A Competitive Approach to an Active Exhaust Heat Recovery System Solution Tenneco Incorporated

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Kotrba, Adam, author.

Contributor:

Bellard, Rapael

Gardner, Timothy

Kunkel, Brian

Morley, Nicholas

Stanavich, John

Conference Name:

WCX SAE World Congress Experience (2020-04-21 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2020

Summary:

As greenhouse gas regulations continue to tighten, more opportunities to improve engine efficiency emerge, including exhaust gas heat recovery. Upon cold starts, engine exhaust gases downstream of the catalysts are redirected with a bypass valve into a heat exchanger, transferring its heat to the engine coolant to accelerate engine warm-up. This has several advantages, including reduced fuel consumption, as the engine's efficiency improves with temperature. Furthermore, this accelerates readiness to defrost the windshield, improving both safety as well as comfort, with greater benefits in colder climates, particularly when combined with hybridization's need for engine on-time just for cabin heating. Such products have been in the market now for several years; however they are bulky, heavy and expensive, yielding opportunities for competitive alternatives. Customer voice expresses needs for less complex designs that reduce package space, mass, and part count (id est cost) while maintaining or improving performance, including the integration of an active rather than passive exhaust bypass control valve. This paper highlights the design evolution of EHRS, including relative benchmarking of competing products, comparing various aspects of performance through both 1-D and 3-D modeling as well as testing, including bench tests and vehicle. Performance enhancements are also demonstrated, yielding a product that is lightweight, easy to package and with significantly fewer components. Additionally, the applied valve and its actuator leverage decades of commercialized experiences from both active and passive exhaust valves, ensuring durability and avoidance of squeak and rattle concerns. Furthermore, such overlap of components across various valve technologies also leverages volumes to enable commercial benefits from the supply chain, as with the actuator already applied on millions of exhaust valves each year. Recommendations are made for future enhancements, such as further reducing package volume and system cost, particularly as hybridization continues to drive significant space and financial constraints

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Publisher Number:

2020-01-0161

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