Selective catalytic reduction system

US20130055700A1Inactive Publication Date: 2013-03-07ISUZU MOTORS LTD
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US · United States
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Publication Date
2013-03-07
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Abstract

A selective catalytic reduction system includes a urea aqueous solution tank to retain a urea aqueous solution to be injected into an exhaust pipe of an engine, a level sensor to detect a solution level height in the tank, a lowpass filter having a signal response characteristic in which a time constant is small when an engine rpm is low and the time constant is larger when the engine rpm is high, with respect to an output signal of the sensor, a remaining amount indicator to indicate a remaining amount of the solution based on an output signal of the sensor processed by the lowpass filter, and a unit to prohibit the engine from being started when the remaining amount of the solution is less than a lower limit value.
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TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The present invention relates to an SCR system that purifies exhaust gas by injecting a urea aqueous solution to the exhaust gas of a diesel vehicle, and more particularly, to an SCR system that can rapidly cancel engine start prohibition after filling the urea aqueous solution as well as preventing improper indication of deficiency of the urea aqueous solution by variation in solution level in a urea aqueous solution tank and unwanted engine start prohibition.BACKGROUND ART

[0002] As an exhaust gas purifying system for purifying NOx in the exhaust gas of a diesel engine, an SCR system using a SCR (selective catalytic reduction) apparatus has been developed.

[0003] The SCR system supplies the urea aqueous solution to upstream of the exhaust gas of the SCR apparatus, generates ammonia by heat of the exhaust gas, and reduces and purifies NOx on an SCR catalyst by the ammonia (see, for example, Patent Document 1).PRIOR ART DOCUMENTSPatent Documents

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[0020]Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[0021]As illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2, an SCR system 100 according to the present invention includes a urea aqueous solution tank 105 configured to retain a urea aqueous solution to be injected into an exhaust pipe 102 of an engine E, a level sensor 120 configured to detect a solution level height in the urea aqueous solution tank 105, a lowpass filter 1 having a signal response characteristic in which a time constant is small when an engine rpm is low and the time constant is larger when the engine rpm is high with respect to an output signal of the level sensor 120, a remaining amount indicator 2 configured to indicate a remaining amount of the urea aqueous solution based on an output signal of the level sensor 120 processed by the lowpass filter 1, and a start prohibiting unit 3 in deficiency of the urea aqueous solution configured to prohibit the engin...