Motor-Vehicle Internal Combustion Engine with Exhaust-Gas Recirculation

• US 20130269327A1
• Filed: 10/18/2011
• Published: 10/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Daimler AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Daimler AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Inventors: Keppeler, Berthold
• Granted Patent: US 8,833,059 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 60/301
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 13/009 having two or more separate purifying devices arranged in series
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 13/02 having two or more separate silencers in series
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2240/36 an exhaust flap
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2610/02 the substance being ammonia or urea
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2610/1453 Sprayers or atomisers; Arrangement thereof in the exhaust apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/035 with catalytic reactors , e.g. catalysed diesel particulate filters
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/08 for rendering innocuous using electric or electrostatic separators F01N3/01; chemical aspects B01D53/92
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/103 Oxidation catalysts for HC and CO only
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/2066 Selective catalytic reduction [SCR]
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/004 with exhaust drives arranged in series
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/013 with exhaust-driven pumps arranged in series
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/162 by bypassing, e.g. partially, intake air from pump inlet to pump outlet
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/18 by bypassing exhaust from the inlet to the outlet of turbine or to the atmosphere
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 26/05 High pressure loops, i.e. wherein recirculated exhaust gas is taken out from the exhaust system upstream of the turbine and reintroduced into the intake system downstream of the compressor
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 26/06 Low pressure loops, i.e. wherein recirculated exhaust gas is taken out from the exhaust downstream of the turbocharger turbine and reintroduced into the intake system upstream of the compressor
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 26/08 for engines having two or more intake charge compressors or exhaust gas turbines, e.g. a turbocharger combined with an additional compressor
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 26/15 in relation to engine exhaust purifying apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 50/20 Air quality improvement or preservation, e.g. vehicle emission control or emission reduction by using catalytic converters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

A motor vehicle combustion engine includes an air supply section and an exhaust gas recirculation section that includes a particle filter and an SCR exhaust gas purification component. A first exhaust gas turbocharger includes a turbine arranged upstream of the particle filter in the exhaust gas section. A first exhaust gas recirculation line, which diverges from the exhaust gas section upstream of the turbine of the first exhaust gas turbocharger, and a second exhaust gas recirculation line, which diverges from the exhaust gas section downstream of the particle filter are provided to recirculate the exhaust gas from the exhaust gas section into the air supply system. An SCR catalyst is arranged in the second exhaust gas recirculation line.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. A motor vehicle combustion engine, comprising:

an air supply system configured to supply combustion air to the combustion engine;

an exhaust gas section configured to receive an exhaust gas of the combustion engine, wherein the exhaust gas section includes a particle filter and an SCR exhaust gas purification component, which is capable of selective catalytic nitrogen oxide reduction by means of ammonia;

an addition device configured to add ammonia or a reduction means configured to separate ammonia to the exhaust gas section upstream of the SCR exhaust gas purification component;

an first exhaust gas turbocharger that includes a turbine arranged upstream of the particle filter in the exhaust gas section; and

wherein in order to recirculate the exhaust gas from the exhaust gas section into the air supply system, the motor vehicle combustion engine further comprises

a first exhaust gas recirculation line, which diverges from the exhaust gas section upstream of the turbine of the first exhaust gas turbocharger; and

a second exhaust gas recirculation line, which diverges from the exhaust gas section downstream of the particle filter, wherein the second exhaust gas recirculation line include an SCR catalyst.

11. The motor vehicle combustion engine according to claim 10, wherein the SCR exhaust gas purification component is a catalytic coating of the particle filter or a separate SCR catalyst component arranged upstream or downstream of the particle filter in the exhaust gas section.

12. The motor vehicle combustion engine according to claim 10, further comprising:

an oxidation catalyst in the exhaust gas section arranged downstream of the turbine of the first exhaust gas turbocharger, and upstream of the particle filter.

13. The motor vehicle combustion engine according to claim 12, wherein the motor vehicle combustion engine is configured so that ammonia can be added or the reduction means is capable of separating ammonia to the exhaust gas section downstream of the oxidation catalyst and upstream of the particle filter.

14. The motor vehicle combustion engine according to claim 12, further comprising:

a further oxidation catalyst arranged in the exhaust gas section upstream of the oxidation catalyst or downstream of the particle filter.

15. The motor vehicle combustion engine according to claim 10, further comprising:

adjustment means configured to adjust a recirculated amount of exhaust gas, the adjustment means comprises

an adjustable restrictor element arranged in the exhaust gas section downstream of a point of divergence of the second exhaust gas recirculation line or in the second exhaust gas recirculation line of an in-flow point into the air supply system thereof, or

an adjustable restrictor element, arranged in the first exhaust gas recirculation line of the in-flow point into the air supply system thereof.

16. The motor vehicle combustion engine according to claim 10, further comprising:

a second exhaust gas turbocharger, which includes a turbine arranged downstream of the turbine of the first exhaust gas turbocharger in the exhaust gas section.

17. The motor vehicle combustion engine according to claim 10, further comprising:

a circumventable charge air cooler arranged in the air supply system, which is configured to cool compressed combustion air.

18. The motor vehicle combustion engine according to claim 10, further comprising:

an exhaust gas cooler arranged in the first exhaust gas recirculation line or the second exhaust gas recirculation line, which is configured to cool exhaust gas recirculated to the air supply system.

19. The motor vehicle combustion engine according to claim 18, further comprising:

a bypass line provided for the exhaust gas cooler arranged in the first exhaust gas recirculation line or in the second exhaust gas recirculation line.

20. The motor vehicle combustion engine according to claim 10, wherein the SCR catalyst arranged in the second exhaust gas recirculation line is a supported honeycomb body with an SCR catalyst material coating.

21. The motor vehicle combustion engine according to claim 20, wherein the SCR catalyst material coating is applied to a particle filter structure that is configured to filter particles.

22. The motor vehicle combustion engine according to claim 10, further comprising:

a nitrogen oxide storage catalyst arranged in the exhaust gas section upstream or downstream of the particle filter.