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(Component Description For Nox Sensor Control Unit - GF14.40-P-3024OLG)

ENGINE 642.826, 651.960 in MODEL 166 up to model year 2016 

with CODE U42 (BlueTEC diesel exhaust treatment (SCR)) 

View of exhaust system 

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Location 

The NOx sensor downstream of the diesel particulate filter is located in the exhaust pipe downstream of the diesel particulate filter (DPF) and the NOx sensor downstream of the SCR catalytic converter is located in the exhaust pipe downstream of the SCR catalytic converter. The NOx sensors control units are located respectively on the underfloor.

Task 

The NOx sensors control units are supplied by the company "VDO Automotive AG".

The NOx sensors detect the NOx and the O2 concentration in the exhaust downstream of the DPF and the SCR catalytic converter and pass this information onto the NOx sensors control units in the form of voltage pulses. These control units process the information and transmit it via the drive train sensor CAN (CAN I) to the CDI control unit (N3/9).

Input and output signals 

The NOx sensors control units evaluate the following input signals and send the corresponding output signals:

Body 

Every NOx sensor (double chamber sensor with evaluation circuit) is inseparably connected via an 8-pin signal line with the respective NOx sensor control unit.

An integral sensor heater which is controlled by the respective NOx sensor control unit ensures rapid readiness to operate of the NOx sensors.

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Function 

The active ceramic probe bodies consist of many layers with two reaction chambers. The oxygen (O2 ) in the exhaust is detected in the first chamber, as in an oxygen sensor.

To do this, a pump voltage is applied to the electrodes in the first chamber. This causes the O2 molecules to be split into double charged oxygen ions and then pumped out of or into the first chamber (depending on whether rich or lean exhaust gas is present) until a 450 mV voltage difference at the electrodes is reached. The oxygen concentration is calculated from the size of the required pump current "Ip1".

The nitrogen oxide is split at the ground electrode into nitrogen and oxygen in the second chamber if present.

The oxygen is pumped out if the chamber again.

The concentration of the nitrogen oxides in the exhaust is calculated from the resulting pump current "Ip2".

The voltage signals from NOx sensors are transmitted to the respective NOx sensor control unit and processed there. The NOx sensor control units send the NOx and the O2 concentration to the CDI control unit via drive train sensor CAN.

Schematic function diagram of the NOx sensor (double chamber sensors) 

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