Nitrogen oxides reduction agent injection arrangement
AssigneeVolvo Truck Corporation
InventorsNageswaran Kanniaraj, Praveen Chougala
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Abstract
A nitrogen oxides reduction agent injection arrangement for injecting a nitrogen oxides reduction agent, such as urea, into an exhaust conduit forming part of an exhaust system for an internal combustion engine system. The nitrogen oxides reduction agent injection arrangement comprises a nozzle that is adapted to inject the nitrogen oxides reduction agent into the interior of the exhaust conduit via a nozzle opening of the nozzle. The nozzle comprises a nozzle opening control portion made of a shape memory material whereby a size and/or a shape of the nozzle opening is dependent on at least a temperature of the nozzle opening control portion.
Claims12
A nitrogen oxides reduction agent injection arrangement for injecting a nitrogen oxides reduction agent into an exhaust conduit forming part of an exhaust system for an internal combustion engine system, comprising:
- a plurality of nozzles adapted to be evenly distributed around a circumference of the exhaust conduit, wherein the exhaust conduit has a cross section with a cross sectional center and wherein each nozzle of the plurality of nozzles is adapted to inject the nitrogen oxides reduction agent towards the cross sectional center;
- a source of the nitrogen oxides reduction agent and a single dosing unit for controlling a flow of the nitrogen oxides reduction agent from the source of the nitrogen oxides reduction agent to a nozzle opening of each one of the plurality of nozzles;
- each nozzle being adapted to inject the nitrogen oxides reduction agent into an interior of the exhaust conduit via the nozzle opening of each nozzle, each nozzle comprising a nozzle opening control portion made of a shape memory material whereby a size and/or a shape of the nozzle opening is dependent on at least a temperature of the nozzle opening control portion;
- each nozzle comprising a heating element at least thermally connected to the nozzle opening control portion;
- a sensor for sensing exhaust gas information indicative of at least one of the following:
- a temperature, a mixing pressure, and a flow speed, of an exhaust gas in the exhaust conduit upstream of the plurality of nozzle;
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- a control unit adapted to receive the exhaust gas information and to control a heating of the heating elements in response to the exhaust gas information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.