EP0472008B1 - Durch Freibrennen regenerierbarer Partikelfilter für die Abgase von Brennkraftmaschinen - Google Patents

Durch Freibrennen regenerierbarer Partikelfilter für die Abgase von Brennkraftmaschinen Download PDF

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EP0472008B1
EP0472008B1 EP91112672A EP91112672A EP0472008B1 EP 0472008 B1 EP0472008 B1 EP 0472008B1 EP 91112672 A EP91112672 A EP 91112672A EP 91112672 A EP91112672 A EP 91112672A EP 0472008 B1 EP0472008 B1 EP 0472008B1
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Wolfgang Dipl.-Ing. Pfister
Herbert Dipl.-Ing. Langen
Horst Dipl.-Ing. Jung
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01N—GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
    • F01N3/00—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust
    • F01N3/02—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01N—GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
    • F01N3/00—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust
    • F01N3/02—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust
    • F01N3/021—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust by means of filters
    • F01N3/0212—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust by means of filters with one or more perforated tubes surrounded by filtering material, e.g. filter candles
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01N—GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
    • F01N3/00—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust
    • F01N3/02—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust
    • F01N3/021—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust by means of filters
    • F01N3/022—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust by means of filters characterised by specially adapted filtering structure, e.g. honeycomb, mesh or fibrous
    • F01N3/0226—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust by means of filters characterised by specially adapted filtering structure, e.g. honeycomb, mesh or fibrous the structure being fibrous
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01N—GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
    • F01N3/00—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust
    • F01N3/02—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust
    • F01N3/021—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust by means of filters
    • F01N3/023—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust by means of filters using means for regenerating the filters, e.g. by burning trapped particles
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01N—GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
    • F01N3/00—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust
    • F01N3/02—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust
    • F01N3/021—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust by means of filters
    • F01N3/023—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust by means of filters using means for regenerating the filters, e.g. by burning trapped particles
    • F01N3/025—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for cooling, or for removing solid constituents of, exhaust by means of filters using means for regenerating the filters, e.g. by burning trapped particles using fuel burner or by adding fuel to exhaust
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01N—GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
    • F01N2330/00—Structure of catalyst support or particle filter
    • F01N2330/10—Fibrous material, e.g. mineral or metallic wool

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  • the invention relates to a particle filter for cleaning the exhaust gas of internal combustion engines with filter cartridges, which are arranged in a housing provided with an inlet chamber and an outlet funnel between holding plates and are formed from a support tube provided with exhaust gas passage openings and covered with filter material, and which also provide heat from a heat source is supplied for regeneration by free burning.
  • Particle filters of this type are required for cleaning exhaust gases from internal combustion engines, in particular in vehicles which are operated with diesel fuel, in order to filter out the soot particles which are harmful to health and represent a high and dangerous environmental impact.
  • the exhaust gas is filtered as it flows through a ceramic block (monolith), which has a large number of through-channels, of which one channel is closed like a chessboard and one channel is closed on the outlet side, so that the exhaust gas flows into one channel, then through the surrounding monolith section acting as a filter flows into the adjacent channel and leaves it, freed of soot particles.
  • a soot filter describes e.g. DE-OS 32 17 357.
  • filter cartridges for particle filtering.
  • These filter cartridges are preferably designed as a wound filter.
  • a support tube provided with exhaust gas passage openings wrapped in multiple layers with filter material threads, so that an element comparable to a textile yarn spool is created.
  • Such an arrangement shows, for example, DE-OS 38 15 148 with a special representation of the storage of the filter candles in holding plates.
  • the filter candles can also be formed by a hose cover made of filter material via a support tube according to DE-OS 38 23 205.
  • the filter candles are flowed through from the outside in, the exhaust gas to be cleaned enters the support pipes through the filter material, which are closed on the inlet side, the soot particles are retained when the wound filter material flows through, and the cleaned exhaust gas flows through the support pipes into the outlet funnel and is released by dissipated there.
  • the filter cartridges are arranged on concentric circles in the filter housing and are of a uniform design. Instead of the inlet-side holding plate provided with exhaust gas passage openings, a holding grille can also be arranged.
  • sooting occurs when it flows through the particle filter, ie the filter material becomes increasingly clogged with soot particles and the soot has to be removed after a relatively short period of operation.
  • Mechanical removal is practically out of the question, since the entire filter would have to be removed and the soot would have to be disposed of. It is therefore necessary to burn off the enriched soot.
  • oxidizing agents are added to the exhaust gas from a storage container as additives, so that the collected soot comes into contact with these reducing the soot ignition temperature and increasing the combustion rate and can be burned off at relatively low exhaust gas temperatures.
  • the invention has for its object to show a particle filter that enables regeneration while driving and in which a high degree of free burning is achieved over the entire length of the filter, so that the re-infusion time is approximately constant and corresponds to the first infusion time.
  • the solution to this problem is a generic particle filter in which filter candles of different active lengths are arranged equidistantly distributed over the cross section of the housing.
  • Active length is understood to mean the section of the filter candle covered with filter material.
  • a different active length can be formed in that the filter material occupancy is different over the length of the filter candle, for example, is stronger at the front when viewed in the direction of flow than in the following area.
  • This different occupancy can be different for the individual filter cartridges, so a different occupancy can be selected in the edge area of the filter than in the central (middle) area.
  • the strength of the occupancy can be selected according to the flow profile of the exhaust gas to be cleaned.
  • a particularly expedient continuation is characterized in that the length of the support tubes is covered with filter material to different degrees.
  • the filter candles designed as a wound filter can be produced in a simple and proven method in the same way and the filter candles can be inserted into flat holding plates in the filter housing due to the identical length of the support tubes.
  • the filter candles are arranged according to the flow profile of the exhaust gas flowing through, i.e. that the filter cartridges with the shorter active length are arranged radially on the outside in the housing.
  • the support tubes with a short filter material occupancy are arranged in the outer, radially more distant area of the housing.
  • FIG. 1 In the particulate filter example shown in FIG. 1, two variants are shown.
  • the exhaust gas to be cleaned is fed to the filter material above the filter space, in the illustration in the lower half the exhaust gas is supplied via the support tubes of the filter candles.
  • the version shown in the upper half represents a preferred arrangement.
  • the housing 1 shows a housing 1 with thermal insulation 4, which is required in order to maintain the free-burning temperature with the lowest possible energy supply and to protect the components surrounding the filter.
  • the housing 1 is subdivided into three chambers by an upstream holding base 3a which is fixedly arranged in the housing 1 and a downstream holding base 3b which is preferably arranged with a sliding seat.
  • the upstream inlet chamber 4, which is designed as a mixing chamber, is followed downstream by the filter chamber 5 between the holding plates 3a, 3b and the downstream outlet chamber 6, which is provided with an outlet funnel 7 and to which an exhaust gas outlet connection 8 is connected.
  • the radial or tangential supply of the exhaust gas to be cleaned takes place via at least one exhaust gas inlet connection 9 in the inlet chamber 4.
  • the required external heat supply also takes place via the connection 10, which in this exemplary embodiment also represents a suitable burner as it is is known for example from DE-OS 34 10 716.9.
  • a DE-OS 35 45 437.7 shows an example of an external heat supply at 10.
  • the filter candles 11 are arranged between the holding bases 3a, 3b. These consist of a support tube 12 which is provided with filter material 13 in the form of, for example, a ceramic ring winding.
  • the support tubes 12 have a perforation 14 for the passage of the exhaust gas, at least in the area covered by filter material 13.
  • the support tubes 12 are fixedly mounted in the holding plate 3a.
  • the other end of the support tubes 12 is also fixedly mounted in the holding plate 3b if the holding plate 3b is arranged with a sliding seat in the housing 1 or is mounted in the holding plate 3b with a sliding seat if the holding plate 3b is also arranged firmly in the housing 1.
  • This one-sided movable storage is required to accommodate the thermal change in length of the support tubes 12 during the free burning process.
  • the exhaust gas to be cleaned is supplied via the exhaust gas inlet connection 9 into the inlet chamber 4, into which additional heating is also carried out via the external heat supply at 10.
  • the preferred "flow from outside to inside" of the filter candles 11 is shown.
  • the exhaust gas to be cleaned loaded with soot particles, enters the filter chamber 5 from the inlet chamber 4 via inlet openings 15 arranged in the holding plate 3a. This is closed downstream by the holding plate 3b, so that the exhaust gas through filter material 13 enters through the perforation 14 in the support tube 12 and leaves this downstream open support tube 12 cleaned in the outlet chamber 6 and is discharged via the exhaust outlet port 8.
  • the holding base 3a on the downstream side is designed to be closed, while the holding base 3b on the downstream side has outflow openings 16 and the support tubes 12 which are open on the outlet side are closed in the other embodiment, so that the exhaust gas flowing into the support tubes 12 which are open on the inlet side is closed flows out through the filter material 13 into the filter chamber 5 and is discharged via the outflow openings 16.
  • the support tubes 12, which are open on the inlet side can have an integrally formed inlet tulip 17 in order to improve the inflow of the exhaust gas.
  • FIG. 3 A variant of a filter candle 11 is shown in FIG. 3.
  • the different active length of the filter candle 11 is achieved in that on the support tube 12, in the example with an integrally formed inlet tulip 17, an occupancy of filter material 13 of different lengths over the length of the support tube 12 is made.
  • the support tube 12 is provided with the largest filter material occupancy in the downstream first section, in the second section there is a harmonious transition to a low filter material occupancy in the last section.
  • Such filter cartridges 11 are preferably used for particle filters for vehicles with load conditions with a low exhaust gas mass flow or with a strongly changing mass flow.

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EP91112672A 1990-08-21 1991-07-27 Durch Freibrennen regenerierbarer Partikelfilter für die Abgase von Brennkraftmaschinen Expired - Lifetime EP0472008B1 (de)

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