Drive unit for a motor vehicle
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09670836B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-06

    申请号:US14326611

    申请日:2014-07-09

    Abstract: A drive unit for a motor vehicle that has a combustion machine having an internal combustion engine (10) as well as an exhaust gas system via which exhaust gas can be discharged from the internal combustion engine (10), and has a cyclic device that can be used to convert the thermal energy contained in the exhaust gas into mechanical work in a clockwise thermodynamic cycle, whereby the cycle comprises a heat transfer from the exhaust gas to a working medium in a first heat exchange device, as a result of which the temperature and/or the pressure of the working medium is increased, comprises an expansion of the working medium in an expansion device (30) for generating the mechanical work, and comprises a heat transfer from the working medium to a cooling medium in a second heat exchange device. The drive unit is refined in that the first heat exchange device comprises a first heat exchanger (20) and a second heat exchanger (26) as well as an intermediate circuit (22) containing a transfer medium, whereby in the first heat exchanger (20), thermal energy is transferred from the exhaust gas to the transfer medium, and in the second heat exchanger (26), thermal energy is transferred from the transfer medium to the working medium.

    Internal combustion engine having an exhaust heat recovery system as well as a method for recovering exhaust heat

    公开(公告)号:US11035270B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-15

    申请号:US16899563

    申请日:2020-06-11

    Abstract: An internal combustion engine having at least one combustion chamber, the internal combustion engine being connected via the exhaust thereof with an exhaust system. Disposed in the exhaust system is a heat exchanger of an exhaust heat recovery system, which can be used to transfer the waste heat of the exhaust gas to an operating fluid of the exhaust heat recovery system. Furthermore, the internal combustion engine is couplable to an air-conditioning compressor of an air-conditioning circuit. The exhaust heat recovery system has a further heat exchanger, in which the waste heat of a compressed refrigerant of the air-conditioning circuit is transferred to the operating fluid of the exhaust heat recovery system. A method for recovering the exhaust heat from such an internal combustion engine, an operating fluid of the exhaust heat recovery system being heated in a first method step by the waste heat of a compressed refrigerant of the air-conditioning circuit and, in a second method step, by the waste heat of the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine.

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