This application claims the benefit of Chinese Patent Application No. 201821190661.5 filed Jul. 25, 2018, which is incorporated herein by reference for all purposes.
The present disclosure relates to a mixer and an exhaust aftertreatment system comprising the mixer.
In recent years, regulations on emissions and fuel consumption of power systems have become stricter, and engines need to perform full combustion due to the strict fuel consumption regulations. The cost of full combustion is an increase in the content of nitrogen oxides in an exhaust gas, which is also limited by strict emission regulations. In the European “Euro VI” diesel engine emission standards, particulate emissions from vehicles with diesel engines should be less than 10 mg/kwh, and nitrogen oxide emissions should be less than 460 mg/kwh. Therefore, in the increasingly strict emission and fuel consumption standards as well as the requirements of miniaturization and lightweight of the engines, exhaust aftertreatment systems should also be improved accordingly, e.g. by adding an engine exhaust gas recirculation system, but this reduces the temperature of the engine, so that some fuel is not fully combusted, and uncombusted hydrocarbons and particulate matter emissions are increased. Therefore, in the increasingly strict emission and fuel consumption standards as well as the requirements of miniaturization and lightweight of the engines, the exhaust treatment systems must also be improved accordingly to comply with government regulations, for example, a mixer is provided to treat nitrogen oxides to reduce the nitrogen oxide emissions.
In general, the mixer is disposed upstream of a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst, an injector of the mixer injects, for example, a liquid containing urea, and the mixer is located upstream of the SCR catalyst to mix the exhaust gas discharged from the engine with a urea conversion product; and a reduction reaction is carried out on the SCR catalyst to convert the nitrogen oxides into pollution-free nitrogen and water vapor to be discharged, so as to reduce the content of nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas and meet emission regulation standards.
In the mixer, the injector typically injects urea into an exhaust gas stream. The mixer can reduce the formation of urea deposits and improve the efficiency of treatment and conversion of nitrogen oxides. However, in the prior art mixer, the mainstream design solution is to provide a deflector with a spiral surface to increase the mixing stroke of the exhaust gas in the mixer to improve the mixing uniformity of the exhaust gas and the liquid. However, the structure of such a deflector is complicated, which puts forward higher requirements on the process; and since the stroke of the exhaust gas and the urea is relatively long, the temperature of a mixed system of the two is lowered, so that the urea deposit rate is increased.
Therefore, there is a need in the art for a mixer having a simple structure, good mixing uniformity, and a low urea deposit rate.
It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a mixer.
It is an object of the present disclosure to provide an exhaust aftertreatment system.
A mixer for an exhaust aftertreatment system, according to an aspect of the present disclosure, comprises a shell, an injection port, a first baffle, a second baffle, a deflector, and an impactor, wherein the first baffle is provided with a gas inlet, the second baffle is provided with a gas outlet, the first baffle and the second baffle are disposed opposite each other, and the first baffle, the second baffle and the shell provide a flow space for an exhaust gas to flow in the mixer; and in the flow space, the first baffle, the shell, the deflector and the impactor provide a mixing space, the deflector comprises a first deflecting surface opposite the first baffle, the deflector is disposed adjacent to the impactor, and the impactor is disposed opposite the injection port for impacting a liquid injected from the injection port into the mixing space.
In an embodiment of the mixer, the impactor has a circular arc shape.
In an embodiment of the mixer, the deflector further comprises a second deflecting surface and a third deflecting surface respectively extending from two lateral ends of the first deflecting surface toward the first baffle.
In an embodiment of the mixer, the first deflecting surface is a circular arc surface, and the second deflecting surface and the third deflecting surface are planes parallel to each other.
In an embodiment of the mixer, the gas inlet and the injection port are disposed on the same side with respect to an axis of the flow space.
In an embodiment of the mixer, a radial gap is provided between the impactor and an inner wall of the shell, the radial gap and the first baffle jointly provide a heating space, and the first baffle is provided with a gas inlet opening for the exhaust gas to flow into the heating space.
In an embodiment of the mixer, the first baffle and/or the second baffle have a plurality of plug welds, and the impactor and/or the deflector are connected to the first baffle and/or the second baffle via the plug welds.
In an embodiment of the mixer, the liquid injected into the mixing space is a urea solution.
An exhaust aftertreatment system, according to another aspect of the present disclosure, comprises the mixer of any of the above embodiments.
The progressive effects of the present disclosure include at least:
The above-mentioned and other features, properties and advantages of the present disclosure will become more apparent from the following description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and the embodiments, in which:
Various implementations or embodiments carrying out the subject matter and technical solutions described are disclosed as follows. Specific instances of various elements and arrangements are described below for the purpose of simplifying the disclosure, and of course, these are merely examples and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. For example, a first feature recorded later in the specification being formed above or over a second feature can include an implementation of forming a direct contact of the first and second features, and can also include an implementation of forming an additional feature between the first feature and the second feature such that the first and second features may not be in direct contact. Additionally, reference numerals and/or letters may be repeated in different examples in these disclosures. This repetition is for the sake of brevity and clarity, and does not itself represent the relationship between the various implementations and/or structures to be discussed. Further, when a first element is described in connection with or in combination with a second element, the description includes an implementation in which the first and second elements are directly connected or combined to each other, and also includes the use of one or more other intervening elements such that the first and second elements are indirectly connected or combined to each other.
In addition, it should be understood that the orientation or positional relationship indicated by the orientation words such as “front, rear, up, down, left, right”, “transverse, vertical, perpendicular, horizontal” and “top, bottom”, etc. are usually based on orientation or positional relationship shown in the figures, and are merely for the convenience of the description of the present disclosure and simplifying the description, and unless stated to the contrary, the orientation words are not to indicate or imply that the device or element referred must have a specific orientation or be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus are not to be explained as limiting the scope of the present disclosure; and the orientation words “inner, outer” refer to the inside and outside of the contour of each component, words “first”, “second” and the like are used to limit the components and parts only for the purpose of facilitating the distinction between the corresponding components and parts, and unless otherwise stated, the above words have no special meaning and therefore cannot be interpreted as limiting the scope of protection of the present disclosure.
Also, the present application uses specific words to describe embodiments of the present application. The term “one embodiment”, “an embodiment” and/or “some embodiments” or the like means certain feature, structure, or characteristic associated with at least one embodiment of the present application. Therefore, it should be emphasized and noted that “an embodiment” or “one embodiment” or “some embodiments” referred in two or more different positions in this specification does not necessarily refer to the same embodiment. Furthermore, some of the features, structures, or characteristics of one or more embodiments of the present application can be combined as appropriate.
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The first baffle 2 is provided with a gas inlet 21 for the exhaust gas 101 to enter the mixer, and the first baffle 2 shown in
In the flow space, the first baffle 2, the shell 1, the deflector 5, and the impactor 6 provide a mixing space 20 in which a liquid 102 is injected by the injector 10, and the liquid 102 is a liquid which includes a reducing agent component and can undergo a reduction reaction with nitrogen oxides contained in the exhaust gas 101, such as a commonly used urea solution, but not limited thereto. The deflector 5 comprises a first deflecting surface 51 opposite the first baffle 2, the deflector 5 is disposed adjacent to the impactor 6, and the impactor 6 is disposed opposite the injection port 71. That is, the impactor 6 is located in an injection path of the injector 10, and the liquid 102 injected from the injector 10 enters the mixing space, impacts with the impactor 6, and is atomized into small droplets.
The reason why the mixer structure thus designed can improve exhaust gas mixing uniformity, improve exhaust gas treatment efficiency, and reduce liquid solute (for example, urea) deposit is that, with reference to
Preferably, the impactor 6 may be of a circular arc shape, but not limited herein, and the advantageous effect thereof is that the impactor 6 is easy to process, and can better gather the heat of the exhaust gas 101.
The exhaust gas 101 and the liquid 102 need not use the structurally complicated spiral deflector which is used in the prior art to improve the mixing effect of the two, or the technical solution of increasing the length of the mixer, which simplifies the structure of the deflector and reduces the processing cost of the mixer. At the same time, the length of the mixer is further shortened, so that it can be flexibly arranged in the entire exhaust aftertreatment system, and the valuable arrangement space inside the exhaust aftertreatment system is saved, which is advantageous for miniaturization of the exhaust aftertreatment system. In addition, the exhaust gas with a large amount of heat is collected at the impactor 6 by the method of impact and liquid injection, so that the temperature thereof can meet the requirement of urea decomposition, effectively reducing the deposit of a urea liquid, and ensuring that the mixer can operate stably and reliably for a long time.
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In summary, the advantageous effects using the mixer and the exhaust aftertreatment system of the above embodiment include at least:
The present disclosure has been disclosed above as the above embodiments which, however, are not intended to limit the present disclosure, and any person skilled in the art could make possible changes and alterations without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. For example, other than the application to the vehicle, the exhaust aftertreatment system can be applied to diesel engines of conveyances such as ships, submarines, and the like, as well as exhaust aftertreatment of other power machines that need to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions; as a further example, the mixer can be applied to various application scenarios, for example, end-in and end-out, side-in and side-out, side-in and end-out, and end-in and side-out, and is also suitable for production in different sizes, such as 5-13 inches; and as a yet further example, the specific position of the injector 10, the number of impactors 6, etc. Hence, any alteration, equivalent change and modification which are made to the above-mentioned embodiments in accordance with the technical substance of the present disclosure and without departing from the contents of the technical solutions of the present disclosure would fall within the scope of protection defined by the claims of the present disclosure.
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201821190661.5 | Jul 2018 | CN | national |