Cummins Inc.

Cummins Ip, Inc.

C Larry Bruner

Timothy P Lutz

Edmund P Hodzen

J Steven Kolhouse

Axel Otto Zur Loye

Geomy George

Phanindra V Garimella

Fan Zeng

Krishna Kamasamudram

Mark A Rosswurm

Robert Charles Borregard

Shankar Kumar

Ian A Package

Vivek Anand Sujan

Anant Puri

Jinghua Zhong

Martin T Books

Jennifer Kay Light-Holets

Praveen Chitradurga Muralidhar

John Franklin Wright

Hoseinali Borhan

Ashok Kumar

Steven J Kolhouse

Christopher Pollitt

Junhui Li

Jacob A Brown

Prachetas A Kale

Dan Langenderfer

Udaya Uppala

Systems, methods and apparatus for controlling operation of dual fuel engines are disclosed that regulate the fuelling amounts provided by a first fuel and a second fuel during operation of the engine. The first fuel can be a liquid fuel and the second fuel can be a gaseous fuel. The fuelling amounts are controlled to improve operational outcomes of the duel fuel engine.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for operation of dual fuel engines

Systems, methods and apparatus for controlling operation of dual fuel engines are disclosed that regulate the fueling amounts provided by a first fuel and a second fuel during operation of the engine. The first fuel can be a liquid fuel and the second fuel can be a gaseous fuel. The fueling amounts are controlled to improve operational outcomes of the duel fuel engine.

A method and system for mitigating a urea deposit within an SCR system that includes determining a mass of an accumulated urea deposit present within the SCR catalyst and SCR piping, comparing the mass of the accumulated urea deposit with a deposit upper threshold limit, and initiating an SCR regeneration event when the mass of the accumulated urea deposit is greater than the deposit upper threshold limit. The method further includes determining an amount of NHpassing through the SCR catalyst downstream of the urea deposit, comparing the amount of NHpassing through the SCR catalyst with an NHregeneration threshold limit, and terminating the SCR regeneration event when the level of NHpassing through the SCR catalyst is less than the SCR NHregeneration threshold.

Method and system for mitigating urea deposits within an SCR catalyst system

Systems, methods and apparatus for controlling operation of an engine structured to combust gaseous fuel such as a dual fuel engine, including an estimation of key parameters dependent on natural gas quality, are disclosed. The natural gas quality parameters are estimated from natural gas properties obtained from various sensed parameters associated with the engine.

Gas quality virtual sensor for an internal combustion engine

The system comprises a fuel description module structured to provide a first signal, and a control circuit operable to receive the first signal. The fuel description module comprises a fuel consumption detection package. The fuel consumption detection package an intake manifold temperature sensor and an exhaust temperature sensor, wherein the first signal corresponds to a difference between the exhaust manifold temperature (EMT) and the intake manifold temperature (IMT). The control circuit is responsive to the first signal to produce a second signal indicating a total energy content (E) of fuel supplied to the dual-fuel engine. The Evalue indicating the total energy content provided to the engine from a first fuel and a second fuel.

Exhaust parameter based dual fuel engine power virtual sensor

The present disclosure relates to dual fuel internal combustion engines with multiple cylinder banks and/or cylinder subsets, and exhaust aftertreatment systems associated therewith. Systems and methods are disclosed that relate to engine operations involving fuelling control for fuel cutout of one or more of the cylinder banks and/or cylinder subsets in response to a fuel cutout event to increase gaseous fuel substitution on the other cylinder banks and/or cylinder subsets to satisfy the torque request and thermal management conditions of the aftertreatment system.

Dual fuel architecture and method for cylinder bank cutout and increased gas substitution during light load conditions

A system and method are disclosed for desulfating an oxidation catalyst in an aftertreatment system of a multifuel internal combustion engine. The oxidation catalyst can be desulfated in response to one or more desulfation triggering events. The desulfation process includes providing hydrocarbons from one or all of the multiple fuel sources to an upstream oxidation catalyst. The hydrocarbons react with the exhaust gas within the upstream oxidation catalyst to deplete oxygen in the exhaust flow to thereby reduce the desulfation temperature of the oxidation catalyst while elevating a temperature of the exhaust gas to a desulfation temperature range.

Systems and methods for desulfation of an oxidation catalyst for dual fuel engines

Systems and methods for controlling operation of dual fuel internal combustion engines in response to cylinder pressure based determinations are disclosed. The techniques control fueling contributions from a first fuel source and a second fuel source to achieve desired operational outcomes in response to the cylinder pressure based determinations.

Cylinder pressure based control of dual fuel engines

An engine starting system and technique include selecting a target engine speed profile from a plurality of engine speed profiles based on operator inputs and operating parameters of the vehicle. A feedback control strategy is used to substantially conform the engine speed with the target speed profile during starting until a target speed is reached in which fueling is initiated to start the engine.

Systems and methods for optimization and control of internal combustion engine starting

Systems and methods for controlling operation of dual fuel internal combustion engines in response to cylinder pressure based determinations are disclosed. The techniques control fuelling contributions from a first fuel source and a second fuel source to achieve desired operational outcomes in response to the cylinder pressure based determinations.

Systems and methods for controlling operation of dual fuel internal combustion engines are disclosed. The control techniques provide for override of a dual fuel mode of operation of the engine by selection of a diesel only fuelling mode in response to one or more operating conditions of the internal combustion engine.

Fuel selection system and method for dual fuel engines

Unique apparatuses, systems, methods, and techniques for control of engine systems are disclosed. One embodiment is a unique controls process providing engine start/stop functionality. In one form, the controls process includes engine stop controls which evaluate a plurality of engine stop request conditions and a plurality of engine stop capability conditions, as well as engine start controls which evaluate a plurality of engine start request conditions and a plurality of engine start capability conditions.

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Greenwood, IN, United States of America

C Larry Bruner