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US 2020/0269189 A1Published application
Automotive exhaust aftertreatment system having a swirl-back mixer
AssigneeFaurecia Emissions Control Technologies, USA, LLC
InventorsEduardo Alano, Amaresh Rakkasagi, Laurent Poinsot
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Abstract
An automotive exhaust aftertreatment system includes a reducing agent mixer. The reducing agent mixer includes a mixer body and doser that injects a reducing agent into the mixer body. The reducing agent mixer mixes an exhaust stream and the reducing agent prior to the exhaust stream being discharged from the reducing agent mixer.
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An exhaust aftertreatment system for use with a diesel engine, the system comprising
- a mixer body defining an engine exhaust gas passageway that extends along a primary axis,
- a doser configured to discharge reducing agent (DEF) into the engine exhaust gas passageway along a doser axis perpendicular to the primary axis, and
- a reducing agent delivery sub-assembly, the sub-assembly including
- a swirl unit arranged along a doser axis perpendicular to the primary axis of the mixer body, the swirl unit defining a swirl chamber configured receive the reducing agent from the doser and to induce rotation into an exhaust stream moving through the exhaust aftertreatment system to encourage mixing with the reducing agent and discharge a mixture of the exhaust stream and the reducing agent from the swirl chamber along the doser axis, and
- a flow-back unit positioned downstream of the swirl unit and shaped to cause the mixture of the exhaust stream and the reducing agent discharged from the swirl chamber to make a first 180 degree turn in a first direction and to make a second 180 degree turn in a second direction.
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A vehicle configured for over the road transportation, the vehicle comprising
- a combustion engine, and
- an automotive exhaust aftertreatment system coupled to the combustion engine to receive an exhaust stream from the combustion engine, the automotive exhaust aftertreatment system including a mixer body defining an engine exhaust gas passageway that extends along a primary axis, a doser configured to discharge reducing agent (DEF) into the engine exhaust gas passageway along a doser axis perpendicular to the primary axis, and a reducing agent delivery sub-assembly,
- wherein the reducing agent sub-assembly includes a swirl unit arranged along a doser axis perpendicular to the primary axis of the mixer body and a flow-back unit positioned downstream of the swirl unit,
- wherein the swirl unit defines a swirl chamber configured receive the reducing agent from the doser and to induce rotation into the exhaust stream to encourage mixing with the reducing agent and discharge a mixture of the exhaust stream and the reducing agent from the swirl chamber along the doser axis, and
- wherein the flow-back unit is shaped to cause the mixture of the exhaust stream and the reducing agent discharged from the swirl chamber to make a first 180 degree turn in a first direction and to make a second 180 degree turn in a second direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.