Robert Boschgmbh

Andreas Genssle

Tobias Pfister

Norbert Breuer

Peter Riegger

Thorsten Raatz

Ralf Wegst

Torsten Handler

Enno Baars

Markus Hernier

Stefan Woerz

Frank Ilgner

Markus Gloeckle

Michael Kolitsch

Thomas Hauber

Markus Eitel

Franz-Josef Trompeter

The invention relates to a method for monitoring a sensor unit () that is arranged in the exhaust gas region of an internal combustion engine (). According to the invention, a sensor temperature () is directly or indirectly determined by the sensor unit (), and is compared to an exhaust temperature () that is determined by a further sensor unit and/or to model variables and/or to defined threshold values, whereby a dismounting and/or an inappropriate mounting of the sensor unit is indicated. The invention further relates to a device for monitoring a sensor unit () arranged in an exhaust region of an internal combustion engine (), the sensor unit being used to directly or indirectly determine a sensor temperature () which can be compared to an exhaust temperature () that is determined by a further sensor unit and/or to model variables and/or to defined threshold values in an engine control unit (), wherein a malfunction entry and/or a warning signal can be derived from said comparison.

Method and device for monitoring a component arranged in an exhaust region of an internal combustion engine

A method for acquiring information from a driving operation of a vehicle, in which first information is acquired with respect to at least one operating state of the vehicle and additional second information is ascertained with respect to this at least one operating state using statistical methods, the first and second information concerning this at least one operating state being stored. A method for the assigning and diagnosis of at least one operating state of a vehicle, a control unit, a computer program and a computer-program product are also provided.

Method for acquiring information

A method for monitoring the capability of a catalytic converter to convert nitrogen monoxide into nitrogen dioxide in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, the catalytic converter being arranged in an exhaust gas duct of the internal combustion engine and the catalytic converter being followed downstream by a collecting particle sensor. It is in this case provided that, in a monitoring cycle, a decrease in the particle loading of the particle sensor during the operation of the internal combustion engine under predetermined operating conditions is taken to conclude an adequate capability of the catalytic converter to convert from nitrogen monoxide to nitrogen dioxide.

Method for monitoring a catalytic converter

Devices and methods for the production of ammonia as a reducing agent for the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas of a combustion source, especially of an internal combustion engine. The ammonia is admixed with the exhaust gas in the direction of flow in front of a SCR-catalytic converter. In so doing, nitrogen oxide is produced in a nitrogen oxide production unit separated from the combustion source and its exhaust gas duct and is stored in at least one storage catalytic converter or a nitrogen oxide storage and a subsequently connected catalytic converter. Furthermore, hydrogen and/or a hydrogen-carbon monoxide-mixture is produced in a hydrogen production unit separated from the combustion source and its exhaust gas duct and delivered to a storage catalytic converter. Hydrogen and the stored nitrogen oxide are converted catalytically to ammonia in the storage catalytic converter or in the catalytic converter.

Device and procedure for the production of ammonia

The invention relates to a procedure for controlling the reducing agent in an exhaust gas post-processing system of a combustion machine with an exhaust gas duct, in which an SCR catalytic converter is provided in the direction of flow of the exhaust, wherein a reducing agent generation system has an NOand CO/Hgeneration unit,, an oxidation catalytic converter and a combined NOstorage / ammonia generation unit in the standard gas route of the reducing agent generation system, and, in order to reduce nitrogen oxide, ammonia is added as a reducing agent in front of the SCR catalytic converter by the reducing agent generation system, wherein source materials for the generation of ammonia are at least intermittently added to the NOand CO/Hgeneration unit via a fuel supply line and via an air supply line, wherein during the fat phase the air/fuel composition is changed in front of the oxidation catalytic converter in the form of a lambda modulation for a lambda value. It can thus be achieved that, in pulse mode, a high H/CO yield can be achieved with a simultaneously low HC slip and the higher HC penetrations associated with the natural aging of the catalytic converter and the decreasing H/CO yields are compensated. Influences resulting from the reactor geometry of the oxidation catalytic converter can be influences or compensated with the procedure in terms of its drive-away characteristic.

Procedure for controlling the reducing agent in an exhaust gas post-processing system

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Andreas Genssle