Engine exhaust gas passage flow orifice and method
AssigneeInternational Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC
InventorTimothy M. Lyons
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a gas passage (700) having a gas inlet (702), an engine gas outlet (704), and at least one exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) gas outlet (706), wherein the at least one EGR gas outlet (706) is disposed between the gas inlet (702) and the engine gas outlet (704). The gas passage (700) is arranged to receive exhaust gas through the inlet (702) and expel gas through both the gas outlets (704 and 706). A flow orifice (710) is operatively associated with the gas passage (700) and is disposed between the engine gas outlet (704) and the at least one EGR gas outlet (706).
Claims13
A method for augmenting flow out of a gas passage, comprising the steps of:
- collecting exhaust gas in a volume of an internal combustion engine;
- flowing the exhaust gas out of the volume to form an exhaust gas flow into a junction;
- constricting a first portion of the exhaust gas flow exiting the junction with a fixed flow area orifice;
- routing the first portion of the exhaust gas flow to a turbine;
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- routing an unconstricted second portion of the exhaust flow exiting the junction to an EGR cooler,
- wherein a high pressure region of exhaust gas is created adjacent to the orifice.
An engine exhaust system comprising:
- an exhaust gas passage having an inlet through which exhaust gas from engine combustion chambers enters the passage, a first outlet through which exhaust gas is conveyed out of the passage toward a turbine of a turbocharger and a second outlet through which exhaust gas is conveyed out of the passage back toward the combustion chambers for recirculation, wherein a segment of the passage extends between the two outlets and comprises a fixed flow area orifice that is small enough to restrict flow to the first outlet and elevate the pressure in the passage at the second outlet from what that pressure would otherwise be in the absence of the orifice.
In a turbocharged internal combustion engine having an intake system leading to engine cylinders, and an exhaust system for conveying exhaust gas from the cylinders, including an exhaust manifold and a turbine in fluid communication with the exhaust manifold, and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) passage that shunts some of the exhaust gas coming from the cylinders away from the turbine and back to the intake system when an EGR valve in the EGR passage allows EGR flow, the improvement comprising:
- a main passage comprising a fixed flow area orifice disposed therein downstream of where the EGR passage begins to shunt exhaust gas away from the turbine, the fixed flow area of the orifice being small enough to restrict flow to the turbine and elevate the pressure at which exhaust gas is shunted into the EGR passage from what that pressure would otherwise be in the absence of the orifice.
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