摘要:
An exhaust system for a lean burn internal combustion engine comprises: (a) a catalysed soot filter (CSF) (32); (b) a control unit (38); (c) means (18), controllable by the control unit, for 5 increasing a content of combustible hydrocarbon (HC) and/or carbon monoxide (CO) in an exhaust gas flowing into the CSF thereby to combust the HC and/or CO in the CSF, to increase the temperature of the CSF and to combust particulate matter collected thereon; and (d) catalysed sensor means (36) disposed between an engine manifold (28) and the CSF for combusting CO and/or HC in exhaust gas flowing in the exhaust system and inputting the control unit wit h a 10 datum correlat ing with an enthalpy of combustion of HC and/or CO in the exhaust gas, whereby the control unit, when in use, controls the combustible HC and/or CO introducing means in response to the datum input thereby to control the rate of contacting the CSF with combustible HC and/or CO.
摘要:
Disclosed are a method for operating a hybrid vehicle, in which a predefined setpoint torque (mifa) is cumulatively generated by at least one internal combustion engine (10) and at least one electric motor (40), and a device for carrying out said method. According to the invention, the torque contribution (MdB) of the internal combustion engine (10) is defined in accordance with at least one exhaust gas parameter (NOx, HC, CO, particles, Tabg) in a first step while the torque contribution (MdE) of the electric motor (40) is defined in a second step based on the difference (dM) between the setpoint torque (mifa) and the torque contribution of the internal combustion engine (10) defined in the first step. The inventive method allows the internal combustion engine to be operated in an optimal fashion regarding emissions.
摘要:
The characteristics of an output of an exhaust gas sensor (5) with respect to an air-fuel ratio of an engine (1) are expressed according to a quadratic function, and the parameters of the quadratic function are sequentially identified according to a sequential identifying algorithm using data of the output of the exhaust gas sensor and data of an output of an air-fuel sensor (4) which detects the air-fuel ratio of the engine. Deterioration evaluating parameters whose values change as the deterioration of a catalytic converter processes are sequentially determined from the identified values of the parameters of the quadratic function, and the deteriorated state of the catalytic converter (3) is evaluated based on the determined deterioration evaluating parameters.
摘要:
A system for measuring the non-methane HC concentration of gas sample, e.g., automotive exhaust gas, comprising first and second catalytic differential calorimetric sensors. The first catalytic differential calorimetric sensor is capable of producing a first output signal representative of the exothermic effect of the oxidation of the predominate oxidizable species (CO+H 2 + non-methane HC combination) in the gas sample. The second catalytic differential calorimetric sensor is capable of producing a second output signal representative of the exothermic effect of the combined oxidation of the CO+H 2 +alkene hydrocarbon species in the gas sample. Lastly, the system includes a means for comparing the first output signal with the second output signal, thereby indicating the total concentration of unburned aromatic and alkane hydrocarbon species in the gas sample which directly correlates to the total non-methane HC concentration. A method carried out by the system comprises the following steps: (a) contacting a first portion of an exhaust gas with a sensor and producing an output signal representative of the concentration of the predominate (CO+H 2 +non-methane HC species) oxidizable species in the exhaust gas; (b) contacting a second portion of the exhaust gas with a second sensor and producing a second output signal representative of the combined concentration of CO+H 2 +alkene hydrocarbon species in the second exhaust gas portion; and (c) determining the aromatic and alkane hydrocarbon species concentration, and thus the total non-methane HC concentration, of the exhaust gas by comparing the first output signal with the second output signal.
摘要:
A method for diagnosing the degree of deterioration of a catalyst disposed in an exhaust path of an internal combustion engine and oxidizing or adsorbing a target gas, including at least one of a hydrocarbon gas and a carbon monoxide gas in an exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine, is adapted to determine whether deterioration exceeding an acceptable level of a catalyst occurs or not by comparing the concentration of a target gas detected downstream from the catalyst in the exhaust path when a diagnosis-gas atmosphere containing a target gas higher in concentration than a target gas during a steady-operation state of the internal combustion engine is intentionally produced and introduced into the catalyst with a threshold value corresponding to the temperature of a catalyst at the timing which the diagnosis-gas atmosphere is introduced.
摘要:
A system for diagnosing the degree of deterioration of a catalyst disposed in an exhaust path of an internal combustion engine and oxidizing or adsorbing a target gas in an exhaust gas, includes a temperature sensor measuring a temperature of the exhaust gas upstream from said catalyst in said exhaust path and a gas sensor detecting a target gas downstream from said catalyst and outputting an output value in accordance with a concentration of the target gas, wherein a control element is configured to diagnose the degree of deterioration in the catalyst, based on at least the output value in the gas sensor, the temperature of the catalyst identified based on a measurement value in the temperature sensor, and a threshold value at the temperature of the catalyst.
摘要:
An on-board diagnostics system for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The system comprises a catalyzed substrate having a catalyzed region and an uncatalyzed region, a first sensor, and a second sensor. The first sensor is located within the catalyzed region of the catalyzed substrate and the second sensor is located within the uncatalyzed region of the catalyzed substrate. A method for on-board diagnostics of the catalyzed substrate is also disclosed.
摘要:
A method for diagnosing the degree of deterioration of a catalyst disposed in an exhaust path of an internal combustion engine and oxidizing or adsorbing a target gas, including at least one of a hydrocarbon gas and a carbon monoxide gas in an exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine, is adapted to determine whether deterioration exceeding an acceptable level of a catalyst occurs or not by comparing the concentration of a target gas detected downstream from the catalyst in the exhaust path when a diagnosis-gas atmosphere containing a target gas higher in concentration than a target gas during a steady-operation state of the internal combustion engine is intentionally produced and introduced into the catalyst with a threshold value corresponding to the temperature of a catalyst at the timing which the diagnosis-gas atmosphere is introduced.