Patent ID: 8869516

Claim:
A machine, comprising: a machine frame; an internal combustion engine disposed within an engine compartment and supported on the machine frame; an exhaust stack having an inlet fluidly connected to an exhaust manifold of the internal combustion engine and an outlet in fluid communication with ambient air, wherein a diesel particulate filter is disposed along the exhaust stack; and a cooling package including at least one heat exchanger and a blower fan, wherein the blower fan, which has a predominantly vertical central axis relative to the machine frame, is configured to pull cooling air around the internal combustion engine and blow the cooling air from the engine compartment sequentially through the at least one heat exchanger and an outlet of the cooling package; wherein exhaust gas exiting the exhaust stack outlet is mixed with the cooling air exiting the cooling package outlet in a high temperature zone surrounding the exhaust stack outlet to form a fluid mixture, and a temperature of the fluid mixture at a perimeter of the high temperature zone is below 200 degrees Celsius.