A base filter for a diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) filter of a header assembly in a fluid reservoir is disclosed may include first and second semi-cylindrical holder portions having a semi-cylindrical walls concluding at abutment surfaces that face and engage when the base filter is assembled. The semi-cylindrical holder portions have one or more mounting tabs extending inward from inner surfaces of the semi-cylindrical walls. The header assembly may include a header with a cylindrical header boss having mounting recess defined therein. The mounting tabs may be circumferentially spaced about the semi-cylindrical walls to align with and be inserted into the mounting recesses of the header boss the base filter is assembled on the cylindrical header boss. Fasteners may be inserted through fastener bosses of the semi-cylindrical holder portions and into fastener bores of the header boss to hold the semi-cylindrical holder portions together and on the header.

The device for injecting a fluid into an exhaust pipe comprises a fluid reservoir, an enclosure delimiting a fluid heating chamber, and a first injection system configured to inject the fluid from the reservoir into the heating chamber. At least one heating element extends at least partially into the heating chamber and is intended to be in contact with the fluid, with the at least one heating element being configured to heat the fluid. A second injection system is configured to inject the heated fluid from the heating chamber into the exhaust pipe.

Methods and systems are provided for estimation of a volume of liquid diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) contained within a DEF tank. In one example, a method for the estimation of the volume of liquid DEF in a DEF tank during DEF freezing conditions may include activating a heater contained within the DEF tank, and then switching estimation of the volume of liquid DEF via a first transfer function to estimation of the volume of liquid DEF via a second transfer function.

An automotive exhaust aftertreatment system includes a doser. The doser includes a doser body and a valve system that opens to discharge a reagent into exhaust gas. The doser includes a heater to heat the reagent prior to releasing the reagent into the exhaust gas.

A fluid tank thaw system that includes a fluid tank that receives a first fluid. A heating element within the fluid tank that heats the first fluid. A magnetic stir system that stirs the first fluid within the fluid tank to increase a thaw rate of the first fluid. The magnetic stir system includes a magnetic stirrer within the fluid tank. The magnetic stirrer rotates within the fluid tank to agitate the first fluid. An electric coil changes polarity to rotate the magnetic stirrer.

Disclosed is a method for preventing a risk of freezing in a device for supplying reducing agent to a selective catalytic reduction system in an exhaust line, a freezing temperature specific to the agent being stored in memory, the system including a controller operating the system and emitting pulses to an injector, the controller being inactive when the engine is switched off. With the combustion engine switched off, the controller is woken up at predetermined intervals to initiate an emission of a specific electric pulse to the injector with measurements of a current-strength and voltage of the electric pulse providing a value of the electrical resistance of the injector. A temperature of the reducing agent at the injector is estimated as a function of the measured resistance and, when at least the temperature thus estimated is below the freezing temperature, a purge of the device is initiated.

An electric heater (1, 1′) for heating a substance inside a tank (100), the electric heater (1, 1′) comprising: at least one resistive wire (4) adapted to be connected to a source of electricity, said at least one resistive wire (4) being provided with a sheath (41) made of electrically insulating material; at least a first thermally conductive sheet (5) made of metal fixed to the at least one resistive wire (4); at least two protective layers (2, 3) made of polymer material, fixed to each other; wherein the at least one resistive wire (4) and the at least a first sheet (5) are arranged between the at least two protective layers (2, 3).

An electric heater (1), in particular for heating, in particular thawing, an aqueous solution comprising urea inside a tank (100) to save fuel and abate pollution of a motor vehicle, the electric heater (1) comprising—a thermally conductive body (20), provided with a wall (23) which at least partially extends about an axis (Z), comprising two opposite faces (21, 22); a plurality of fins (24, 25) which extend transversally from at least a first face (21) of said two faces (21, 22); at least one heating element (40), adapted to be connected to a source of electricity to generate heat, comprising a stretch (41) arranged inside the wall (23), which extends along the wall (23), whereby the heat generated by the at least one heating element (40) can be transmitted to the body (20) and to the substance to be heated.

An injector comprises at least one injection nozzle, a dosing system to provide a dosed flow of reducing agent to the at least one or each injection nozzle, and an injection line fluidically connecting the dosing system to the at least one or each injection nozzle. The injection line comprises an upstream pipe fluidically connected to the dosing system, at least one downstream pipe fluidically connected to a respective injection nozzle, and at least one anti-backflow device to avoid or minimize fluidic flow from the at least one or each downstream pipe toward the upstream pipe.

Arrangement (100) for an exhaust gas aftertreatment system (102), comprising a tank (104) for storing a reducing agent (106); a pump unit arrangement (108) arranged in downstream fluid communication with the tank; a nozzle (110) arranged to inject a flow of reducing agent into the exhaust gas aftertreatment system (102), the nozzle being arranged in downstream fluid communication with the tank, via the pump unit arrangement, by means of a reducing agent conduit (112); an air conduit (114) arranged in fluid communication with the nozzle (110) for delivery of compressed air to the nozzle; and a return conduit (116) arranged in fluid communication between the reducing agent conduit and the tank, the return conduit comprising a return conduit valve arrangement (118), wherein the air conduit (114) is arranged in fluid communication with the reducing agent conduit (112) for controllably delivery of reducing agent to the tank via the return conduit valve arrangement (118) by means of providing compressed air from the air conduit to the reducing agent conduit.