Method for operating a nitrogen oxide storage-type catalytic...

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2006-10-31

2006-10-31

Tran, Binh Q. (Department: 3748)

Power plants

Internal combustion engine with treatment or handling of...

By means producing a chemical reaction of a component of the...

C060S274000, C060S276000, C060S297000, C060S301000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07127881

ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a process for operating a nitrogen oxide storage-type catalytic converter of an internal combustion engine, particularly of a motor vehicle, in which the nitrogen oxides which have been produced by the internal combustion engine are stored in the storage catalytic converter in the first operating phase (lean phase) as a storage phase for a specific storage time, and in which, after expiration of the storage time at a specific switching instant for a specific discharge time, switching to the second operating phase as the discharge phase takes place, in which the nitrogen oxides which were stored during the storage time are discharged from the storage catalytic converter, the switching instant in the storage phase being determined as a function of the nitrogen oxide slip as the difference between the nitrogen oxide mass flow which has flowed into the storage catalytic converter and the nitrogen oxide mass flow which has flowed out of the nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter, each relative to the storage time. As claimed in the invention, to establish the switching instant from the storage phase to the discharge phase, the relative nitrogen oxide slip is determined such that the nitrogen oxide mass flow upstream of the nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter and the nitrogen oxide mass flow downstream of the nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter are each integrated over the time interval of the lean phase and the quotient of the integral values are brought into a relative relationship with a definable degree of conversion of the nitrogen oxide which can be derived from the exhaust gas boundary value, such that when this predetermined switching condition is present, switching from the storage phase to the discharge phase is carried out. In this way the fuel consumption can be reduced especially for a new storage catalytic converter using the full storage potential.

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