US 11,927,126 B2
Methods for evaluating diesel exhaust fluid quality
Charles Wayne Reinhardt Swart, Bellingham, WA (US); Cynthia Chaffin Webb, Sedro-Woolley, WA (US); Maarten Meijer, Anacortes, WA (US); and Varun Ramesh, Bellingham, WA (US)
Assigned to PACCAR INC, Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed by PACCAR Inc, Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/965,540.
Application 17/965,540 is a division of application No. 17/002,515, filed on Aug. 25, 2020, granted, now 11,499,463.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/058,986, filed on Jul. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/056,131, filed on Jul. 24, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/054,468, filed on Jul. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0034184 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. F01N 3/20 (2006.01); B01D 53/94 (2006.01); F01N 11/00 (2006.01); F01N 13/00 (2010.01)
CPC F01N 3/208 (2013.01) [B01D 53/9418 (2013.01); B01D 53/9495 (2013.01); F01N 11/00 (2013.01); F01N 13/009 (2014.06); F01N 13/0093 (2014.06); F01N 2550/03 (2013.01); F01N 2550/05 (2013.01); F01N 2610/02 (2013.01); F01N 2610/1406 (2013.01); F01N 2900/16 (2013.01); F01N 2900/1621 (2013.01); F01N 2900/1806 (2013.01); F01N 2900/1814 (2013.01); F01N 2900/1818 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of evaluating DEF quality in an emissions aftertreatment system (EAS) including an upstream selective catalytic reduction (SCR) unit and a downstream SCR unit, the method comprising:
during steady state operation of the EAS, varying an ammonia to NOx ratio of an internal combustion engine exhaust gas entering the upstream SCR unit;
determining a NOx conversion efficiency of the upstream SCR unit at a plurality of different ammonia to NOx ratios of the internal combustion engine exhaust gas;
comparing the determined NOx conversion efficiency of the upstream SCR unit to a target NOx conversion efficiency for the upstream SCR unit;
evaluating quality of diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) provided to the EAS by directly using a result of the comparing the determined NOx conversion efficiency of the upstream SCR unit to the target NOx conversion efficiency for the upstream SCR unit in the evaluating quality of the diesel exhaust fluid;
using a result of the evaluating quality of DEF provided to the EAS in adjusting the dosing of the DEF to the EAS; and
when the ammonia to NOx ratio of the internal combustion engine exhaust gas entering the upstream SCR unit is varied during the steady state operation of the EAS, reducing NOx content of the internal combustion engine exhaust gas in the downstream SCR unit.