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Catalytic device with internal heat exchange

a technology of heat exchange and catalytic device, which is applied in the direction of fuel cell auxiliaries, exhaust treatment, metal/metal-oxide/metal-hydroxide catalysts, etc., can solve the problems of significant disadvantage in the connection of electric coils, and the electric energy use is affected, so as to reduce or control the heat exchange, reduce or control the effect of heat exchang

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-03-09
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[0012] Further, by the invention is it obtained that the maximum temperature in the catalytic device is always nearly constant whatever the inlet temperature, but assuming a certain minimum inlet temperature and minimum amount of combustible material. Hereby, the catalytic device can be designed to work at a very specific temperature, as an example at 600° C., by which it is possible, partly to ensure a better and safer burnout of the unburned components, and partly to save expenses for catalytic materials as a catalyst that is designed for a certain temperature can be made from materials that are less expensive than the materials for a catalyst that has to work over a large temperature range.
[0062] The different aspects of the invention make the catalytic device and especially the heat exchange more efficient the slower the chemical reactions in the catalyst are, and vice versa. Therefore, the catalytic device will, by itself, set itself for the right temperature so that all reactions precisely can be completed in the catalytic device.

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However, an inlet temperature of 200° C. does not necessarily result in a maximum temperature of 400° C. as the temperature at that time is too low for the reactions to take place and the catalyst will be wholly or partly inactive.
However, the heat exchange is not enough to achieve satisfying and stabile temperature conditions inside the catalyst in the heating-up periods and thus, the catalyst comprises temperature regulating means in opposite ends of the container.
The means may for example be electric coils connected to an electric power supply positioned outside the catalyst with the disadvantage of the electric energy use.
Further, the connection for the electric coils is a significant disadvantage due to the price, complexity and vulnerability of the coils and the connections.

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[0143] In a first embodiment that preferably is used in an application involving a gas engine e.g. in connection with a combined power and heat plant, the plant may have a nominal electric effect of 30 kW.

[0144] The length X is approximately 1.0 meter and the height or diameter Y is approximately 0.3 meter. The UHC value (unburned hydrocarbon) is between 3 and 8% of the firing rate to the engine.

[0145] An application with a gas engine may in a preferred embodiment include a catalytic device with at least 50 pipes in a passage section as illustrated in FIGS. 3 to 5 or 15. The diameter of the pipes is approximately 6 to 8 millimeters.

second embodiment

[0146] In a second embodiment that preferably is used in an application involving a gas engine e.g. in connection with a combined power and heat plant, the plant may have a nominal electric effect of 500 kW.

[0147] The length X is approximately 1.5 meter and the height or diameter Y is approximately 0.7 meter. The UHC value (unburned hydrocarbon) is between 3 and 8% of the firing rate to the engine.

[0148] An application with a gas engine may in a preferred embodiment include a catalytic device with at least 200 pipes in a passage section as illustrated in FIG. 3 to 5 or 15. The diameter of the pipes is approximately 8 to 12 millimeters.

third embodiment

[0149] In a third embodiment that preferably is used in an application involving an internal petrol fuelled combustion engine e.g. in connection with vehicles.

[0150] The length X is approximately 0.2 to 0.4 meter and the height or diameter Y is approximately 0.2 meter.

[0151] The UHC value (unburned hydrocarbon) is between 0.5 and 5% of the firing rate to the petrol combustion engine. The value can in a preferred embodiment be raised to approximately 5 to 10% in order to achieve higher temperatures inside the catalytic device by burning further hydrocarbons inside the device. Higher temperatures in the catalytic device mean that catalytic material is saved. Higher values than 10% of the firing rate will affect the efficiency of the petrol combustion engine.

[0152] An application with a petrol combustion engine may in a preferred embodiment include a catalytic device with at least 50 pipes in a passage section as illustrated in FIG. 3 to 5 or 15.

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Abstract

The invention relates to a catalytic device with internal heat exchange that among other things can be used for vehicles with an internal combustion engine or for stationary engines where there is a certain amount of unburned gas components in the exhaust that can be converted in the catalyst. By the invention it is obtained that the maximum temperature in the catalyst is always nearly constant whatever the inlet temperature. Hereby, the catalyst can be designed to work at a very specific temperature, by which it is possible, partly to ensure a better and safer burnout of the unburned components, and partly to save expenses for catalyst materials. The exhaust gas is guided through the catalyst by at least three passage sections that have a mutual internal heat exchange. In the main reaction passage section there are catalytic materials of one or several kinds, in which the gas can react, and in which the gases heat exchange with the succeeding main heat transfer passage section passage.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] The invention relates to a method for treatment of a fluid quantity including chemical reacting means such as combustible materials and a catalytic device according to the preamble of claim 5. [0002] Most of the known catalysts for cleaning of exhaust gasses from internal combustion engines contain no internal heat exchange. This means that the maximum temperature in the catalyst depends on the inlet temperature in said catalyst. If the unburned gas components by combustion e.g. can increase the temperature in the catalyst by 200° C. an inlet temperature of 300° C. will result in a maximum temperature of 500° C., an inlet temperature of 400° C. will result in a maximum temperature of 600° C., etc. However, an inlet temperature of 200° C. does not necessarily result in a maximum temperature of 400° C. as the temperature at that time is too low for the reactions to take place and the catalyst will be wholly or partly inactive. [0003] However, catalys...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): F01N3/00F01N3/10F01N5/02B01D53/86B01D53/94B01J8/02B01J23/40F01N3/24F01N3/28H01M8/04
CPCB01D53/86F01N2570/14B01J8/0221B01J8/0285B01J8/0292B01J23/40B01J2208/00495B01J2208/0053B01J2219/32296B01J2219/32466B01J2219/32475F01N3/2828F01N3/2835F01N2330/02F01N2330/06F01N2330/10F01N2570/10F01N2570/12B01D53/94Y02A50/20
Inventor RASMUSSEN, NIELS BJARNE KAMPP
Owner RECCAT
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