Webasto Ag Fahrzeugtechnik

Rainer Kolodzie

Dieter Goerlich

Roland Fiola

Rainer Reiter

The invention relates to a high performance burner whose performance can be controlled in a stepless manner. To this end, a premixing chamber is upstream of a burner nozzle that extends into a combustion chamber. Fuel is supplied in controllable amounts to the premixing chamber, and a mixture, in the form of an emulsion, is prepared therefrom by means of air supplied from an auxiliary air line. The air-fuel mixture thus prepared is passed to the burner nozzle which diffuses it in the combustion chamber. A high performance burner in accordance with the invention is designed for use as a heating device of high performance, like an independent heating device but, advantageously, can be employed as an exhaust gas afterburner, whereby the high performance burner is disposed in an exhaust gas line of a combustion engine, or a branch line thereto. The afterburning of the exhaust gases being usable for generating of heat by way of an exhaust gas heat exchanger, as well as for the regeneration of soot filters in combustion engines, particularly Diesel combustion engines.

High performance burner

A burner for difficult to combust gas mixtures, particularly those including exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, that is preferably intended for the regeneration of particle filter units in the exhaust gas duct of an internal combustion engine, such as a diesel internal combustion engine. For initiating the regeneration of such so-called soot filter units, the burner generates hot combustion gases at the outlet thereof. The burner includes, at a distance from the discharge opening of a fuel injection nozzle, a baffle barrier that extends approximately perpendicular to the center axis of the fuel injection nozzle. This baffle barrier divides the combustion chamber into an energy-rich zone with a gas mixture prepared to be ignitable and a second zone in which the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine is diverted. In this way, the burner can also burn even difficult to combust gas mixtures and can reliably maintain, regardless of the operation conditions of the internal combustion engine, a flame in the combustion chamber for generating hot combustion gases.

Burner for difficult to combust gas mixtures

A burner for hard-to-ignite mixtures, such as with exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, in which an ignitable mixture is prepared in a locally limited area for producing an ignition flame that is then used for igniting the hard-to-ignite mixture. According to one embodiment, the burner has an auxiliary ignition burner that is integrated into the actual burner and that is operated with compressed air, which is delivered either by a vehicle compressed air system or by a separately provided air compressor. In an alternative embodiment, air is fed in, additionally, by an air injection device to an outlet area of the fuel nozzle and in the vicinity of the ignition device to prepare an extremely ignitable mixture in this area, which is used to generate an ignition flame. The air injection device can be supplied with compressed air in the same manner as for the auxiliary ignition burner in the first embodiment. Alternatively, ambient air with sufficient oxygen content can be fed in through the air injection device.

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Munich, Germany

Rainer Kolodzie