SCR system with compensation element and motor vehicle having an SCR system

• US 8,398,924 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2011
• Issued: 03/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emitec Gesellschaft für Emissionstechnologie mbH (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Emitec Gesellschaft für Emissionstechnologie mbH (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Hodgson, Jan, Brck, Rolf
• Primary Examiner(s): Duong, Tom
• Application Number:
  US13/036,188
• Publication Number:
  US 20110194987A1
• Time in Patent Office: 750 Days
• Field of Search: 422/177, 422/180, 422/170, 285/49, 285/226, 285/300
• US Class Current: 422/168
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 13/1811 with means permitting relative movement, e.g. compensation of thermal expansion or vibration
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 13/1816 the pipe sections being joined together by flexible tubular elements only, e.g. using bellows or strip-wound pipes
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2260/10 for avoiding stress caused by expansions or contractions due to temperature variations
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2610/02 the substance being ammonia or urea
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2610/14 Arrangements for the supply of substances, e.g. conduits
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/2066 Selective catalytic reduction [SCR]
• 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

An SCR system includes at least one reducing agent tank, a filter, a feed device and a reducing agent line for feeding and conducting a reducing agent. At least one compensation element has a volume through which the reducing agent flows and is suitable for varying the volume as a function of a reducing agent pressure. A motor vehicle having an SCR system is also provided.

Claims

1. An SCR system, comprising:

at least one reducing agent tank, a filter, a conveying device and a reducing agent line for conveying and conducting a reducing agent; and

at least one one-piece, metallic, compensation element having a volume through which the reducing agent flows;

said at least one compensation element configured for varying said volume as a function of a reducing agent pressure;

said at least one compensation element having at least one surface part under a preload, said at least one surface part being movable counter to said preload at a certain reducing agent pressure for increasing said volume of said at least one compensation element through which the reducing agent flows, said preload reversing above a certain pressure and said volume of said at least one compensation element changing abruptly.

2. The SCR system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one compensation element is constructed in the form of a bellows.

3. The SCR system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one compensation element behaves rigidly up to a reducing agent pressure of at least 5 bar, and said volume of said at least one compensation element increases significantly with further increasing pressure.

4. The SCR system according to claim 3, wherein said reducing agent pressure of at least 5 bar is at least 10 bar.

5. The SCR system according to claim 1, which further comprises a metering unit, said reducing agent tank, said filter, said conveying device, said reducing agent line and said metering unit being components of the SCR system, and a screw connection connects said at least one compensation element to at least one of said components.

6. The SCR system according to claim 1, wherein said volume of said at least one compensation element is configured to accommodate an entire increase in volume of the reducing agent in the SCR system when the reducing agent freezes.

7. The SCR system according to claim 1, wherein the SCR system has a system volume to be increased by said at least one compensation element by an expansion volume, and said expansion volume amounts to between 2% and 15% of said system volume.

8. A motor vehicle, comprising an SCR system according to claim 1.

9. The SCR system according to claim 1, wherein said abrupt volume change of said at least one compensation element is discontinuous.