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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2004
Wayne G. Wnuck, South Windsor, CT (US);
KE Liu, East Longmeadow, MA (US);
Wayne G. Wnuck, South Windsor, CT (US);
Ke Liu, East Longmeadow, MA (US);
HydrogenSource LLC, South Windsor, CT (US);
Abstract
A single lean NOx trap () has an inlet manifold () with baffles () to divide the inlet manifold into three flow paths (). Each flow path has a thermal reformer (; CPO, (POX, or ATR) with an electric heater provided electric power by related lines (). Fuel from a source () is controlled () to apply pulses of fuel through nozzles () into each corresponding path () in turn. A plurality of diesel particulate filters () are disposed in the flow paths () upstream of the lean NOx trap (). A diesel oxidation catalyst () is disposed downstream of the lean NOx trap.