Volkswagen Ag

Thomas Maischik

Asmus Carstensen

Artur Semke

Thomas Schulenburg

André Horn

Michael Kaack

Andreas Herr

Marcus Dallmann

Stefan Paukner

Falk-Christian Baron Von Ceumern-Lindenstjerna

Uwe Kammann

Christoph Käppner

Hardy Naumann

Bernd Hupfeld

Jörg Fritzsche

Jörg Volkmann

Holger Lange

An exhaust gas heat recovery system for an internal combustion engine has a pump for conveying an operating fluid, an evaporator for converting the operating fluid from the liquid state to the gaseous state, and a condenser for liquefaction of the operating fluid, and having an expansion engine through which the gaseous operating fluid can flow. A sensor is arranged on the expansion engine with which a function of the expansion engine can be monitored. An exhaust system may have such an exhaust gas heat recovery system, and a method for the diagnosis of such an exhaust heat recovery system.

Exhaust gas heat recovery system and exhaust system

The invention relates to method for operating an internal combustion engine that has at least two combustion chambers, of which at least one is operated at a substoichiometric air-fuel ratio and of which at least another is operated at a superstoichiometric air-fuel ratio. The outlet of the internal combustion engine is connected to an exhaust gas system in which a three-way catalytic converter is arranged in the flow direction of an exhaust gas through an exhaust gas channel, and an exhaust gas heat-recovery device is arranged downstream from the three-way catalytic converter. It is provided for the unburned fuel components of the combustion chamber that is operated at a substoichiometric air-fuel ratio to be exothermally reacted with the residual oxygen from the combustion chamber that is operated at a superstoichiometric air-fuel ratio on the three-way catalytic converter, whereby the exhaust gas temperature is raised so that the exhaust gas heat-recovery device can recover a portion of the exhaust gas enthalpy downstream from the three-way catalytic converter.

Method for operating an internal combustion engine as well as internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine having at least one combustion chamber, the internal combustion engine being connected via the exhaust thereof with an exhaust system. Disposed in the exhaust system is a heat exchanger of an exhaust heat recovery system, which can be used to transfer the waste heat of the exhaust gas to an operating fluid of the exhaust heat recovery system. Furthermore, the internal combustion engine is couplable to an air-conditioning compressor of an air-conditioning circuit. The exhaust heat recovery system has a further heat exchanger, in which the waste heat of a compressed refrigerant of the air-conditioning circuit is transferred to the operating fluid of the exhaust heat recovery system. A method for recovering the exhaust heat from such an internal combustion engine, an operating fluid of the exhaust heat recovery system being heated in a first method step by the waste heat of a compressed refrigerant of the air-conditioning circuit and, in a second method step, by the waste heat of the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine.

Internal combustion engine having an exhaust heat recovery system as well as a method for recovering exhaust heat

An axial piston motor having a cylinder housing, in which a plurality of cylinders are formed, and having pistons which are movably guided in the cylinders, wherein the pistons are attached to a swash plate and wherein a flow of a fluid that has entered via an inlet into the axial piston motor is controlled into and out of the cylinders by means of inlet and outlet valves, wherein the inlet and/or outlet valves comprise fluid change openings which are formed in a cylinder head plate and which can be temporarily released and covered by means of a rotary slide, for which purpose the rotary slide forms at least one passage opening.

Axial-piston motor and cyclic process device

A heat exchange device having a first media channel for a first medium and a second media channel for a second medium is further refined in that, in at least one section of the heat exchange device, a third media channel for a transfer medium is arranged between the first media channel and the second media channel, so that the heat transfer from the first medium to the second medium takes place via the transfer medium.

Heat exchange device and drive unit for a motor vehicle

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Thomas Maischik