Abstract:
The apparatus obtains a decreasing gradient of the maximum oxygen storing quantity Cmax with respect to the increase in an air flow rate Ga on the basis of two maximum oxygen storing quantities Cmax, which are respectively estimated in case where the air flow rate Ga assumes two different values, and the two values of the air flow rate Ga. As the deterioration degree of the catalyst unit 53 increases, the decreasing gradient increases. When the deterioration degree of the catalyst unit 53 is the same, the decreasing gradient tends to be the same, even if the degree of the response of the change in the output from a downstream air-fuel-ratio sensor 67 varies. Accordingly, the obtained decreasing gradient can be a value correctly indicating the deterioration degree of the catalyst unit 53.
Abstract:
There is provided an NOx sensor trouble diagnosis device and an NOx trouble diagnosis method that can perform trouble diagnosis on a timely basis without intentionally creating any diagnosis mode during operation of an internal combustion engine and without deterioration of drivability and fuel consumption.The device includes an exhaust NOx flow rate calculating and storing means for calculating and storing an exhaust NOx flow rate discharged from an internal combustion engine per unit time, detected NOx concentration storing means for storing a detected NOx concentration detected by an NOx sensor, and trouble determining means for defining a reference pattern as a time-lapse variation reference of the exhaust NOx flow rate and a follow pattern as a time-lapse variation reference of the detected NOx concentration detected by the NOx sensor, and determining whether the detected NOx concentration undergoes a transition while having a predetermined relation with the follow pattern when the exhaust NOx flow rate undergoes a transition while having a predetermined relation with the reference pattern in a case where the internal combustion engine is in a normal operation mode, thereby determining the responsiveness of the NOx sensor.
Abstract:
A system, method, and software that rapidly heats a diesel oxidation catalyst unit to an effective operating temperature at engine startup is disclosed. Upon ignition of an engine an electronic control unit is operable to lower a fresh air flow target value to a reduced fresh air flow target value as well as lower a valve opening limit of an exhaust gas recirculation valve to a reduced valve opening limit. The electronic control unit monitors a temperature value of a flow of exhaust entering the diesel oxidation catalyst unit until the temperature value reaches a first predetermined threshold value. After reaching the first predetermined threshold value, the electronic control unit causes the fuel system to set post-injection fueling to a predetermined post-injection fueling value until the temperature value of the flow of exhaust entering the diesel oxidation catalyst unit reaches a second predetermined threshold value.
Abstract:
An SOx trap catalyst able to trap SOx contained in the exhaust gas is arranged in an engine exhaust passage upstream of an NOx storing catalyst in an internal combustion engine. When the SOx trap rate of the SOx trap catalyst falls, fuel is added in the exhaust gas flowing into the SOx trap catalyst to form in the SOx trap catalyst a region in which an air-fuel ratio becomes locally rich. SOx released from the SOx trap catalyst in this region can be trapped in the SOx trap catalyst at the downstream side once again without flowing out from the downstream end of the SOx trap catalyst.
Abstract:
A method of dosing a reagent into an exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine having an SCR catalyst, the method comprising injecting reagent from a reagent tank into the exhaust gas stream at a position upstream of the SCR catalyst using a reagent injector in accordance with a first dosing schedule in order to remediate a predetermined proportion of NOx in the exhaust gas stream, the first dosing schedule being associated with a first range of engine operating conditions; and injecting reagent from the reagent tank into the exhaust gas stream at a position upstream of the SCR catalyst using a reagent injector in accordance with a second dosing schedule in order to enable heat transfer between the reagent injector and said injected reagent, the second dosing schedule being associated with a second range of engine operating conditions.Dosing in accordance with said first or said second dosing schedule is carried out in dependence on whether engine operating conditions lie within said first or said second range of engine operating conditions, and the proportion of NOx in the exhaust gas stream which is remediated by dosing using said second dosing schedule is less than said predetermined portion. A reagent dosing system is also provided for dosing a reagent into the exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine, comprising a reagent tank for storing a supply of reagent, an injector module comprising an atomising dispenser and a positive-displacement metering pump which draws reagent from the reagent tank and delivers it to the dispenser a supply line coupling the reagent tank to the injector module, and a dosing control unit operable to control the injector module to inject reagent into the exhaust gas stream. A priming pump is provided to urge reagent along the supply line toward the injector module under selected conditions.
Abstract:
Systems and methods of performing a simplified data transfer are provided. For example, a simplified data transfer system may include two or more devices configured to perform a simplified data transfer. The first device may be configured to save and transfer data associated with applications open on the first device. When the second device initiates communication, the first device may automatically send the open application data to the second device.
Abstract:
A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit having one end face and another end face opposite to the one end face along a longitudinal direction of the at least one honeycomb unit. The at least one honeycomb unit includes an inorganic binder, inorganic particles, cell walls extending along the longitudinal direction from one end face to the another end face to define plural cells, and third material provided on the cell walls. The inorganic particles include first and second materials. The first material includes NOx adsorption material. The second material includes ammonia adsorption material.
Abstract:
The invention proposes an engine (11) comprising a catalytic converter (12c), a first probe (120) able to deliver a first signal (Vsp) proportional to the oxygen content of an exhaust gas and installed upstream of the converter, a second oxygen probe (130) downstream of the converter and able to provide a second signal (Vsb), and means (13) for making a diagnosis regarding the operating condition of the converter, characterized in that: the second oxygen probe (130) is of the on/off type and the means (13) are designed to convert the first signal (Vsp) into a third signal (Vspb) of the on/off type and to make the diagnosis on the basis of the second and third signals (Vsb, Vspb).
Abstract:
Nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converters for purifying the exhaust gas of lean-burn engines are periodically regenerated by switching the engine from lean-burn mode to rich-burn mode. After regeneration has taken place, the engine is switched back to lean-burn mode. At this time, rich exhaust gas is still flowing in the exhaust line from the engine to the catalytic converter, which rich exhaust gas is ejected via the catalytic converter into the environment by the following, lean exhaust gas. This leads to brief emissions peaks of the rich exhaust gas constituents and impairs the level of exhaust gas cleaning which can be obtained. In order to solve said problem, it is proposed to create oxidizing conditions by injecting air upstream of the storage catalytic converter, so that the rich exhaust gas constituents still flowing in the exhaust line upstream of the storage catalytic converter can be converted at the storage catalytic converter to form non-harmful products. The proposed method can lead to a considerable improvement in exhaust gas purification in particular in the case of catalytic converters which are already impaired in terms of their storage capacity through aging, and which must be regenerated significantly more frequently than fresh catalytic converters.
Abstract:
An exhaust gas purification apparatus which is installed in a flow channel of an exhaust gas discharged from an engine, includes: a first purification device that purifies one component contained in the gas; a heating device that heats the purification device to a predetermined temperature in a period from before the engine is started to a first point in time that is after the engine is started; control device that controls an air-fuel ratio of the gas so as to obtain a air-fuel ratio suitable for purifying the one component in a period from the time when the engine is started to a point in time that is on or after a time at which the purification device is heated to the predetermined temperature; and an adsorption device that communicates with the downstream of the first purification device and adsorbs another component contained in the gas.