EP1192344A1 - Procede et dispositif de purge en oxyde de soufre d'un pot catalytique de traitement des gaz d'echappement d'un moteur a combustion interne - Google Patents
Procede et dispositif de purge en oxyde de soufre d'un pot catalytique de traitement des gaz d'echappement d'un moteur a combustion interneInfo
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- EP1192344A1 EP1192344A1 EP00949657A EP00949657A EP1192344A1 EP 1192344 A1 EP1192344 A1 EP 1192344A1 EP 00949657 A EP00949657 A EP 00949657A EP 00949657 A EP00949657 A EP 00949657A EP 1192344 A1 EP1192344 A1 EP 1192344A1
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- cylinders
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- pot
- catalytic converter
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Classifications
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02D—CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES
- F02D41/00—Electrical control of supply of combustible mixture or its constituents
- F02D41/008—Controlling each cylinder individually
- F02D41/0082—Controlling each cylinder individually per groups or banks
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02D—CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES
- F02D41/00—Electrical control of supply of combustible mixture or its constituents
- F02D41/02—Circuit arrangements for generating control signals
- F02D41/021—Introducing corrections for particular conditions exterior to the engine
- F02D41/0235—Introducing corrections for particular conditions exterior to the engine in relation with the state of the exhaust gas treating apparatus
- F02D41/027—Introducing corrections for particular conditions exterior to the engine in relation with the state of the exhaust gas treating apparatus to purge or regenerate the exhaust gas treating apparatus
- F02D41/0285—Introducing corrections for particular conditions exterior to the engine in relation with the state of the exhaust gas treating apparatus to purge or regenerate the exhaust gas treating apparatus the exhaust gas treating apparatus being a SOx trap or adsorbent
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a process for purging sulfur oxides from a catalytic converter trapping nitrogen oxides, for the treatment of exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine, by adjusting the richness of the mixture. air / fuel supplying the engine to a predetermined value and heating the pot to a temperature greater than or equal to a predetermined temperature.
- a quantity representative of the quantity of sulfur oxides stored in the pot is evaluated, using a model, and a purge of the pot is triggered when this quantity crosses a predetermined threshold, depending on the temperature. of the pot.
- the quantity taken into account may consist of the mass of sulfur oxides stored in the pot, the storage efficiency of sulfur oxides or the filling rate of the pot with sulfur oxides. Reference is made to the aforementioned request for more details concerning the calculation of these quantities using a model. There are also described in this patent application means which allow, during a purge of the pot triggered at a temperature below said predetermined temperature, to heat this pot to this temperature.
- the cylinders of the engine producing the exhaust gases treated in this pot are divided into two halves, the cylinders of one of these halves being supplied with a rich air / fuel mixture while the cylinders of the other half are supplied with a lean air / fuel mixture, the exhaust gases produced by these two halves being guided separately to the pot, where they mix.
- the present invention specifically aims to provide a method of purging sulfur oxides from a catalytic converter trapping nitrogen oxides, involving heating of the pot by an exothermic oxidation-reduction reaction to bring the pot to the suitable temperature, this method being corrected for the drawbacks explained above of the methods known from the prior art.
- the present invention also aims to provide a device for the implementation of this method.
- the redox reaction takes place in the catalytic converter trapping nitrogen oxides and in a common conduit for the exhaust gases leaving the first and second groups of cylinders .
- At least one of the groups of cylinders comprises first and second sub-groups of cylinders whose exhaust gases are rich in oxidizing chemical species and in reducing chemical species, respectively, so as to allow an exothermic oxidation-reduction reaction in a priming catalytic converter collecting the exhaust gases from the cylinders of said first and second sub-groups, upstream of the common conduit, said exothermic reaction contributing to the heating of said catalytic converter to trap nitrogen oxides placed downstream of said conduit.
- FIG. 1 is a partial diagram of an internal combustion engine and of means for controlling the operation of this engine
- FIG. 2 is a diagram of a device for implementing the method according to the present invention.
- FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawing an internal combustion engine, by one of its cylinders 1 equipped with a piston 2, inlet 3 and exhaust 4 valves and actuators such as a fuel injector 5, a spark plug 6 and a valve 7 for controlling the air flow entering the cylinder, via an intake manifold 8.
- a computer 9 conventionally manages the operation of the engine by processing information from various sensors, such as the engine speed N, the torque C requested by the driver of a vehicle powered by said engine, etc., etc.
- the valve 7 and the pipe 8 are found in the device shown schematically in Figure 2 where the engine M shown comprises a plurality l ⁇ , l2, ... l n of cylinders, n can be even or odd.
- the exhaust gases produced by the combustion of an air / fuel mixture in the cylinders li are collected by two exhaust pipes 9 ⁇ , 9 2 each associated with a group A or B of engine cylinders.
- the cylinders li to I3 (group A) deliver exhaust gases into the manifold 9 ⁇ while the cylinders I 4 to I 5 (group B) flow through the tubing 9 2 .
- the gases thus collected are mixed upstream of a conduit 10 connected to the inlet of a three-way catalytic converter 11 for treating exhaust gases.
- the gases collected by the pipes 9 ⁇ and 9 2 can first pass through catalytic converters 12 ⁇ , 12 2 respectively, called “priming” treating, as is well known, the exhaust gases when the main catalytic converter It has not reached a temperature sufficient to operate efficiently, as is the case during a cold start of the engine, for example.
- the pot 11 comprises means for storing nitrogen oxides NOx when the engine is supplied with an air / fuel mixture "poor” in fuel, the stored nitrogen oxides being periodically desorbed to avoid saturation of its storage capacity . The desorbed nitrogen oxides are then reduced in the pot 11 to a harmless chemical species (nitrogen).
- the sulfur oxides contained in the exhaust gases are also stored in the pot 11, under the same conditions as the nitrogen oxides. They then reduce the storage capacity of the pot 11 in nitrogen oxides and must therefore also be periodically desorbed and treated.
- the purging of the sulfur oxide pot must, however, be carried out, to be effective, at a predetermined richness of purge R 30X of the mixture. air / fuel and at a temperature of the pot higher than that which allows the purging of the pot in nitrogen oxides.
- the computer 9 is duly programmed to control these purging operations with nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides.
- the computer 9 is duly programmed to control these purging operations with nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides.
- the pot When the computer 9 triggers a purge of sulfur oxides from the pot, the pot should be brought to a high temperature (above 650 ° C). If this is not the case, it is necessary to quickly bring the pot to this temperature to make purging possible, by a temporary increase in the R sox value of the average richness of the air / fuel mixture supplying the engine, controlled by the computer by an appropriate adjustment of the opening time of the fuel jets such as 5 and of the valve 7 for adjusting the air flow admitted into the engine.
- a high temperature above 650 ° C
- the pot 11 is reheated by selectively causing an exothermic oxidation-reduction reaction between an excess of oxidizing chemical species
- the fuel richness of the air / fuel mixture of all the cylinders of group A could be adjusted to a value corresponding to a lean mixture and the corresponding richness for all the cylinders of group B at a value corresponding to a rich mixture.
- This method of supplying the cylinders of group B is not favorable for maximum production of carbon monoxide, whereas this is the most effective reducing species for purging the pot of sulfur oxides and for reducing the overconsumption of fuel required by heating the catalytic converter 11.
- this maximum production of carbon monoxide is obtained by supplying one of the cylinders of group B, for example the cylinder I 4 , with an air / fuel mixture of high or very high fuel richness (between 1.3 and 1.5 for example).
- an air / fuel mixture of high or very high fuel richness between 1.3 and 1.5 for example.
- R purge sox value
- the richness of the air / fuel mixtures supplying the engine cylinders and the instants of ignition of these mixtures are controlled by the computer 9 so that the powers produced by the combustions in the different cylinders are identical, that the pot 11 reaches the desired temperature for the purging of sulfur oxides and that the average richness is equal to R SO ⁇ / as we saw above.
- the computer draws the masses of fuel to be injected and the required ignition advances from tables stored in memory, and this cylinder by cylinder.
- the input parameters of these tables can be engine speed N and / or torque C requested by the driver.
- the latter can be managed by the computer using valve 7.
- the computer 9 selectively controls the supply of certain cylinders of group A with a rich mixture, the average mixture passing through all of the cylinders of this group remaining poor.
- the excess of reducing chemical species leaving the burning cylinder a rich mixture then mixes, in the priming pot 12 ⁇ , with an excess of oxidizing chemical species coming from the other cylinders, which causes in this pot and, possibly, in line 10, an exothermic redox reaction which preheats the exhaust gases before entering the pot 11.
- the computer 9 can control the supply of certain cylinders of group B with a lean mixture, the average mixture remaining rich, so as to cause an exothermic oxidation-reduction reaction in the priming pot 12 2 .
- the invention makes it possible to achieve the announced aim, namely to ensure heating of the catalytic converter to trap nitrogen oxides suitable for purging this pot of sulfur oxides, the latter being facilitated by the described production process of carbon monoxide and being optimized from the point of view of the fuel consumption required by this purge, while also being possibly adapted to an aged catalytic converter or to a particularly high exhaust gas flow rate.
- the strategy described above for controlling the supply of the engine, cylinder by cylinder makes it possible to heat the pot 11 to the required temperature without risk of destruction of the priming pots 12 ⁇ , 12 2 .
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| FR9908790 | 1999-07-07 | ||
| FR9908790A FR2796102B1 (fr) | 1999-07-07 | 1999-07-07 | Procede et dispositif de purge en oxydes de soufre d'un pot catalytique de traitement des gaz d'echappement d'un moteur a combustion interne |
| PCT/FR2000/001949 WO2001004479A1 (fr) | 1999-07-07 | 2000-07-06 | Procede et dispositif de purge en oxyde de soufre d'un pot catalytique de traitement des gaz d'echappement d'un moteur a combustion interne |
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| EP1192344A1 true EP1192344A1 (fr) | 2002-04-03 |
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| EP00949657A Withdrawn EP1192344A1 (fr) | 1999-07-07 | 2000-07-06 | Procede et dispositif de purge en oxyde de soufre d'un pot catalytique de traitement des gaz d'echappement d'un moteur a combustion interne |
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| EP (1) | EP1192344A1 (fr) |
| FR (1) | FR2796102B1 (fr) |
| WO (1) | WO2001004479A1 (fr) |
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| US7797929B2 (en) * | 2007-05-21 | 2010-09-21 | Ford Global Technologies, Llc | Low temperature emission control |
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| JP3140570B2 (ja) * | 1992-07-27 | 2001-03-05 | 三菱重工業株式会社 | 内燃機関の脱硝装置 |
| EP0861972B1 (fr) * | 1995-11-17 | 2006-08-09 | Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha | Dispositif de reglage des emissions d'echappement pour moteurs a combustion interne |
| US5758493A (en) * | 1996-12-13 | 1998-06-02 | Ford Global Technologies, Inc. | Method and apparatus for desulfating a NOx trap |
| JPH11117786A (ja) * | 1997-10-17 | 1999-04-27 | Mitsubishi Motors Corp | 内燃機関の排気浄化装置 |
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- 2000-07-06 WO PCT/FR2000/001949 patent/WO2001004479A1/fr not_active Ceased
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| FR2796102B1 (fr) | 2002-08-16 |
| WO2001004479A1 (fr) | 2001-01-18 |
| FR2796102A1 (fr) | 2001-01-12 |
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