EXHAUST GAS FLOWMETER AND EXHAUST GAS ANALYZING SYSTEM

• US 20140338540A1
• Filed: 05/15/2014
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Horiba Limited
• Original Assignee: Horiba Limited
• Inventors: YOSHIMURA, Tomoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,410,872 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 96/413
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2560/07 the means being an exhaust gas flow rate or velocity meter or sensor, intake flow meters only when exclusively used to determine exhaust gas parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 1/704 using marked regions or existing inhomogeneities within the fluid stream, e.g. statistically occurring variations in a fluid parameter G01F1/76, G01F25/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 9/00 Measuring volume flow relative to another variable, e.g. of liquid fuel for an engine
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 15/108 using optical methods
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 1/2252 in a vehicle exhaust
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2001/2255 with dilution of the sample
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/3504 for analysing gases, e.g. multi-gas analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/3554 for determining moisture content
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/61 Non-dispersive gas analysers G01N21/3504 takes precedence

Abstract

The present invention is adapted to be provided with: a first sampling line for sampling raw exhaust gas; a first concentration measuring part that measures the concentration of the predetermined target component contained in the raw exhaust gas; a second sampling line for sampling diluted exhaust gas; a second concentration measuring part that measures the concentration of the target component contained in the diluted exhaust gas; and an arithmetic unit that, with use of first measured concentration, second measured concentration, and a diluted exhaust gas flow rate, calculates a raw exhaust gas flow rate, wherein in a state where the first sampling line and the first concentration measuring part are heated, the first concentration measuring part measures the concentration of the target component contained in the raw exhaust gas.

Claims

1. An exhaust gas flowmeter used for an exhaust gas dilution system that is provided with:

a main flow path through which exhaust gas emitted from an internal combustion engine flows; and

a diluent gas flow path through which diluent gas for diluting the exhaust gas flows, the diluent gas flow path meeting the main flow path, the exhaust gas flowmeter comprising;

a first sampling line for, from an upstream side of a meeting point between the main flow path and the diluent gas flow path in the main flow path, sampling raw exhaust gas that is the exhaust gas before the dilution;

a first concentration measuring part that is provided in the first sampling line to measure concentration of a predetermined target component contained in the raw exhaust gas;

a second sampling line for, from a downstream side of the meeting point in the main flow path, sampling diluted exhaust gas that is the exhaust gas after the dilution;

a second concentration measuring part that is provided in the second sampling line to measure concentration of the target component contained in the diluted exhaust gas; and

an arithmetic unit that, with use of first measured concentration obtained by the first concentration measuring part, second measured concentration obtained by the second concentration measuring part, and a diluted exhaust gas flow rate that is a flow rate of the diluted exhaust gas, calculates a raw exhaust gas flow rate that is a flow rate of the raw exhaust gas, wherein

in a state where the first sampling line and the first concentration measuring part are heated, the first concentration measuring part measures the concentration of the target component contained in the raw exhaust gas.

2. The exhaust gas flowmeter according to claim 1, wherein

in a state where the second sampling line and the second concentration measuring part are heated, the second concentration measuring part measures the concentration of the target component contained in the diluted exhaust gas.

3. The exhaust gas flowmeter according to claim 1, wherein

the heated concentration measuring part comprises:

a moisture concentration meter that measures moisture concentrations in the exhaust gas; and

a target component concentration meter that measures moisture-influenced concentration that is concentration of the target component in the exhaust gas in a state of being influenced by moisture, and

calculates the concentration of the target component contained in the exhaust gas as concentration that is the moisture-influenced concentration from which an influence of the moisture is removed with use of the moisture concentration.

4. An exhaust gas analyzing system using the exhaust gas flowmeter according to claim 1.