Abstract: A device for direct addition of solid additives to fuels for internal combustion engines. In order to ensure a concentration of the solid additive in the fuel which is as constant as possible, the device has a cartridge at least partially filled with the solid additives and at least partially permeable to the fuel. The cartridge is located in a portion of the filling neck of a fuel tank.

Abstract: A method for the controlled addition of an additive to the fuel supply of a vehicle internal combustion engine, in particular a diesel engine with an exhaust particulate filter, in which the addition is performed as a function of an increase in the fuel supply. While the vehicle is in motion with the engine running, the fuel level is measured at predetermined short time intervals and, having been averaged over a predetermined number of these time intervals, is fed to a measured-value storage device in which the previous average value is compared with the new average value. When a differential value is detected in the average value comparison which exceeds a predetermined tolerance level, an addition of additive proportional to the increase in the level is triggered. After each comparison, the previous average value is erased and replaced by the new average value.

Abstract: An apparatus for the regeneration of a soot-particle filter is located in the exhaust-gas line of an air-compression, fuel-injected internal-combustion engine. The apparatus regenerates the filter using a process which burns off the soot particles in the filter. A device in the intake line is actuable as a function of the engine load and engine speed and controls the cross-section of the intake line. To prevent damage to the soot-particle filter body during a transition of the internal-combustion engine into the deceleration mode, immediately after the transition into the deceleration mode of the internal-combustion engine, the process and apparatus move the device for controlling the intake-line cross-section first out of its open position into a position to reduce the line cross-section to a minimum and thereafter continuously into its open position.

Abstract: A diesel internal combustion engine in the exhaust gas line system of which is arranged a device for the ionization of soot particles contained in the exhaust gas and a device for the separation thereof from the exhaust gas stream. In order to be able to realize a low structural expenditure, the device for the ionization of the soot particles is constructed as a light source emitting ultraviolet light.

Abstract: An arrangement for removing soot particles from the exhaust stream of a diesel internal combustion engine in such a manner that the soot particles are caught between conductor elements disposed at different potential, produce a short circuit and thereby burn off. In order to be able to realize a purification of the exhaust gas stream without a significant increase of the exhaust gas counterpressure, a centrifugal separator is connected to the exhaust gas line, which passes over into a soot particle collecting chamber constructed axially symmetrical to the longitudinal axis thereof; a predetermined number of electrodes is arranged in turn in the soot particle collecting chamber at a slight distance to the casing interior surface whereby the electrodes among one another or the electrodes and the soot particle collecting chamber itself are at a different potential.