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patent · US6810661

Method and system for freeze protecting liquid NOx reductants for vehicle application

2 November 2004

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Abstract

A method and system for freeze protecting liquid NO x reductants, preferably used in vehicle applications, wherein a liquid NO x reductant, carried onboard a vehicle exposed to cold weather conditions, is heated by existing thermal energy generated by fuel compression. The heated fuel heats a potentially frozen reductant and the liquid reductant is supplied to an exhaust gas pipe in front of a catalyst for reducing NO x on the surface of the catalyst and catalytically conv...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2002-08-09
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2004-11-02
Inventors
Christine Kay Lambert; Rolf Backes; Ford Global Technologies LLC