Method and device for depolluting combustion gases
AssigneeS.F.T. Services SA
InventorVitale Bruzzo
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Abstract
The invention concerns a device for depolluting combustion gases set along the exhaust line of the gases. The device has a gas cooling chamber (9, 10) lowering the gas temperature to near 0 degrees Celsius. In one particular embodiment of the invention, the energy of the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine is used for providing the cold required for the depollution process.
Claims11
A depollution device of the combustion gases placed along the exhaust circuit of said gases, assembled on a motor vehicle, comprising a boiler (1) in which the thermal energy supplied by the exhaust gases produces the evaporation of a mixture coolant-absorbent, a liquid separator (3) situated at the exit of the top part of the boiler (1), an evaporator (9) allowing the cooling of the exhaust gases followed by an absorber (11) for the recombination of the mixture coolant-absorbent, characterised in that it comprises a catalyst (23) placed at the exit of the engine's gases and before the boiler (1), an expansion valve (8) placed upstream of the evaporator (9) the latter being assembled on an exhaust box (10) and upstream of the absorber (11) situated at the exit of the boiler (1), a pump (12) downstream of the absorber (11) to send the mixture coolant-absorbent into the boiler (1) and a condenser (4) placed between the liquid separator (3) and the expansion valve (8) that transforms in liquid form and thanks to the pressure produced by the system the vapours filtered by the liquid separator (3), the latter being destined to only let pass the vapours of the coolant.
A depollution procedure of the combustion gases characterised in that it consists in burning said gases in a catalytic chamber (23), cooling said gases to a low temperature to produce the condensation of the substances emitted during the combustion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.