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AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsHubert Dettling, Rolf Leonhard, Ulrich Projahn
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An apparatus for burning solid particles, in particular soot particles, in the exhaust gas of internal combustion engines having a combustion chamber and an ignition burner connected coaxially through an overflow opening. The combustion chamber includes an annular cup portion forming a hot combustion chamber that is open toward the overflow opening, and downstream of this hot combustion chamber has a plurality of labyrinthine annular conduits toward which a plunger tube extends centrally toward the combustion chamber, through which tube a flow of exhaust gas carrying the soot particles is directed into the hot combustion chamber. The flow of exhaust gas having the soot particles emerges into the hot combustion chamber through radial outlets transversely to the direction of extension of the ignition flame that is propagating through the overflow opening. The soot particles that are supplied are for the most part burned in the hot combustion chamber, and the remainder is burned in the labyrinthine conduits. The exhaust gas from the burner is carried away in a counter current to the exhaust gas laden with soot particles that is delivered to the plunger tube.
An apparatus for burning solid particles, in particular soot particles, in an exhaust gas of internal combustion engines, comprising an overflow opening (6), a cylindrical first combustion chamber (1) formed by a jacket (2), a fuel mixture preparation chamber (4) communicating with said combustion chamber (1) through said overflow opening (6), an ignition burner for generating a pilot flame in said preparation chamber, said pilot flame being oriented through said overflow opening into said combustion chamber (1), a plunger tube (10) protruding coaxially into said combustion chamber toward said overflow opening, said plunger tube (10) having at least one outlet (12) through which a flow of gas (15) laden with the solid particles (14) is directed into said combustion chamber, a combustion gas removal tube (20) partially surrounding the plunger tube (10) which carries a combustion gas (27) to an exhaust outlet (26), said at least one outlet (12) of said plunger tube (10) arranged to discharge radially, and a second combustion chamber (19) opening toward said overflow opening (6) and spaced apart radially from the wall of the first combustion chamber (1) is arranged to surround said plunger tube in the vicinity of said at least one outlet in such a manner that a combustion flame ignited by the pilot flame is retained within a limited volume having a hot core zone.
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