摘要:
An exhaust gas purification system for internal combustion engines having at least two cylinders of which the port of each exhaust valve communicates with a port passage provided in the cylinder head, and a pair of the adjacent port passages communicate with a common port passage forming a siamese port passage therewith. A secondary air intake passage having a check valve communicates with the port passages for introducing secondary air by exhaust pulsation. In order to enhance the exhaust pulsation effect, the exhaust pipe connected to the opening of the common port passage has a constant cross section of a fixed diameter. Heat insulation is provided along the siamese port passage and a portion of the exhaust pipe for good oxidation of the unburned constituents. The total volume of the exhaust passage through the siamese port passage and the heat insulated exhaust pipe portion is equal to the displacement volume of the corresponding cylinders for introduction of a sufficient amount of the secondary air. The ignition timing is retarded to restrict the combustion temperature to under 2000.degree. C. for reducing the amount of nitrogen oxides.
摘要:
A temperature sensor is disposed at the upstream or middle portion of a reactor for oxidizing the unburned constituents contained in the exhaust gases discharged from the combustion chambers of the engine. The air-fuel ratio of the air-fuel mixture supplied to the combustion chambers is controlled so as to maintain the temperature of the upstream or middle portion of the reactor at the predetermined level in the vicinity of but higher than the temperature corresponding to the critical point where the temperature of the downstream portion of the reactor begins to decrease.
摘要:
A power plant in which a turbine is driven by the combustion products of hydrocarbon fuel, air under superatomspheric pressure, and the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine. Air is supplied by a compressor which is driven by the turbine.
摘要:
An air-pollution preventive arrangement for use with an internal combustion engine for motor vehicles, adapted to reduce the concentrations of noxious compounds such as unburned hydrocarbons and carbon-monoxides contained in the engine exhaust gases. The arrangement comprises a thermal reactor for primarily recombusting the exhaust gases and a catalytic converter for secondarily recombusting the exhaust gases passed from the thermal reactor so as to oxidize the residual unburned compounds. An air injection unit supplies additional air which is admixed, in a limited proportion, to the exhaust gases entering the thermal reactor to aid in the primary re-combustion of the exhaust gases therein. The noxious unconsumed hydrocarbons and carbon-monoxides are thus converted into innocuous compounds at efficiencies which are far higher than those attained where the thermal reactor or the catalytic converter is employed independently. Such additional air may also be admixed to the exhaust gases entering the catalytic converter which is located downstream of the thermal reactor, whereby the re-combustion efficiencies of the reactor and converter are maintained at high levels throughout varying driving conditions of the motor vehicle. The arrangement may also comprise a second catalytic converter which is adapted to reduce nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gases.
摘要:
In an afterburner installed in an engine exhaust system, a temperature sensor is positioned to establish when the temperature in the afterburner exceeds a predetermined value so that the engine intake system can be placed in communication with the atmosphere and the connection between the accelerator pedal and the throttle valve can be broken off. Consequently, the fuel supply to the engine is interrupted and the afterburner is cooled by the introduced air.
摘要:
A centralized control system for coordinating a plurality of vehicular air-pollution preventive devices in such a manner as to minimize the harmful contents of the automotive exhaust gases. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes six air-pollution preventive devices; an ignition timing retarding device, an exhaust gas after-burning device, a fuel vapor trapping device, an exhaust gas recirculating device, an atmospheric air introducing device and a device for reducing hydrocarbon exhaust during deceleration. The system also includes five sensors; a vehicle speed sensor, an intake manifold vacuum sensor, a throttle opening sensor, an engine temperature sensor and an exhaust temperature sensor, and a controller adapted to determine the individual predetermined conditions of engine operation during which the air-pollution preventive devices are placed in operation, in accordance with electric signals supplied thereto from these sensors. The controller, upon determination of such conditions, operates to keep the devices operative.
摘要:
A METHOD AND APPARATUS ARE PROVIDED FOR MAINTAINING THE TEMPERATURE OF HOT GASES BEING EXHAUSTED FROM AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITHIN A CONTROLLED RANGE FOR ASSURING A MAXIMIZED THERMAL REACTING OF HYDROCARBONS AND CARBON MONOXIDE WITH A MINIMIZED PRODUCTION OF NITROGEN OXIDES BEFORE DISCHARGE INTO THE ATMOSPHERE. THE METHOD AND APPARATUS EMPLOY FLUID-JACKETING OF AN EXHAUST MANIFOLD AND A VALVE SYSTEM OPERATIVELY-CONNECTED BETWEEN THE JACKETING AND AN INTAKE MANIFOLD TO
SUPPLY AIR TO THE JACKETING TO REDUCE THE TEMPERATURE OF THE EXHAUST GASES WHEN THE ENGINE IS OPERATING UNDER FULL OR HEAVY LOAD AND TO WITHDRAW AIR AND PROVIDE A MAXIMIZED INSULATING EFFECT WHEN THE ENGINE IS OPERATING UNDER A LOW LOAD OR IS IDLING.