Wastegate with injected flow
View Patent ↗A turbocharger turbine having housing walls defining a diffuser. Within the diffuser, a center body within the diffuser is supported by de-swirl vanes extending from the diffuser wall. The center body forms a de-swirl passageway having an increasing mean diameter of flow from an upstream end of the center body to a leading edge of the de-swirl vanes. A trailing edge of the de-swirl vanes is near the downstream end of the center body. Annular-type guide vanes surround the center body within the de-swirl passageway. A wastegate system is configured to vent wastegate flow into the diffuser through injection ports on the de-swirl vanes, annular guide vanes and/or center body.
1. A turbocharger turbine, comprising:
a turbine wheel;
a housing having housing walls that define a turbine passageway extending axially, the passageway including a wheel chamber containing the turbine wheel, the wheel chamber extending downstream from an inducer to an exducer of the turbine wheel, and an outlet passage extending downstream from the exducer and defining a region of exducer flow, wherein the housing walls include an outlet passage wall surrounding the outlet passage;
a wastegate system having a controllable valve that controllably places the outlet passage in fluid communication with an inlet flow upstream of the inducer via a wastegate exhaust port; and
an injection body within the outlet passage, the injection body having an injection body hollow interior in direct fluid communication with the exhaust flow from the wastegate exhaust port;
wherein the injection body includes one or more injection ports placing the injection body hollow interior in fluid communication with the outlet passage within the exducer flow.
2. The turbocharger turbine of claim 1 , wherein the injection body includes one or more injection body supports connecting directly to the outlet passage wall, each injection body support defining an injection body support hollow interior that is part of the injection body hollow interior, and that is in direct fluid communication with the wastegate exhaust port via the outlet passage wall.
3. The turbocharger turbine of claim 2 , wherein the one or more injection body supports have outer surfaces that form de-swirl vanes.
4. The turbocharger turbine of claim 2 , wherein the injection body includes an injection center body defining a center body hollow interior that is in direct fluid communication with the injection body support hollow interior of the one or more injection body supports, wherein the center body hollow interior and the injection body support hollow interior combine to form the injection body hollow interior, wherein the injection center body is structurally supported by the one or more injection body supports.
5. The turbocharger turbine of claim 4 , wherein at least some of the one or more injection ports are formed on the injection center body.
6. The turbocharger turbine of claim 4 , wherein all of the one or more injection ports are formed on the injection center body.
7. The turbocharger turbine of claim 4 , wherein the injection body includes an injection annular guide vane defining a hollow interior that is in direct fluid communication with the hollow interior of the one or more injection body supports, the injection annular guide vane being structurally supported by the one or more injection body supports.
8. The turbocharger turbine of claim 2 , wherein the injection body includes an injection annular guide vane defining a hollow interior that is in direct fluid communication with the hollow interior of the one or more injection body supports, the injection annular guide vane being structurally supported by the one or more injection body supports.