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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2004
Applicant:
Jong-hwan Lee, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Inventor:
Jong-Hwan Lee, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Assignee:
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01N 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The conversion of NOto nitrogen in the exhaust of a lean burn engine using a hydrocarbon assisted-selective catalytic reduction system is benefited by a two-stage oxidation catalyst-reduction catalyst SCR reactor. The character and quantity of the oxidation catalyst is managed to just activate the hydrocarbon reductant at low temperatures (but not fully burn it at high temperatures) to increase its NOreduction efficiency as the exhaust then contacts the larger reduction catalyst stage of the two-stage reactor.