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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2019
Woodward, Inc., Fort Collins, CO (US);
Daniel B. Mastbergen, Loveland, CO (US);
Domenico Chiera, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Gregory James Hampson, Boulder, CO (US);
Yi Han, Fort Collins, CO (US);
James Po-Chang Chiu, Longmont, CO (US);
Doug Leone, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Henry David Gemmill Knutzen, Loveland, CO (US);
Samuel James McCreery, Loveland, CO (US);
Woodward, Inc., Fort Collins, CO (US);
Abstract
A convergent nozzle is in a mixer housing and in a flow path from an air inlet of the mixer to an outlet of the mixer. A convergent-divergent nozzle is in the mixer housing and includes an air-exhaust gas inlet in fluid communication to receive fluid flow from the convergent nozzle and from the interior of the exhaust gas housing. A first nozzle module is configured to be received in the mixer housing and, when received in the mixer housing, define at least a portion of the convergent nozzle or the convergent-divergent nozzle. A second nozzle module is configured to be received in the mixer housing separate from the first nozzle module. The second nozzle module, when received in the mixer housing, is configured to define at least a portion of the convergent or the convergent-divergent nozzle. The second nozzle module has a different flow characteristic than the first nozzle module.