Volkswagen Ag

Uwe Scher

Jens Jeschke

Axel Groenendijk

Thomas Lang

Werner Aberle

Dieter Mannigel

Hans-Georg Nitzke

Achim Freitag

Jörn Müller

Lothar Nee

Jörg Larink

Jürgen Wendt

Jorn Kahrstedt

An internal combustion engine has a high-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line and a low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line with a low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation valve. The low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line branches off from the exhaust-gas system downstream of a turbine of an exhaust-gas turbocharger and opens into a fresh-air system upstream of a compressor of the exhaust-gas turbocharger. An exhaust-gas flap is disposed in the exhaust-gas system downstream from where the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line branches off from the exhaust-gas system. At least one pressure sensor is disposed in the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line and configured such that the at least one pressure sensor determines a pressure difference in the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation line between a point upstream of the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation valve and a point downstream of the low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation valve. A method for operating an internal combustion engine is also provided.

Internal combustion engine with an exhaust-gas recirculation and method for operating an internal combustion engine

In order to monitor and compensate for undesirable elongation of a belt or chain drive of an internal combustion engine, a control computer determines the start and time duration of fuel injection and corrects the time duration as a function of the phase relation between the engine crankshaft and a shaft having a cam for controlling fuel injection so that a desired nominal fuel quantity is injected even if belt or chain elongation causes the phase relation between the shafts to be changed.

Process and arrangement for monitoring a belt or chain drive of an

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Cremlingen/Destedt, Germany

Uwe Scher