Abstract: A method for producing a filter element includes forming longitudinal ducts extending between upstream and downstream surfaces of the filter element, and installing a heating element for heating regions of walls of the ducts along longitudinal extent of the walls. The filter element is arranged inside an injection valve of an internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A process for the desulfurization of an engine fuel onboard a motor vehicle includes separating sulfur-containing components of the engine fuel by selective liquid-phase adsorption on an adsorption material. The adsorption material may be an oxide of Al, Mg, Si, or Ti that is doped with Ag.

Abstract: A method for heating a fuel flowing through an injection valve into a combustion space of an internal combustion engine includes conveying fuel through ducts of a filter element arranged in the fuel flow, heating walls of the throughflow ducts at least in certain regions along their longitudinal extent, and introducing heat from the walls into the fuel.

Abstract: A method for producing a filter element includes forming longitudinal ducts extending between upstream and downstream surfaces of the filter element, and installing a heating element for heating regions of walls of the ducts along longitudinal extent of the walls. The filter element is arranged inside an injection valve of an internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A method for heating a fuel flowing through an injection valve into a combustion space of an internal combustion engine includes conveying fuel through ducts of a filter element arranged in the fuel flow, heating walls of the throughflow ducts at least in certain regions along their longitudinal extent, and introducing heat from the walls into the fuel.

Abstract: In a fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine including a fuel tank, a fuel processing apparatus to which fuel from the tank is supplied and which separates the fuel into different fractions, the fuel and the fractions are mixed in a mixing chamber according to a performance graph stored in a control unit depending on the operating state of the engine and the mixture is then supplied to the engine in a controlled manner.

Abstract: An injection valve for internal combustion engines has a filter element arranged on the inside of the injection valve in the fuel flow of the latter with ducts for the fuel. The filter element is designed as a throughflow heating element, for which purposes the walls of the throughflow ducts are capable of being heated, at least in certain regions, along their longitudinal extent.

Abstract: In a fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine having a fuel tank for liquid fuel, a fuel pump which draws fuel from the fuel tank and pressurized the fuel to an injection pressure at which the fuel is made available to the internal combustion engine, a fuel-fractionating device which produces at least one liquid fuel fraction from the fuel, and an accumulator which receives the liquid fuel fraction from the fuel-fractionating device, stores it and makes it available to the internal combustion engine, the fuel fraction made available and the fuel made available being fed to the internal combustion engine by the fuel supply system as a function of demand, the accumulator is a pressure accumulator and includes pressure-generating means for pressurizing fuel fraction in the pressure accumulator to the injection pressure.

Abstract: In a fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine including a fuel tank, a fuel processing apparatus to which fuel from the tank is supplied and which separates the fuel into different fractions, the fuel and the fractions are mixed in a mixing chamber according to a performance graph stored in a control unit depending on the operating state of the engine and the mixture is then supplied to the engine in a controlled manner.

Abstract: A flushable bi-fuel injector, in particular for combustion engines, comprises a nozzle body incorporating a nozzle exit (11), a movably held valve needle (12) for opening and closing the nozzle exit (11), a first supply channel (13) for supplying a first liquid or a first fuel to the nozzle exit (11); and a second supply channel (23) for supplying a second liquid or a second fuel or a liquid additive to the nozzle exit (11). A ring-shaped slide gate (21) or a ring piston is arranged in a ring-shaped chamber (20) within the nozzle body (1). The slide gate (21) can be hydraulically activated to either side via differential pressure. Depending on its position, the slide gate (21) connects either the first supply channel (13) or the second supply channel (23) to the nozzle exit (11).

Abstract: In a fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine having a fuel tank for liquid fuel, a fuel pump which draws fuel from the fuel tank and pressurized the fuel to an injection pressure at which the fuel is made available to the internal combustion engine, a fuel-fractionating device which produces at least one liquid fuel fraction from the fuel, and an accumulator which receives the liquid fuel fraction from the fuel-fractionating device, stores it and makes it available to the internal combustion engine, the fuel fraction made available and the fuel made available being fed to the internal combustion engine by the fuel supply system as a function of demand, the accumulator is a pressure accumulator and includes pressure-generating means for pressurizing fuel fraction in the pressure accumulator to the injection pressure.

Abstract: A flushable bi-fuel injector, in particular for combustion engines, comprises a nozzle body incorporating a nozzle exit (11), a movably held valve needle (12) for opening and closing the nozzle exit (11), a first supply channel (13) for supplying a first liquid or a first fuel to the nozzle exit (11); and a second supply channel (23) for supplying a second liquid or a second fuel or a liquid additive to the nozzle exit (11). A ring-shaped slide gate (21) or a ring piston is arranged in a ring-shaped chamber (20) within the nozzle body (1). The slide gate (21) can be hydraulically activated to either side via differential pressure. Depending on its position, the slide gate (21) connects either the first supply channel (13) or the second supply channel (23) to the nozzle exit (11).

Abstract: An injection valve for internal combustion engines has a filter element arranged on the inside of the injection valve in the fuel flow of the latter with ducts for the fuel. The filter element is designed as a throughflow heating element, for which purposes the walls of the throughflow ducts are capable of being heated, at least in certain regions, along their longitudinal extent.

Abstract: A method for operating a multicylinder internal combustion engine with at least one adsorber catalytic converter in the exhaust line of the internal combustion engine includes operating the adsorber catalytic converter with periodically alternating adsorption and desorption operation. The exhaust leaving the adsorber catalytic converter in desorption operation is recycled and/or an oxidation catalytic converter is provided upstream of the adsorber catalytic converter. Exhaust recycling takes place occurs selectively in only one set of the cylinders of the internal combustion engine and this set of cylinders is operated in a state of incomplete combustion during desorption operation. Rich afterburning may be performed during desorption operation of the adsorber catalytic converter in the oxidation catalytic converter connected upstream and the oxidation catalytic converter is operated at an increased temperature during short regeneration phases to remove soot.

Abstract: The invention relates to a piston having a variable compression height and two control chambers connected to each other through a hydraulic system. In order to achieve better cold-start and warm-up behavior, an oil discharge bore from the upper control chamber into the crankcase is closed by a control slide valve in the cold operating state of the engine. The blockage of the oil discharge produces a great compression height and therefore high compression. The control slide valve is connected to an expansible element which maintains it in this closed position when the engine is cold. As the engine warms up, the expansible element, due to its thermal expansion, pushes the control slide valve out of its closed position, so that the discharge of oil can occur progressively more unthrottled with rising temperature. In the warm operating state of the engine the control slide valve clears the oil discharge duct completely, and an unobstructed discharge of oil is ensured.

Abstract: An arrangement for the control of the oil feed into a control chamber of a piston with variable compression height for internal-combustion engines comprises a control valve in the longitudinal bore of a connecting rod that is provided with a flow-through bore for the oil supply of the control chamber in the operation of the internal-combustion engine. This flow-through bore is closed as a function of the inertial forces acting in the oil feed. In order to avoid a ceasing of the oil column in the longitudinal bore, the control valve has an additional control bore that is opened only in the starting phase and via which an additional amount of oil is guided from the lubricating oil circuit of the internal-combustion engine into the control chamber, which accelerates the upward control of the piston.

Abstract: The invention relates to a piston with variable compression height, particularly for internal-combustion engines, that consists of an interior piston part to which a connecting rod is coupled, and an exterior piston part that is slidably held at said interior piston part. In this case, the exterior piston, via two control chambers that are supplied with oil from the lubricating oil circuit, supports itself by adherence at the interior piston part, said control chambers being connected by a hydraulic system.