Abstract: An exhaust gas control system includes a NSR catalyst, a fuel supply valve, a SCR catalyst an addition device, and an electronic control unit. When temperature of NSR catalyst is in a range of a predetermined first temperature range and temperature of SCR catalyst is in a range of a predetermined second temperature range, the electronic control unit is configured to add additive with the addition device, and execute predetermined air-fuel ratio processing to control the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into the NSR catalyst. In the predetermined air-fuel ratio processing, the electronic control unit is configured to execute a second air-fuel ratio processing after a first air-fuel ratio processing, and execute the third air-fuel ratio processing after a first air-fuel ratio processing and the second air-fuel ratio processing and in succession to the second air-fuel ratio processing.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine 1 is provided, in an exhaust passage thereof with an electrochemical reactor including: an ion conductive solid electrolyte layer; an anode layer arranged on a surface of the solid electrolyte layer; and a cathode layer arranged on a surface of the solid electrolyte layer and able to hold NOX. The engine includes a current control device for controlling the current supplied to the electrochemical reactor so as to flow from the anode layer through the solid electrolyte layer to the cathode layer. The current control device is configured so as to supply current to the electrochemical reactor at least temporarily while that internal combustion engine is stopped.

Abstract: When the temperature of an NSR catalyst belongs to a specified NSR temperature range and the temperature of an SCR catalyst belongs to a specified SCR temperature range, urea water is added, and specified air-fuel ratio processing relating to an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into the NSR catalyst is executed. The specified air-fuel ratio processing includes i) a first air-fuel ratio processing to cause the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into the NSR catalyst to be a first lean air-fuel ratio that causes emission of occluded NOx from the NSR catalyst and ii) a second air-fuel ratio processing to cause the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas to be a second lean air-fuel ratio leaner than the first lean air-fuel ratio. In the specified air-fuel ratio processing, the first air-fuel ratio processing and the second air-fuel ratio processing are alternately repeated.

Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided. The exhaust gas control apparatus is equipped with a NOx reduction catalyst, a reducing agent tank, a reducing agent supply device, a booster, a heater, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to perform control of raising a temperature of a reducing agent to a first target temperature such that the reducing agent supplied by the reducing agent supply device is brought into a gas-liquid mixed state in an exhaust passage, when energy of exhaust gas is lower than a first threshold.

Abstract: An exhaust treatment catalyst (5) is arranged in the engine exhaust passage, and hydrogen generated in the reformer (6) is supplied through the hydrogen supply pipe (13) to the inside of the engine exhaust passage upstream of the exhaust treatment catalyst (5). Heat exchange fins (15) for heat exchange with exhaust gas flowing through the inside of the engine exhaust passage are formed on the outer circumferential surface of the hydrogen supply pipe (13) inserted inside the engine exhaust passage.

Abstract: The fuel addition system comprises: a fuel addition valve, a fuel tank, a first pressure storage chamber storing fuel to be supplied to a fuel injector, a supply pump increasing a pressure of fuel inside the fuel tank and supplying the fuel to the first pressure storage chamber, a pressure reduction valve discharging fuel stored in the first pressure storage chamber, a pressure reduction fuel passage supplying fuel discharged from the first pressure storage chamber to the fuel addition valve, and a control device controlling the fuel addition valve and the pressure reduction valve. The control device detects or estimates a temperature of fuel supplied to the fuel addition valve and, when injecting fuel from the fuel addition valve, controls an amount of fuel discharged from the first pressure storage chamber through the pressure reduction valve so that the temperature of the fuel becomes a reference temperature or more.

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: An abnormality diagnosis apparatus includes an irradiation device to detect a resonance frequency by irradiating an electromagnetic wave to the NOx catalyst, and a controller to diagnose based on the resonance frequency whether the NOx catalyst is abnormal, wherein the NOx catalyst is arranged in such a position that an electric field strength inside the NOx catalyst at the time when the irradiation device irradiates the electromagnetic wave of the resonance frequency becomes larger in an upstream portion of the NOx catalyst, which is at the upstream side of a center of the NOx catalyst in the direction of flow of exhaust gas, than in a downstream portion of the NOx catalyst, which is at the downstream side of the center of the NOx catalyst.

Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis apparatus for an exhaust gas control apparatus. The abnormality diagnosis apparatus includes: an adsorption amount detector which detects an actual adsorption amount that is an amount of ammonia actually adsorbed in a catalyst; and an electronic control unit configured to: i) estimate an estimated adsorption amount that is an ammonia adsorption amount in the catalyst on an assumption that an ammonia supply apparatus is normal; and ii) execute an abnormality diagnosis in which the ammonia supply apparatus is diagnosed as being abnormal, in a case where the estimated adsorption amount is equal to or smaller than a predetermined adsorption amount and where a difference between the estimated adsorption amount and the actual adsorption amount is larger than a threshold.

Abstract: An exhaust purification system of an internal combustion engine comprising at least two exhaust treatment catalysts arranged in an engine exhaust passage, a hydrogen feed source, and a plurality of hydrogen feed passages for feeding hydrogen from the hydrogen feed source to the exhaust treatment catalysts. When warming up the exhaust treatment catalysts, hydrogen is fed from the hydrogen feed source through the corresponding hydrogen feed passage to the exhaust treatment catalyst with the larger rise of the exhaust removal rate when hydrogen is fed among the exhaust treatment catalysts.

Abstract: An electrochemical reactor 70 is provided with a proton conductive solid electrolyte layer 75; an anode layer 76 arranged on the surface of the solid electrolyte layer and able to hold water molecules; a cathode layer 77 arranged on the surface of the solid electrolyte layer; and a current control device 73 controlling a current flowing through the anode layer and the cathode layer. The current control device reduces the current flowing through the anode layer and the cathode layer, when the water molecules held in the anode layer become smaller in amount.

Abstract: An exhaust gas control system for an internal combustion engine, before execution of a filter regeneration process, executes a pre-regeneration process that is a process of raising a temperature of a filter to a second target temperature lower than a first target temperature and increasing the concentration of NO2 contained in exhaust gas flowing into the filter for a predetermined period. The first target temperature during execution of the filter regeneration process in the case where a speed of change in a detected value of a differential pressure sensor during execution of the pre-regeneration process is high is set so as to be lower than the first target temperature in the case where the speed of change is low.

Abstract: An exhaust gas control system for an internal combustion engine, before execution of a filter regeneration process, executes a pre-regeneration process that is a process of raising a temperature of a filter to a second target temperature lower than a first target temperature and increasing the concentration of NO2 contained in exhaust gas flowing into the filter for a predetermined period. An execution time of the filter regeneration process when a physical quantity that correlates with a speed of change in a detected value of a differential pressure sensor during execution of the pre-regeneration process is large is shorter than an execution time of the filter regeneration process when the physical quantity is small.

Abstract: An exhaust cleaning filter has an exhaust gas inflow passage and an exhaust gas outflow passage disposed in alternating fashion; and a porous partition wall for setting the exhaust gas inflow and outflow passages at a distance from each other. A small pore region is sectioned off on the upstream side and a large pore region is sectioned off on the downstream side of the partition wall. The average pore diameter of the partition wall in the large pore region is greater than in the small pore region, and is set so that ash contained in the exhaust gas is able to pass through the partition wall. The exhaust purification filter has a promoting member for promoting the passing of exhaust gas that has flowed into the exhaust gas inflow passage, through the partition wall in the small pore region, and promoting inflow into the exhaust gas outflow passage.

Abstract: An exhaust treatment catalyst (13) arranged in an engine exhaust passage and a heat and hydrogen generation device (50) are provided. The amount of fuel fed to the heat and hydrogen generation device (50), which is required for making the temperature of the exhaust treatment catalyst (13) rise by exactly a predetermined temperature rise by heat and hydrogen fed from the heat and hydrogen generation device (50) when the exhaust treatment catalyst (13) is not poisoned and does not thermally deteriorate, is calculated based on the amount of exhaust gas. When fuel of the reference feed fuel amount corresponding to the amount of exhaust gas is fed to the heat and hydrogen generation device (50) and the temperature rise of the exhaust treatment catalyst (13) fails to reach the predetermined temperature rise, the treatment for restoration from poisoning of the exhaust treatment catalyst (13) is performed.

Abstract: An exhaust purification system of an internal combustion engine comprising an exhaust treatment catalyst (13) arranged in an engine exhaust passage and a heat and hydrogen generation device (50) able to feed only heat or heat and hydrogen to the exhaust treatment catalyst (13). When the warm-up operation of the heat and hydrogen generation device (50) is completed and a reforming action by a reformer catalyst (54) becomes possible, if the temperature of the exhaust treatment catalyst (13) is a preset activation temperature or more, a partial oxidation reaction is performed at the heat and hydrogen generation device (50) and the generated heat and hydrogen are fed to the exhaust treatment catalyst (50). At this time, if the temperature of the exhaust treatment catalyst (13) is less than the preset activation temperature, a complete oxidation reaction by a lean air-fuel ratio is continued and a heat is fed to the exhaust treatment catalyst (13).

Abstract: A NOx catalyst is provided that can realize a favorable NOx reduction in a broad temperature region and that can lighten the overhead involved in production.

Abstract: An exhaust gas control system includes a NSR catalyst, a fuel supply valve, a SCR catalyst an addition device, and an electronic control unit. When temperature of NSR catalyst is in a rage of a predetermined first temperature range and temperature of SCR catalyst is in a rage of a predetermined second temperature range, the electronic control unit is configured to add additive with the addition device, and execute predetermined air-fuel ratio processing to control the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into the NSR catalyst. In the predetermined air-fuel ratio processing, the electronic control unit is configured to execute a second air-fuel ratio processing after a first air-fuel ratio processing, and execute the third air-fuel ratio processing after a first air-fuel ratio processing and the second air-fuel ratio processing and in succession to the second air-fuel ratio processing.

Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus includes a fuel injection device, a NOx occlusion reduction catalyst, a fuel addition valve, an inflow gas adjustment device, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit executes a low flow rate reduction treatment for removing NOx occluded in the NOx occlusion reduction catalyst after fuel supply from the fuel injection device is stopped. The electronic control unit controls the inflow gas adjustment device such that a ratio of oxygen to the fuel added to the NOx occlusion reduction catalyst at a time when a temperature of the NOx occlusion reduction catalyst is below an activation temperature becomes higher than a ratio of oxygen to the fuel added to the NOx occlusion reduction catalyst at a time when the temperature of the NOx occlusion reduction catalyst is equal to or higher than the activation temperature during the low flow rate reduction treatment.

Abstract: An exhaust purification system including a particulate filter, a selective reduction catalyst provided at a downstream side from the filter, an ammonia ingredient feed device which feeds an ammonia ingredient to the selective reduction catalyst, a control device which controls the amount of the ammonia ingredient which is adsorbed at the selective reduction catalyst to become a target adsorption amount, and a filter regeneration system which performs filter regeneration processing to remove PM which has built up on the particulate filter when an execution start condition stands. When removal of PM is demanded, so long as the execution start condition of the filter regeneration processing by the filter regeneration system does not stand, the target adsorption amount is decreased a plurality of times in stages, and the execution start condition of the filter regeneration processing is changed to a different condition at each stage of the target adsorption amount.