EP2738378B1 - Aktivkohlekanister mit Flüssigkeitsabscheider - Google Patents

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EP2738378B1
EP2738378B1 EP12008025.4A EP12008025A EP2738378B1 EP 2738378 B1 EP2738378 B1 EP 2738378B1 EP 12008025 A EP12008025 A EP 12008025A EP 2738378 B1 EP2738378 B1 EP 2738378B1
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Björn Stell
Karsten Danielowski
Tho Truong Huynh
Piers Catton
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M25/00—Engine-pertinent apparatus for adding non-fuel substances or small quantities of secondary fuel to combustion-air, main fuel or fuel-air mixture
    • F02M25/08—Engine-pertinent apparatus for adding non-fuel substances or small quantities of secondary fuel to combustion-air, main fuel or fuel-air mixture adding fuel vapours drawn from engine fuel reservoir
    • F02M25/0854—Details of the absorption canister
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M25/00—Engine-pertinent apparatus for adding non-fuel substances or small quantities of secondary fuel to combustion-air, main fuel or fuel-air mixture
    • F02M25/08—Engine-pertinent apparatus for adding non-fuel substances or small quantities of secondary fuel to combustion-air, main fuel or fuel-air mixture adding fuel vapours drawn from engine fuel reservoir
    • F02M2025/0863—Engine-pertinent apparatus for adding non-fuel substances or small quantities of secondary fuel to combustion-air, main fuel or fuel-air mixture adding fuel vapours drawn from engine fuel reservoir with means dealing with condensed fuel or water, e.g. having a liquid trap

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  • the invention refers to a fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus including a housing defining at least one main vapor storage compartment filled with an adsorbent material, at least one atmospheric vent port and at least one purge port, said vapor inlet port being connected to a fuel tank venting line and also said purge port being connectable to an engine air intake line, wherein said main vapor storage compartment comprises a purge buffer zone.
  • Fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatuses of the above-referred kind are generally known in the art, and are sometimes referred to as so-called carbon canisters.
  • the gasoline fuel used in many internal combustion engines is quite volatile. Evaporative emissions of fuel vapor from a vehicle having an internal combustion engine occur principally due to venting of fuel tanks of the vehicle. When the vehicle is parked, changes in temperature or pressure cause air laden with hydrocarbons to escape from the fuel tank. Some of the fuel inevitably evaporates into the air within the tank and thus takes the form of vapor. If the air emitted from the fuel tank was allowed to flow untreated into the atmosphere, it would inevitably carry with it this fuel vapor.
  • the fuel tank of a car is vented through a conduit to a canister containing suitable fuel adsorbent materials such as activated carbon.
  • suitable fuel adsorbent materials such as activated carbon.
  • High-surface area granular or pelletized activated carbon material are widely used and temporarily adsorb the fuel vapor.
  • carbon canisters/fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatuses have a limited adsorption capacity
  • carbon canisters normally have to be regenerated now and then. Regeneration is normally achieved via purging from the engine manifold, i.e. an engine air intake line draws atmospheric air backwards through the carbon canister, so that hydrocarbons are delivered to the engine for burning-off with the engine intake air.
  • hydrocarbon laden gas is drawn via the fuel tank vent line through the carbon canister into the engine air intake line.
  • the suction in the purge line/engine air intake line fully builds up, ambient air is drawn through the atmospheric vent port from the upstream end of the carbon canister towards its downstream end, i.e. from end to end, thus, regenerating the carbon bed.
  • purge buffers In order to prevent direct purging of hydrocarbons from the fuel tank directly into the engine air intake line and thereby partially bypassing the adsorbent material within the carbon canister, it is generally known to provide a so-called purge buffer within the carbon canister.
  • purge buffers eliminate hydrocarbon peaks within the engine air intake stream, which occasionally causes difficulties in controlling the exhaust emission. More specifically, purge buffers within the carbon canister avoid that the engine intake mixture becomes too rich during engine start-up.
  • a carbon canister of the above-referred kind with a purge buffer is for instance disclosed in WO 2009/073323 A2 .
  • the fuel vapor recovery apparatus according to WO 2009/073323 A2 includes a transfer conduit configured to provide means for communicating a vacuum produced in an engine to the carbon bed in the interior region of a housing to cause a fuel vapor mixture laden with hydrocarbon material released from the carbon bed to be discharged from the interior region of the housing, so that the fuel vapor mixture can be burnt in the engine.
  • This transfer conduit includes a siphon portal formed to include a fuel vapor outlet adapted to be coupled in a vapor delivery system coupled to an engine.
  • the transfer conduit includes a bed siphon arranged to extend into the interior region of the housing and into the carbon bed and formed to include a primary air inlet located in the carbon bed to ensure that some fuel vapor admitted into the interior region of the housing through the outside airport must pass through the carbon bed before entering the bed siphon through the primary air inlet.
  • the bed siphon of the transfer conduit extends downwardly into the carbon bed to locate the primary air inlet in the carbon bed along an imaginary partition line separating the carbon bed into an upper carbon bed and a lower carbon bed. Thus, any hydrocarbon-laden gas directly drawn from the vapor inlet port/tank port into the purge line must first flow through a portion of the carbon bed.
  • Another carbon canister including a buffering activated carbon chamber which is located adjacent to a purge port of a canister and which forms a so-called purge buffer is for instance disclosed by US 7,047,952 B1 . Additionally, there is a partition plate provided between the tank port and the purge port for preventing these parts from directly communicating with each other.
  • the carbon canister disclosed by US 7,047,952 B1 includes a main adsorbent chamber and first and second chambers provided between the main adsorbent chamber and said purge port, one of the first and second chambers containing activated carbon, the other one of the chambers serving as an air chamber.
  • the first and second chambers are arranged at an upstream end at the main adsorbent chamber and are in communication with each other by a passage in a buffer plate.
  • the arrangement is such that in effect the purge buffer is arranged in a separate chamber, and the air chamber and the purge buffer are arranged side by side, such that the partition wall between the chambers also creates a carbon dead zone within the main carbon chamber.
  • Applicant created a design of a fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus of the above-referred kind, comprising a purge buffer volume, which is arranged such that the built-up of dead zones within the adsorbent material during purging is minimized as far as possible.
  • the adsorption capacity of an adsorption bed is strongly affected by the ingress of liquid hydrocarbons, since fuel droplets block the microporous structure of the activated carbon, so that at least in the fuel tank venting line or upstream the vapor inlet port of the fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus at least one liquid trap has to be provided in order to keep liquid hydrocarbons away from the carbon bed.
  • Liquid trap compartments or droplet separators known in the art require relatively large space.
  • An example of a liquid trap known in the art is shown in US-4655189 .
  • a fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus including a housing defining at least one main vapor storage compartment filled with an adsorbent material, at least one vapor inlet port, at least one atmospheric vent port and at least one purge port, said vapor inlet port being connectable to a fuel tank venting line and said purge port being connectable to an engine air intake line, wherein said main vapor storage compartment comprises at least one first fuel vapor distribution chamber not filled with an adsorbent material, wherein said first fuel vapor storage distribution chamber is arranged hydraulically upstream said purge buffer zone and directly communicating with said fuel vapor inlet port, wherein said first fuel vapor distribution chamber includes a liquid trap.
  • the fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus may comprise a purge buffer zone.
  • the purge buffer zone may be a part of the main vapor storage compartment
  • the first fuel vapor storage distribution chamber is arranged hydraulically upstream said purge buffer zone, so that this design provides an evenly distributed gas flow through the entire purge buffer zone at least during purging operation.
  • the first fuel vapor distribution chamber is preferably a circumferentially extending chamber, which includes a liquid trap.
  • the inventive idea is basically to provide an air distribution chamber with a dual purpose, namely on the one hand evenly distributing the gas flow through the buffer zone and on the other hand providing a liquid trap as well as a reservoir for liquid fuel.
  • purge buffer zone does form part of the main vapor storage compartment in the sense of the instant application does not necessarily exclude the separation of the purge buffer zone from the main vapor storage compartment by a filter mesh, screen or the like.
  • upstream and downstream are meant to be understood relative to the described operation of the carbon canister, i.e. venting operation or purging operation.
  • a reversed gas flow is induced within the carbon canister from the atmospheric vent port to the carbon bed towards the purge port.
  • venting operation a gas flow through the carbon canister is induced from the tank port towards the atmospheric vent port.
  • a kind of short cut gas flow is induced from the tank port towards the purge port as long as the flow resistance through the fuel tank vent line is smaller than the flow resistance through the carbon bed of the carbon canister.
  • the adsorption material and adsorption bed is referred to as carbon bed or carbon
  • the adsorption material may be activated carbon or any other suitable adsorbent.
  • the adsorbent may be in the form of a bed of granular material, alternatively and/or additionally the adsorbent comprises monolithic carbon and/or other monolithic adsorbent materials.
  • said purge buffer zone is enclosed by said first fuel vapor distribution chamber. This allows for a very compact design of the fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus with maximum exploitation of space.
  • said liquid trap includes at least one droplet separator.
  • Said droplet separator may be in the form of a circumferential intermediate partition wall within said first fuel vapor distribution chamber.
  • Said partition wall may be simply in form of a ring welded inside the canister at any rotational position.
  • said first fuel vapor distribution chamber includes two stories, one of these stories, preferably the upper one, forms a liquid trap volume, in particular if the mounting position of the housing of the fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus is basically horizontally, i.e. lying.
  • said first fuel vapor distribution chamber includes a circumferential bottom partition wall, said partition wall sloping towards the periphery of the housing.
  • bottom in the above-mentioned sense is also meant hydraulically rather than referring to the mounting position of the housing.
  • the fuel vapor distribution chamber at least partially has a kind of triangular cross-section.
  • a carbon dead zone would be created during purging. So the design according to the instant application very effectively utilizes this space for an extension of the fuel vapor distribution chamber downstream, so that an additional liquid trap volume may be created which is fully integrated into the housing at least space requirements.
  • the bottom partition wall comprises a grid or frame structure.
  • This grid or frame structure may support a screen, which is permeable to fuel vapor.
  • At least one hole/cut-out may be provided, which establishes a communication between the upstream of the air distribution chamber and the downstream part of the air distribution chamber, so as to form a winding part or labyrinth for the gas entering the fuel vapor inlet port.
  • an additional vertical wall or an additional volume for liquid fuel is provided within the fuel vapor distribution chamber.
  • additional volume may be provided by a cup suspended from the intermediate partition wall.
  • the fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus includes first and second fuel vapor distribution chambers, wherein said second fuel vapor distribution chamber is arranged downstream said purge buffer zone and communicates with said purge port, both said first and said second fuel vapor storage compartment being not filled with adsorbent material.
  • the purge buffer zone forms part of the adsorbent filling of the main vapor storage compartment and said purge buffer zone is arranged at a downstream end portion of the main vapor storage compartment in a dead zone of adsorbent material during venting operation.
  • "Dead zone” in this context means that the adsorbent material during the course of a normal venting operation of the fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus is not or almost not passed by hydrocarbon-laden gas charged from the tank port.
  • One particularly useful embodiment of the fuel vapor storage apparatus is characterized in that the adsorbent material has a stepped configuration at said end portion of said main vapor storage compartment, an elevated portion thereof forming said purge buffer zone.
  • Said purge buffer zone may be in the form of a buffer ring at an end face of the adsorbent filling of said main vapor storage compartment. Ring in the sense of the instant application does not mean that the purge buffer zone necessarily has to have a circular cross section.
  • Said purge buffer zone may be defined by an inner wall of the second vapor storage compartment and by said partition wall of said fuel vapor distribution chamber.
  • the fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus may include one or more vapor storage compartments which may be connected in series.
  • the fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus comprises at least one further or secondary vapor storage compartment, which is connected in series with said main vapor storage compartment.
  • the main and secondary vapor storage compartments may be arranged in concentric relationship to each other.
  • the main vapor storage compartment may include a tubular adsorbent bed or tubular configuration enclosing a tubular or cylindrical inner channel forming a further adsorbent bed connected in series with a main adsorbent bed with said main vapor storage compartment.
  • a fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus 1 is illustrated in Figure 1 .
  • the fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus 1 includes a generally cylindrical housing 2, which encloses a main vapor storage compartment 3 as well as further vapor storage compartments 4, 5, 6.
  • the housing includes a vapor inlet port 7, an atmospheric vent port 8, and a purge port 9.
  • All vapor storage compartments 3, 4, 5, and 6 are connected in series and the main vapor storage compartment 3 surrounds the second and third vapor storage compartment 4 and 5, i.e. the main vapor storage compartment 3 and the second and third vapor storage compartment 4 and 5 are arranged in concentric relationship to each other.
  • the main vapor storage compartment 3 as well as the second and forth vapor storage compartments 4 and 6 are filled/packed with granular or pelletized activated coal as an adsorbent.
  • the third vapor storage compartment 5 may be filled with a monolithic adsorbent material such as monolithic carbon. Additionally and/or alternatively, the third vapor storage compartment can include one or more purge heaters, or an heat exchanger.
  • first fuel vapor distribution chamber 10 which has in the described preferred embodiment an annular shape and extends along the upstream end face of the main fuel vapor storage compartment 3.
  • the first fuel vapor distribution chamber 10 is not filled or packed with any adsorbent material, i.e. is basically empty and communicates via porous structure 11 with the main vapor storage compartment 3.
  • a porous structure within the meaning of the invention described herein may be a single structure, which is selfsupportingly struct or an assembly, which includes a support, e.g. a frame structure and a filter mesh.
  • the porous structure 11 is provided by a sloping bottom partition wall of the first fuel vapor distribution chamber 10.
  • the first fuel vapor distribution chamber comprises an outer wall 12, being part of the cylindrical housing 2 and an inner partition wall 13, which shields or seals a purge buffer zone 14 against the fuel vapor distribution chamber 10. Said purge buffer zone 14 surrounds said fourth vapor storage compartment 6.
  • second and third and forth vapor storage compartments 4, 5, and 6 only one secondary or second vapor storage compartment could be present, which not necessarily has to be arranged in concentric relationship to the main vapor storage compartment 3.
  • the hydrocarbon-laden gas is evenly distributed over the upstream face of the main vapor storage compartment 3 and will be passed through the main vapor storage compartment 3 into an air chamber 15 at the downstream end of the main vapor storage compartment 3.
  • This air chamber 15 is provided between a bottom plate 16 of the housing 2 and a porous structure 17 or bottom grid at the "downstream end" of the main vapor storage compartment 3.
  • Downstream in this regard refers to the normal venting operation of the fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus 1.
  • the second, third and forth vapor storage compartments 4, 5, and 6 are defined by tubular inserts 18, 19, which extend within housing 2 and are surrounded by the main vapor storage compartment 3.
  • the tubular insert 18 includes cylindrical dividers 20, which cooperate with cylindrical dividers 20a of the bottom plate 16. More specifically, the cylindrical dividers 20a of a cap retainer 32 extend into gaps between the dividers 20 of the tubular insert 18, so as to form an extended air flow path, the length of which is determined by the amount of dividers 20 and 20a.
  • the cap retainer 32 supports the porous structure 17. In this air flow path 21, the wholly or partially cleaned gas exiting the downstream end of the first vapor storage compartment is deviated several times in a 180° direction until it enters the second vapor storage compartment 4.
  • the third vapor storage compartment 5 includes a cup-shaped insert 22, which also defines an extended winding air flow path or air flow gap 23, where the air flow is again deviated several times in a 180° direction until it enters the third vapor storage compartment 5.
  • a forth vapor storage compartment 6 provided which may also be packed with adsorbent material.
  • the housing 2 includes a purge port 9, which communicates with a second fuel vapor distribution chamber 24.
  • the second fuel vapor distribution chamber 24 is also formed as an annular chamber, which is defined by an outer wall 25, an inner wall 26, and a bottom grid section 27.
  • the bottom grid section 27 is a porous structure as mentioned before and is generally selfsupportingly rigid.
  • the bottom grid section grid 27 may additionally support a filter mesh.
  • the bottom grid section 27 at the same time defines an upstream face of the purge buffer zone 14.
  • the outer wall 25 of the second fuel vapor distribution chamber is defined by an inner diameter of the partition wall 13.
  • the purge buffer zone 14 is not separated from the adsorbent filling of the main vapor storage compartment 3. A person skilled in the art will however appreciate that the purge buffer zone 14 may be separated by a porous member.
  • the bottom grid section 27 of the second fuel vapor distribution chamber 24 completely covers the downstream face of the purge buffer zone 14.
  • suction will be applied to the purge port 9 via an engine air intake line. This suction will be evenly applied to the entire cross section of the purge buffer zone 14 via second vapor distribution chamber 24. This causes in first instance a pressure drop at the vapor inlet port 7, so that at the very beginning of the purging operation fuel vapor will be drawn from the tank line via vapor inlet port into the first vapor distribution chamber 10.
  • the fuel vapor initially tends to take the shortest route from the fuel vapor inlet port 7 to the purge part 9, however it is prevented from doing so by the partition wall 3, so that the fuel vapor has to pass the porous structure 11 and to enter into the main vapor storage compartment 3.
  • the fuel-laden gas will enter the purge buffer zone 14 from below and thereby will be distributed evenly over the entire cross section of the purge buffer zone 14. From the purge buffer zone 14, the gas will then enter into the second fuel vapor distribution chamber 24, which completely extends over and communicates with the downstream face of the fuel buffer zone 14, so that the gas will be evenly distributed over the entire cross section of purge buffer zone 14.
  • said bottom partition wall 29 of said first fuel vapor distribution chamber 10 is sloping towards the periphery of the housing 2 and forms a sloping shoulder of the main vapor storage compartment. Due to this design, the first fuel vapor distribution chamber 10 in its bottom area has a triangular bottom cross-section and occupies a space which normally would form a carbon dead zone.
  • the bottom partition wall 29 includes a molded frame structure, which supports a screen or mesh.
  • the bottom wall 27 of the second fuel vapor distribution chamber 24 has a similar structure.
  • Said first fuel vapor distribution chamber 10 is divided into an upper 10a and a lower part 10b by a liquid trap ring 30 welded onto the inner partition wall 13, so that the upstream story of the first fuel vapor distribution chamber 10 acts as a liquid trap reservoir.
  • the liquid trap ring 30 acts a droplet collector. Gas entering said upper part 10a of said first air distribution chamber 10 via vapor inlet port 7 will be directed to the lower part 10b of the air distribution chamber 10 through a slot 31 in the liquid trap ring 30.
  • the housing 2 of the fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus 1 basically extends horizontally, so that the upper upstream part 10a of said first fuel vapor distribution chamber 10 defines a liquid volume and the liquid trap ring 30 with the slot 31 defining a winding path for the gas. It is to be understood that the slot 31 is arranged on a radius of the liquid trap ring 30, such that the liquid trap ring 30 in any event forms a barrier for liquid hydrocarbon eventually being collected in the upper part 10a of the first fuel vapor distribution chamber 10.

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  1. Speicherungs- und Rückgewinnungseinrichtung für Kraftstoffdämpfe (1), aufweisend zumindest ein mit einem Adsorptionsmaterial gefülltes Gehäuse aufweist, das einen Hauptraum zur Kraftstoffdampfspeicherung (3) definiert,
    zumindest einen Eingangsanschluss für Kraftstoffdämpfe (7),
    zumindest einen atmosphärischen Belüftungsanschluss (8), und
    zumindest einen Rückspülanschluss (9),
    wobei der Eingangsanschluss für Kraftstoffdämpfe (7) mit einer Belüftungsleitung für einen Kraftstofftank verbindbar ist und der Rückspülanschluss (9) mit einer Lufteinlassleitung für einen Motor verbindbar ist,
    wobei der Hauptraum zur Kraftstoffdampfspeicherung (3) vorzugsweise einen Rückspülpufferbereich (14) aufweist und zumindest einen ersten Kraftstoffdampfverteilungsraum (10) aufweist, welcher nicht mit einem Adsorptionsmaterial gefüllt ist,
    wobei der erste Kraftstoffdampfverteilungsraum (10) dem Rückspülpufferbereich (14) hydraulisch vorgelagert angeordnet ist und direkt mit dem Eingangsanschluss für Kraftstoffdämpfe (7) kommuniziert,
    wobei der erste Kraftstoffdampfverteilungsraum (10) eine Flüssigkeitsfalle (30) aufweist
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    die Flüssigkeitsfalle (30) zumindest einen Tropfenabscheider (30) aufweist,
    wobei der Tropfenabscheider (30) eine umlaufende Zwischentrennwand (30) innerhalb des einen ersten Kraftstoffdampfverteilungsraums (10) aufweist.
  2. Speicherungs- und Rückgewinnungseinrichtung für Kraftstoffdämpfe nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der erste Kraftstoffdampfverteilungsraum (10) eine umlaufende Bodentrennwand (29) mit dem Hauptraum zur Kraftstoffdampfspeicherung (3) gemein hat, wobei die Bodentrennwand (29) zur Peripherie des Gehäuses (2) hin geneigt ist.
  3. Speicherungs- und Rückgewinnungseinrichtung für Kraftstoffdämpfe nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Bodentrennwand (29) eine Gitter- oder Rahmenstruktur aufweist.
  4. Speicherungs- und Rückgewinnungseinrichtung für Kraftstoffdämpfe nach Anspruch 3, wobei die Gitter- oder Rahmenstruktur eine Abdeckung trägt, die für Kraftstoffdämpfe permeabel ist.
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US14/647,612 US9759167B2 (en) 2012-11-28 2013-11-20 Carbon canister including liquid separator
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