of the exhaust flow part is above a temperature of the water passing through the part of the water supply passage.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first temperature increasing device is a heat pipe accommodating a medium of which a boiling point is close to the reference temperature, and increases the temperature of the water inside the water supply passage via the medium.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the reference temperature is 600 K or above.

4. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a pump provided at a position of the water supply passage downstream of the second temperature increasing device, and for pumping water passing therethrough.

5. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a condenser provided at a position of the exhaust flow part downstream of the second temperature increasing device, and for condensing water within the exhaust gas in the exhaust flow part,
wherein the water supply passage supplies the water condensed by the condenser to the water injector.

6. The system of claim 5 , further comprising a condensed water tank provided at a position of the water supply passage between the second temperature increasing device and the condenser, and for storing the condensed water; and
a low-pressure pump provided at a position of the water supply passage between the condensed water tank and the second temperature increasing device, and for pumping the water inside the condensed tank to the second temperature increasing device.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the purifying system is disposed at a position of the exhaust flow part upstream of the second temperature increasing device, so as to be adjacent thereto, and
wherein the purifying system is covered by a heat accumulation agent.

Assignees

• Mazda Motor

Inventors

• Fujimoto Masahiko
• Yamashita Hiroyuki
• Araki Keiji

Classifications

• F02M25/038 Primary

  into the cylinder {or the pre-combustion chamber} · CPC title

• Y02T10/121

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F02M25/03

  into the cylinder {or the pre-combustion chamber} · CPC title

• F02B47/02

  the substances being water or steam · CPC title

• Y02T10/12

  Improving ICE efficiencies · CPC title