Abstract: The invention concerns a device to produce 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, whereby the ammonia is admixed with the exhaust gas in the direction of flow in front of a SCR-catalytic converter. In so doing, provision is made for a nitrogen oxide production unit separated from the combustion source and its exhaust gas duct and a hydrogen production unit separated from the combustion source and its exhaust gas duct; and nitrogen oxide of the nitrogen oxide production unit and the hydrogen of the hydrogen production unit are delivered at least to a storage catalytic converter or a nitrogen oxide storage and a subsequently connected catalytic converter for the storage of the nitrogen oxide and for the formation of ammonia.

Abstract: A method for operating a particulate filter situated in an exhaust gas area of an internal combustion engine and a device for carrying out the method are described. A measure of the particulate matter burn-off rate is detected for influencing and/or monitoring the particulate matter burn-off rate or for influencing and/or monitoring the particulate filter temperature. A secondary air flow supplied by a secondary air pump is blown into the exhaust gas area upstream from the particulate filter. The secondary air flow is determined as a function of the detected measure of the particulate matter burn-off rate. If necessary, the secondary air flow may be enriched by an oxygen flow or nitrogen flow supplied by an air separation unit. The method prevents the particulate filter from being damaged by an unacceptably high particulate matter burn-off rate or an unacceptably high particulate filter temperature.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a gaseous reducing agent for reducing nitrogen oxides in oxygen-containing exhaust gases, especially exhaust gases of internal-combustion engines, the gases being subjected to a selective-catalytic secondary treatment in a catalytic converter, which is characterized by the fact that a solid reducing agent is brought into contact with a liquid heat-carrying agent that has been heated to a temperature in the range of the evaporation temperature of the reducing agent.

Abstract: A method and a device for supplying a fuel, in particular for operating combustion engines in motor vehicles, turbines or the like, the fuel being split at a separation means into a first fuel fraction in the form of a retentate and into a second fuel fraction in the form of a permeate. On the permeate side, the separation means is acted upon by a scavenging gas, so that a mixture of the fuel permeate and the scavenging gas is produced.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a gaseous reducing agent for reducing nitrogen oxides in oxygen-containing exhaust gases, especially exhaust gases of internal-combustion engines, the gases being subjected to a selective-catalytic secondary treatment in a catalytic converter, which is characterized by the fact that a solid reducing agent is brought into contact with a liquid heat-carrying agent that has been heated to a temperature in the range of the evaporation temperature of the reducing agent.