The present specification for the instant application should be granted the priority date of Mar. 15, 2006, the filing date of the corresponding German patent application 102006011 797.2.
The present invention relates to a vehicle or a stationary power plant.
In a vehicle or a stationary power plant, an array of components and units, such as crankcase, cylinder heads, radiators, and containers, which have a medium that is accommodated in a closed loop flowing through them is disposed on the internal combustion engine which forms a drive or motive power source, and in its surroundings. In the case of a cooling loop, providing electrical auxiliary units, via which the coolant is heatable, is known for improving the cold start behavior of the internal combustion engine and for more rapid availability of heating warmth. These electrical auxiliary heaters are typically relatively expensive and load the energy-providing battery because of their high energy demand, Such electrical auxiliary heaters are also provided, for example, for those cases when the coolant loop of the internal combustion engine is also used for thawing a urea-water solution (used as an ammonia provider for NO2 reduction in SCR catalytic converters) which is stored in a container and freezes at temperatures below approximately −12° C. Because the battery is particularly strongly loaded in the event of low negative temperatures which exist over a long period of time or, in specific areas of the world, always, electrical auxiliary heaters for coolant water heating are to be put into operation only as long as absolutely necessary if possible. For the remainder of the internal combustion engine or vehicle operating time, they are not needed.
It is therefore the object of the present invention to provide means for a vehicle or a stationary power plant of the aforementioned general type according to the species which allow electrical auxiliary heaters for heating a medium accommodated in a closed loop to be dispensed with.
This object is achieved according to the present invention by a vehicle or stationary power plant having an internal combustion engine as a drive or motive power source. and having components that may be supplied with heat by a medium that is accommodated in a closed medium loop or circuit, wherein an exhaust gas turbocharger is provided for turbocharging the internal combustion engine wherein the turbine of the exhaust gas turbocharger is used and/or implemented as a heat source and, for this purpose, a heat exchanger is externally situated on the turbine housing. which is incorporated or switchable in the medium loop and in whose interior the medium, which is conducted through directly or channeled, is heatable using at least the thermal radiant energy of the hot turbine housing.
The present invention is directed to the fact that the turbine of the exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine is the assembly which becomes warm and/or hot and radiates heat most rapidly after its cold start. Until now. the waste heat of the turbine has been viewed as rather troublesome in particular when it is nearly red-hot in full-load operation. Vehicle parts situated in the surroundings of the hot turbine are partitioned from the effect of heat which is too strong by insulating walls or heat shields, in addition, the turbine is intensively cooled. In contrast, the present invention makes use of the rapid heating of the turbine, by using it entirely intentionally as a heat source for a medium that is to be heated. This is performed via a heat exchanger which is situated externally on the turbine housing. The medium to be heated may be conducted through its interior either directly or channeled, When conducted through directly, the medium absorbs heat from the hot turbine housing, more or less depending on the dwell time in the heat exchanger interior or on the flow velocity, if the medium to be heated is conducted channeled through the interior of the heat exchanger. the possibility exists of additionally feeding or conducting exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine into the heat exchanger interior. so that the heat content of the exhaust gas is additionally usable for heating the medium, in addition to the radiant energy of the turbine housing.
The heat exchanger may be implemented and/or situated on the turbine housing in various ways. The drawing and associated description of the figures provide information about some of these embodiments.
The way according to the present invention of warming or heating the medium permits greatly varying usages of this medium heated in this way because of the high possible energy introduction—even connected with a change of the physical state from liquid to vaporous. Such an application is, for example, the rapid warming up of the liquid coolant (water or coolant water mixed with antifreeze) of an internal combustion engine after its cold start. In other applications, the heated medium is conducted via a heat consumer incorporated or switched into the medium loop, such as a container, so that the liquid stored or located therein may be warmed or heated or may be prevented from freezing or may be thawed rapidly after a cold start of the internal combustion engine. This heat consumer may, for example, be a storage container for a urea-water solution or a windshield, headlight, and/or outside mirror cleaning liquid, or a radiator which conducts coolant water or a coolant water equalizing container. However. electrical storage batteries for vehicle heaters are also beatable using the medium heated according to the present invention. The medium heated according to the present invention may. for example. also be supplied in a touring bus or mobile home to the hot water container of the onboard kitchen or the washing water storage container of the onboard toilet for the purpose of heating or keeping warm or as a freezing protection. Furthermore, the medium. if it is a low-boiling liquid, may be converted from the liquid into its vaporous state as it flows through the turbine-side heat exchanger and may be supplied to a steam turbine in this vaporous state, by which it may be converted into mechanical drive energy to deliver power,
In the following, the present invention is explained in greater detail on the basis of multiple exemplary embodiments and applications illustrated in the drawings, in which:
Referring now to the drawings in detail the reference numeral (e.g.
According to the present invention, the turbine 4 of the exhaust gas turbocharger 2 is used and/or implemented as a heat source for the medium. For this purpose. a heat exchanger 12 is externally situated on the turbine housing 10 is incorporated or switchable in the medium loop 3, and in whose interior 13 (
In particular if the medium to be heated is conducted channeled or piped through the interior 13 of the heat exchanger 12, it suggests itself that exhaust gas additionally be fed into or conducted through the heat exchanger interior 13 and the heat content of the exhaust gas be additionally used for heating the medium.
The heat exchanger 12 may be implemented externally on the turbine housing 10 in various ways.
For example, the heat exchanger 12 may be implemented as an integral component of the exhaust gas turbine 4 and, for this purpose, the housing 14 of the heat exchanger 12 may be formed by the turbine housing external wall 15 and a further housing external wall 16, which is cast thereon or attached thereto (see
Alternatively, the heat exchanger 12 may also be formed by a heat exchanger pipe 18 which—as shown in FIG. 5—is attached bent or meandering on the turbine housing 10 of the exhaust gas turbine 4 on the provided external area—tailored thereto in a formatting way and closely fitted for optimum heat transmission—e.g. by multiple clamps or holders 19.
In the exemplary embodiments of
In the case of the exemplary embodiments in
In the case of the example in
The heat exchanger pipe 24 or the heat exchanger pipe bundle mentioned may be a component of a heat exchanger cartridge 26 which—as shown in
The heat exchanger pipe 24 or the heat exchanger pipe bundle absorbs the heat energy radiated from the external wall 15 of the turbine 10 inside the dosed heat exchanger housing 14. As already noted above, the heating power may be increased, if the medium is conducted through channeled or piped, by feeding exhaust gas into the interior 13 of the heat exchanger 12 This exhaust gas may be diverted from the exhaust system 6 before or in the intake 9 of the exhaust gas turbine 4 and may be fed channeled, e.g. via a hole 27 in the interior of the turbine housing. as shown in
Independently of its different embodiments, the heat exchanger 12 having its supply line 22 and discharge line 23 may be switched into the medium loop 3 and/or 3′ if needed. The need for this connection is detected by one or more temperature sensors at a location where the heated medium is to be active, for example. The heat exchanger 12 is switched into and out of the medium loop 3 by switchable changeover valves 35, 36, for example. which receive their switching commands from an electronic regulating and control unit (not shown), and which are connected to one another via a line section 37 which bypasses the heat exchanger 12 as a bypass if the latter is not incorporated in the medium loop 3, 3′.
In the following, various medium loops 3, 3′ and their implementation and use are discussed in greater detail with reference to
In
However, the heat exchanger 12 may also be switched and/or incorporated in an autonomous medium loop 3′ independent of the internal combustion engine 1 and its coolant loop—instead of the coolant loop of the internal combustion engine—as described above on the basis of
Examples of such autonomous medium loops 3′ are illustrated in
Each of these medium loops 3 leads through or over a heat consumer 47. The medium enclosed in the medium loop 3′ is circulated using a pump 48. Two changeover valves 49, 50, which are connected to one another by a line section 51 of the medium loop 3′. allow the heat exchanger 12 according to the present invention to be switched into the medium loop 3′ or to be bypassed via the line section 51 which then acts as a bypass. depending on the switch position, in the case of
As shown in
In the case of the example shown in
An exemplary application is described on the basis of
In all applications, it is to be ensured that when the heat exchanger 12 is taken back out of the medium loop after a phase of heating the medium by changing over the changeover valves 35, 36, 38: 49, 50 and is bypassed via the bypass line 37, 51, the heated medium still located in the disconnected switching section between the changeover valves 35, 36 (
In addition. in all applications, a preferably electronic, computer-supported regulating and control unit is provided, which, by a program and predefined input setpoint values, controls the operation and the speeds of the pumps 34, 48, 58 and the switching/changeover of the changeover valves 35, 36, 38, 49, 50 for activating and de-activating the heat exchanger 12 as a heat source, on the basis of actual values supplied thereto, such as temperature values at the heat consumer and flow and pressure values in the medium loops 3, 3′, 57.
In addition, in general the heat exchanger 12 may function to a certain extent as a cooling element on the exhaust gas turbine 4 of the exhaust gas turbocharger, because it at least partially externally shields the turbine housing and thus reduces the outwardly acting heat emission in particular in connection with the medium flowing through. External thermal insulators or shields may thus either be entirely dispensed with or only have to be implemented in reduced and/or simplified form
The specification incorporates by reference the disclosure of German priority document 102006011 797.2 filed Mar. 15, 2006.
The present invention is, of course, in no way restricted to the specific disclosure of the specification and drawings, but also encompasses any modifications within the scope of the appended claims.
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This application is a continuation application of Ser. No. 11/686,149 filed Mar. 14, 2007 now abandoned.
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