Abstract:
An internal combustion engine which is provided with a hydrocarbon feed valve (15) arranged in an engine exhaust passage. When injection control for injecting hydrocarbons from the hydrocarbon feed valve (15) for exhaust treatment is stopped, to prevent the hydrocarbon feed valve (15) from clogging, hydrocarbons for preventing clogging are injected from the hydrocarbon feed valve (15) when the engine is not discharging soot, that is, when the feed of fuel to the inside of the combustion chamber (2) is stopped and, after hydrocarbons for preventing clogging are injected once, the injection of hydrocarbons for preventing clogging from the hydrocarbon feed valve (15) is stopped until injection control for exhaust treatment is started.
Abstract:
A particulate filter (23) for trapping the particulate matter which is contained in the exhaust gas is provided inside an engine exhaust passage. Additional fuel is secondarily injected from a fuel injector (3) in an engine expansion stroke or exhaust stroke or hydrocarbons are secondarily added from an addition valve (24) which is provided upstream of the particulate filter in the exhaust pipe (21). An amount of hydrocarbons which come from the fuel injector (3) or addition valve (24) and then adhere in the form of a liquid to the inflow end of the particulate filter, and an amount of particulate matter which reaches the inflow end of the particulate filter are respectively estimated. A degree of clogging at the inflow end of the particulate filter is estimated based on the amount of hydrocarbons and the amount of particulate matter.
Abstract:
A rotor core heating device (100) is configured to heat an inner peripheral side surface and an outer peripheral side surface of a rotor core (150) through induction heating. The rotor core has a hollow cylindrical shape. The rotor core heating device includes a first coil (110), a second coil (120) and a magnetic flux shielding jig (170). The first coil is disposed inside the rotor core and is configured to heat the inner peripheral side surface of the rotor core through induction heating. The second coil is disposed outside the rotor core and is configured to heat the outer peripheral side surface of the rotor core through induction heating. The magnetic flux shielding jig has a hollow cylindrical shape and is disposed opposite a first end surface of the rotor core with a gap provided between the first end surface and the magnetic flux shielding jig in an axial direction of the rotor core.
Abstract:
A fuel addition valve (14) that adds fuel into the exhaust gas passage of the engine in the form of fine fuel droplets, an upstream NOx adsorption-reduction catalyst (12), and a downstream NOx adsorption-reduction catalyst (13) are arranged in this order. Platinum Pt and palladium Pd, as noble metal, are supported on the downstream NOx adsorption-reduction NOx catalyst (13) such that the ratio of the mole number of the platinum Pt to the sum of the mole numbers of the platinum Pt and the palladium Pd is approx. 50% to approx. 80%. Only platinum Pt is supported on the upstream NOx adsorption-reduction catalyst (12). According to this structure, even when liquid fuel is supplied into exhaust gas, NOx can be effectively released from the NOx adsorption-reduction catalyst, and further the amount of NOx that the NOx adsorption-reduction catalyst can adsorb at a low temperature increases.
Abstract:
Engine air-fuel ratio controlling means is provided to control an exhaust air-fuel ratio that is the ratio between the air contained in the exhaust gas discharged from the engine (1) and the fuel element contained in the same exhaust gas and acting as a reducing agent at a NOx catalyst by controlling the air- fuel ratio of the gas combusted in the engine (1). Fuel adding means (17) is provided upstream of the NOx catalyst (9) in an exhaust passage to add fuel into the exhaust gas. During the SOx poisoning recovery control, when developing a state enabling SOx reduction reactions, the exhaust gas air- fuel ratio of the exhaust gas discharged from the engine and the amount of fuel added from the fuel adding means (17) are controlled to minimize the sum of the amount of fuel injected in the engine and the amount of fuel added from the fuel adding means.
Abstract:
The invention provides a technology that enables to prevent sulfur components contained in reducing agent added from flowing into an NOx catalyst thereby keeping a high NOx removing rate. An S-trapping catalyst 11 for trapping sulfur components contained in exhaust gas discharged from an internal combustion engine 1, an S-trapping catalyst 12 for trapping sulfur components contained in reducing agent added to the exhaust gas from which sulfur components have been trapped by the S-trapping catalyst 11 are provided, thereby preventing an NOx catalyst 14 from being poisoned by sulfur.
Abstract:
In an internal combustion engine, a hydrocarbon feed valve (15) and an exhaust purification catalyst (13) are arranged in an engine exhaust passage. A first NO x removal method which reduces NO x contained in an exhaust gas by a reducing intermediate which is generated by injecting hydrocarbons from the hydrocarbon feed valve (15) within a predetermined range of period and a second NO x removal method in which an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is made rich by a period which is longer than this predetermined range are used. The switching temperatures ST and ST o of the exhaust purification catalyst (13) at which temperature an NO x removal method is switched from the second NO x removal method to the first NO x removal method, are made lower if the amount of NO x in the exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) increases.
Abstract:
In an internal combustion engine, a hydrocarbon feed valve (15) and an exhaust purification catalyst (13) are arranged in an engine exhaust passage. When releasing the stored NO X from the exhaust purification catalyst (13), usually combustion gas of a rich air-fuel ratio is generated in the combustion chamber (2) to make the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) rich. When releasing the stored NO X from the exhaust purification catalyst (13) in case where the temperature of the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is low, the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is made rich by injecting hydrocarbons from the hydrocarbon feed valve (15).
Abstract:
In an internal combustion engine, a hydrocarbon feed valve (15) and an exhaust purification catalyst (13) are arranged in an engine exhaust passage. A first NO X removal method which injects hydrocarbons from the hydrocarbon feed valve (15) within a predetermined range of period so that the reducing intermediate generated thereby reduces the NO X contained in the exhaust gas and a second NO X removal method which makes the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) a first target rich air-fuel ratio by a period which is longer than this predetermined range are used. When the NO X removal method is switched from the second NO X removal method to the first NO X removal method, the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is made a second target air-fuel ratio which is smaller than the first target rich air-fuel ratio.
Abstract:
An exhaust gas purification device includes an SOx trap catalyst that is disposed in an exhaust passage upstream of an NOx occlusion/reduction catalyst and that suppress occlusion of SOx by the NOx occlusion/reduction catalyst. The exhaust gas purification device further includes a selective reduction catalyst that selectively reduces NOx using ammonia, disposed downstream of the NOx occlusion/reduction catalyst, and a control unit. When an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into the SOx trap catalyst is lean, the control unit executes a exhaust gas purification control to temporarily make an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into the NOx occlusion/reduction catalyst rich to reduce NOx occluded by the NOx occlusion/reduction catalyst and generate ammonia, whereby the ammonia produced as a result of the exhaust gas purification control is used by the selective reduction catalyst to reduce NOx.