Abstract: A urea water supply system which performs permission determination by a control device based on a first parameter includes a cooling water temperature sensor, and a control device is configured to be able to store a result of the permission determination, and when a system control is restarted after the system control is stopped and a stop period is elapsed, it performs a shortening setting to shorten a time required for the permission determination based on the determination result stored at a time when the system is stopped and a cooling water temperature immediately after restarting.

Abstract: A water lead-through module is disclosed for discharging water into the sea through a hull of a marine vessel provided with a flow tube having a first end and a second end. The flow tube is of first grade steel, having an attachment flange part at the first end of the flow tube, and an outlet flange part at the second end of the flow tube extending radially outwards. A planar transition plate of a second grade steel has an outer periphery and includes an opening defining an inner periphery which conforms with an outer periphery of the outlet flange part, and wherein the transition plate is arranged axially flush with, rigidly connected to, by welding, the outlet flange part of the flow tube.

Abstract: A heat shield assembly is provided for shielding a wire harness that is associated with a sensor in communication with a heat source. The heat shield assembly includes a base plate having a primary aperture that is configured to allow passage of the wire harness therethrough. The primary aperture is disposed in alignment with a hole defined on a shroud of the heat source. The heat shield assembly also includes a pair of walls extending upwardly from a pair of opposite edges of the base plate. Further, the heat shield assembly also includes a pair of ledge members that extend laterally from a pair of first ends associated with the pair of walls. Furthermore, the heat shield assembly also includes a pair of thermal diverter plates that extend angularly from a pair of second ends associated with the pair of ledge members.

Abstract: A system includes a waste heat recovery heat exchanger configured to heat a heating fluid stream by exchange with a heat source in a crude oil associated gas processing plant; and a Kalina cycle energy conversion system including a first group of heat exchangers to heat a first portion of a working fluid by exchange with the heated heating fluid stream and a second group of heat exchangers to heat a second portion of the working fluid. The second group of heat exchangers includes a first heat exchanger to heat the second portion of the working fluid by exchange with a liquid stream of the working fluid; and a second heat exchanger to heat the second portion of the working fluid by exchange with the heated heating fluid stream.

Abstract: A clamping assembly configured for an exhaust system of a vehicle may include a gasket engaged to be prevented from deviating using a method in which a pin is inserted into and engaged with a pin hole at an inlet pipe flange of a catalytic converter, wherein an outlet pipe flange of a turbocharger and an inlet pipe flange of the catalytic converter are clamped by a clamp by interposing the gasket between the outlet pipe flange of the turbocharger and the inlet pipe flange of the catalytic converter.

Abstract: A maintenance pipe (30) used during maintenance of an exhaust purification device equipped with: a set of an oxidation catalyst (22) and a filter (23) for purifying exhaust gas from an engine (10); an upstream connecting pipe (16A) and a downstream connecting pipe (16B) which are mounted in a demountable way and guide the exhaust gas from the engine (10) to the oxidation catalyst (22); and an exhaust pipe injection device (24) and injectors (12) for increasing a concentration of unburned fuel contained in the exhaust gas. The maintenance pipe includes a flanged steel pipe (31) mounted to be replaceable with the downstream connecting pipe (16B), and a maintenance catalyst (32) that is housed in the flanged steel pipe (31), generates heat caused by oxidizing the unburned fuel contained in the exhaust gas from the engine (10), and heats the exhaust to discharge the exhaust to an exhaust downstream side.

Abstract: A method for monitoring pollutant emissions during the operation of a combustion engine and/or an exhaust-aftertreatment device in a motor vehicle includes determining one or more pollutant-limit values for one or more pollutant categories using an emission limit-value model and as a function of one or more operating-state variables of the motor vehicle; ascertaining a pollutant-concentration variable for each pollutant category using sensors; and detecting an error in the form of an exceeding of the one or the plurality of pollutant-limit vales as a function of the pollutant-concentration variable for each pollutant category.

Abstract: A mixer includes a baffle having a baffle inlet receiving exhaust gas from an upstream exhaust component and a baffle outlet directing exhaust gas to a downstream exhaust component. A cover provides a chamber between an internal surface of the cover and the baffle. An internal box is positioned within the chamber to cover the baffle outlet and includes a bottom wall with a peripheral wall extending about at least a portion of an outer periphery of the bottom wall. At least one deflector wall is positioned within the internal box to provide a wall surface that is spaced from the peripheral wall to define an internal flow path that diverts exhaust gas at least partially around the baffle outlet before exiting the baffle outlet. An opening is located in the peripheral wall to receive exhaust gas exiting the inlet and to direct exhaust gas into the internal flow path.

Abstract: A rotary engine that starts and operates on compression-ignition of a heavy fuel without a secondary ignition source. The rotary engine includes a rotor housing that forms an epitrochoidal-shaped chamber having linear side portions extending between rounded end portions. A three-flanked rotor is disposed in the chamber to rotate and operate in a manner similar to that of a common Wankel-style rotary engine. The rotor and chamber are configured to provide a compression ratio sufficient to produce compression-ignition of a heavy fuel. The rotor includes apex seal and side seal mounting blocks formed from hardened materials and that are simply removable from the rotor for replacing apex and side seals. The apex seals may include multiple non-parallel seal members at each apex and the apex seals and the side seals may overlap or intersect a corner seal to increase sealing under high compression loads produced by the rotor/chamber configuration.

Abstract: Provided is a waste heat recovery power generation system, including: a compressor configured to compress a working fluid; a heat exchanger configured to recover waste heat from waste heat gas supplied from a waste heat source, the recovered waste heat heating the working fluid; a turbine configured to be driven by the working fluid heated by the recovered waste heat; and a recuperator configured to exchange heat between an output fluid of the turbine and an output fluid of the compressor to cool the output fluid of the turbine in which the output fluid of the compressor is branched into a first output fluid and a second output fluid of the compressor.

Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine includes a processing circuit that performs a dither control process on condition that a temperature increase request of a catalyst is made. The processing circuit operates fuel injection valves so that during the dither control process, one or more cylinders are lean combustion cylinders in a first period and another one or more cylinders are rich combustion cylinders and so that the average value of an exhaust gas-fuel ratio is a target air-fuel ratio in a second period including the first period. The dither control process is restricted in a manner that, on condition that the rich process is performed, the degree of richening of the richest exhaust gas-fuel ratio of exhaust gas-fuel ratios in the cylinders is reduced.

Abstract: The NOx catalyst is irradiated with an electromagnetic wave, a resonance frequency and a ratio of a reception power to an oscillation power at the time of the irradiation are detected, and an upper limit value of a change amount of the resonance frequency or an upper limit value of a change amount of the ratio at which the NOx catalyst is diagnosed to be abnormal is determined from a change amount of the resonance frequency and a change amount of the ratio until water is adsorbed on all acid sites included in the NOx catalyst, and a change amount of the resonance frequency and a change amount of the ratio until ammonia is adsorbed on all acid sites included in the NOx catalyst, when it is supposed that the NOx catalyst is in a state of being on the borderline between normal and abnormal.

Abstract: A nozzle including an interior cavity, a structure disposed within the interior cavity, a first channel fluidly connected to the interior cavity, one or more second channels fluidly connected to the interior cavity, and one or more outlets coupled to the interior cavity. The structure includes a bottom impinging surface that is at least partially concave, one or more legs that support the bottom impinging surface, and a top surface located opposite the bottom impinging surface.

Abstract: The CO2 separation system performs, when the internal combustion engine is operating and the vehicle is travelling, a first mode wherein exhaust gas generated by the internal combustion engine is introduced to a CO2 supply side of a first CO2 separation device via a first CO2 supply side introduction flow path, and air from outside the vehicle is introduced to a CO2 permeation side of the first CO2 separation device via a first CO2 permeation side introduction flow path using travelling wind, whereby CO2 in the exhaust gas selectively permeates from the CO2 supply side to the CO2 permeation side of the first CO2 separation device through a CO2 permeable membrane of the first CO2 separation device using a difference in CO2 partial pressure between the CO2 supply side and the CO2 permeation side of the first CO2 separation device as a driving force.

Abstract: A nozzle including an exterior surface extending between a first end and a second end of the nozzle. The exterior surface including spray outlets disposed at the second end. An interior cavity is disposed interior to the exterior surface. A first channel and a second channel fluidly connect to the interior cavity. One or more third channels fluidly connect between the interior cavity and an individual spray outlet of the spray outlets. The one or more third channels rotate about a longitudinal axis of the nozzle and angle in a direction away from the longitudinal axis of the nozzle.

Abstract: Exhaust gas treatment system (100) for a motor vehicle, comprising a first catalytic converter (101-1) for selective catalytic reduction; a second catalytic converter (101-2) for selective catalytic reduction; a first nitrogen oxide sensor (103-1) upstream of the first catalytic converter (101-1) for detecting a first nitrogen oxide value (NOx-1); a second nitrogen oxide sensor (103-2) between the first and the second catalytic converter (101-1; 101-2) for detecting a second nitrogen oxide value (NOx-2); a third nitrogen oxide sensor (103-3) downstream of the second catalytic converter (101-2) for detecting a third nitrogen oxide value (NOx-3); an electronic evaluation device (105) for calculating a first efficiency of the first catalytic converter (101-1) on the basis of the first and the second nitrogen oxide value (NOx-1; NOx-2), a second efficiency of the second catalytic converter (101-2) on the basis of the second and the third nitrogen oxide value (NOx-2; NOx-3) and a total efficiency of the exhaust ga

Abstract: A metering device for metering water or an aqueous solution, such as an injector for metering a reducing agent liquid into an exhaust gas stream of a combustion system or an injector for metering water or aqueous solution into a combustion chamber or into an intake manifold of an internal combustion engine. The metering device has an inlet and an outlet for the water or aqueous solution and a shut-off device which is arranged between the inlet and the outlet. At least one electrically operated heating element is arranged in the region of the shut-off device so as to heat and avoid freezing of the liquid.

Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to prevent the sensing accuracy of an exhaust gas sensor from being deteriorated by the effect of electromagnetic waves in an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine that is configured to apply electromagnetic waves to the exhaust gas purification device provided in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine. The disclosure is applied to an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine including an exhaust gas sensor located within the range of radiation of electromagnetic waves from a radiating device that radiates electromagnetic waves of a specific frequency to an exhaust gas purification device. The system suspends the radiation of electromagnetic waves from the radiating device during a sampling period in which sampling of the output value of the exhaust gas sensor is performed, even when a specific condition for performing the radiation is met.

Abstract: A thermal overload of an internal combustion engine and of cooling system of a combustion machine due to a raising of the temperature of the exhaust gas flowing through an exhaust gas line of the combustion machine, which is provided as a measure to desulfurize a NOx storage catalytic converter and/or to regenerate a particulate filter, is prevented in that before and/or during this measure, the cooling output for the coolant flowing through the cooling system is systematically increased in order to achieve a lowering of the coolant temperature to a value range that lies below what would normally—that is to say, without the simultaneous desulfurization of the NOx storage catalytic converter and/or without the regeneration of the particulate filter—have been provided for the operation of the combustion machine in a corresponding operating state of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: An exhaust manifold for an internal combustion piston engine with a row of at least two cylinders inclined from the vertical. The exhaust manifold has plural exhaust stack assemblies and a manifold plenum with an outlet. Each of the plural exhaust stack assemblies comprises a leader pipe and an exhaust connector, with a first end of each leader pipe being joined to a first end of the exhaust connector of the exhaust stack assembly, and a second end of each exhaust connector being joined to the manifold plenum. Each leader pipe is joined to a manifold flange that is adapted for joining to the internal combustion engine to receive exhaust gases from the cylinders of the engine. Each leader pipe is joined in a vertical plane to the manifold flange at a first angle so that the plural exhaust stack assemblies are approximately horizontally oriented when joined to the internal combustion engine, and each leader pipe is joined in a horizontal plane to the manifold flange at a second angle inclined toward the outlet.