Abstract: The invention relates to a method for diagnosing the malfunctioning of a device for adding an additive into a fuel for a vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine, said method including: a step of analyzing the fuel in order to determine a variation in the amount of additive in the fuel; a step of comparing the variation in the amount of additive, measured during the previous step, with a theoretical variation in said amount; a step of sending information when the difference between the measured variation and the theoretical variation exceeds a set value. The invention also relates to a system for adding an additive into fuel and for diagnosis for a vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine, which is intended for implementing said method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for dispensing a liquid additive into a fuel circulation circuit (2) for an internal combustion engine, in particular for an engine equipping a vehicle, said device comprising: a tank (26) containing the additive, an enclosure (24) communicating with the fuel circulation circuit (2) and inside which the tank (26) containing the additive is inserted, means for injecting additive connected to the tank (26) and the fuel circulation circuit (2) and making it possible to dispense the additive in the fuel circulation circuit (2), and control means for controlling the injection means.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for operating an internal combustion engine of a vehicle equipped with an exhaust system comprising a catalysed particulate filter in which the engine is supplied with a fuel containing a catalyst for regenerating the particulate filter. The process is characterized in that the concentration of catalyst in the fuel varies discontinuously.

Abstract: A composition contains an additive for assisting with the regeneration of the PF in the form of an organic dispersion of iron particles and a detergent including a polyester quaternary ammonium salt.

Abstract: A dispersion includes an apolar organic phase, at least one amphiphilic agent, and solid objects based on particles of an iron compound in crystallized form of small size.

Abstract: A composition contains an additive for assisting with regeneration of the PF in the form of an organic dispersion of iron particles in crystallized form and a detergent including a quaternary ammonium salt.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of dispersions including an organic phase, at least one amphiphilic agent and solid objects based on particles of an iron compound in the crystallized form with a small size, as a fuel additive.

Abstract: A method for processing a CO2-containing gas in order to reduce the carbon dioxide content thereof, includes contacting the gas with a compound of at least one rare earth element, whereby the carbon dioxide is adsorbed onto the compound and a carbon dioxide-depleted gas is thus obtained; such compound is more particularly an oxide, and the rare earth element is particularly selected from among cerium, lanthanum or praseodymium.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for dispensing a liquid additive into a fuel circulation circuit for an internal combustion engine, comprising a reservoir (12) of liquid additive allowing an additive to be distributed into the fuel circulation circuit by means of a distribution line (16), characterized in that it comprises an additive chamber (22) in communication with the fuel circulation circuit and at least one wall (32) that is mobile and fluidtight between said additive chamber and the additive reservoir which, on the one hand, provides a fluidtight division and, on the other hand, maintains equal pressure between the additive in the additive reservoir and the fuel in the additive chamber.

Abstract: Compositions that include a detergent composition and an active metal compound are described wherein the detergent composition includes a quaternary ammonium salt detergent and optionally an oxygen-containing detergent, and wherein the active metal compound is in the form of a colloidal dispersion, comprising an organic phase, particles of an iron compound in its amorphous form, and at least one amphiphilic agent. These compositions can be used in fuels to provide improved engine performance by, for example, reducing fuel injector fouling in the engine and/or by improving the regeneration of the engine's particulate exhaust trap.

Abstract: A method for processing a CO2-containing gas in order to reduce the carbon dioxide content thereof, includes contacting the gas with a compound of at least one rare earth element, whereby the carbon dioxide is adsorbed onto the compound and a carbon dioxide-depleted gas is thus obtained; such compound is more particularly an oxide, and the rare earth element is particularly selected from among cerium, lanthanum or praseodymium.

Abstract: Diesel or lean-burn engines which are fitted with an exhaust system provided with a particle filter are supplied with a fuel containing an additive capable of lowering the temperature at which the soot particles trapped by the particle filter can be burned and which essentially consists of an iron compound or essentially consists of an iron compound and of a cerium compound, and wherein the particle filter through which the exhaust gases produced by the combustion of the fuel in the engine pass is a catalytic filter in which the catalyst assists with the combustion of the soot particles; this improves soot combustion dynamics, particularly at low temperatures.

Abstract: Thermally stable, solid alumina-based compositions useful for the trapping of nitrogen oxides that are contained in gaseous fluids, notably in vehicular exhaust gases, are formed of alumina, cerium and a divalent metal M selected from among barium, strontium or an association of these two elements and which include at least 10% of the weight of element M expressed by weight of oxide in contrast to the total weight of the composition and also wherein the aluminate compound of the metal element M, i.e., MAl204, is absent and not detectable by X-ray diffraction of the composition, after calcination thereof with air at 700° C. for two hours.

Abstract: Engines equipped with an exhaust line fitted with a particulate filter, in which the particulates contained in the exhaust gas are trapped on such filter, and wherein the trapped particulates are periodically burned off, are operated by improvedly catalyzing the combustion of said particles utilizing a composition containing mixture of a lubricating oil and a colloidal dispersion as the engine-lubricating composition, which dispersion includes particles of at least one compound of at least one rare earth and an amphiphilic agent.

Abstract: Lubricant compositions contain a blend of a lubricating oil and a colloidal dispersion of particles of at least one iron compound and an amphiphilic agent; such compositions are useful for operating an engine, more particularly a diesel engine, which is equipped with an exhaust system fitted with a particle filter, wherein the particles present in the exhaust gases are trapped on the filter and, periodically, the trapped particles are burned, and further wherein the subject compositions are employed as engine lubricants with a view to catalyzing the combustion of the trapped particles.

Abstract: A catalyst contains at least one group VIII element and at least molybdenum and/or tungsten, said elements being present at least in part in the catalyst in the dry state in the form of at least one heteropolyanion with formula MxAB6O24H6C(3-2x), tH2O; MxAB6O24H6C(4-2x), tH2O; MxA2B10O38H4C(6-2x), tH2O; MxA2B10O38H4C(8-2x), tH2O; or MxA2B10O38H4C(7-2x), tH2O, in which M is cobalt and/or nickel and/or iron and/or copper and/or zinc, A is one or two elements from group VIII of the periodic table, B is molybdenum and/or tungsten and C is an H+ ion and/or a (NR1R2R3R4)+ type ammonium ion, in which R1, R2, R3 and R4, which may be identical or different, correspond either to a hydrogen atom or to an alkyl group and/or caesium and/or potassium and/or sodium, t is a number between 0 and 15 and x takes a value in the range 0 to 4 depending on the formula.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for conversion of hydrocarbons in the presence of at least one catalyst with controlled acidity, characterized in that the level of activity of said catalyst in isomerization of the cyclohexane is less than 0.10 and/or in that the ratio of toluene hydrogenation activity to the cyclohexane isomerization activity is greater than 10.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst for the hydrorefining and/or hydroconversion of hydrocarbon charges the active phase of which comprises at least one molybdenum and tungsten sulphide solid solution within the same flake, of approximate general formula MoxW1-xSy, where x is a number strictly comprised between 0 and 1 and y is a number comprised between 1.4 and 2.6 and preferably at least one element of Group VIII.

Abstract: A catalyst contains at least one group VIII element and at least molybdenum and/or tungsten, said elements being present at least in part in the catalyst in the dry state in the form of at least one heteropolyanion with formula MxAB6O24H6C(3-2x), tH2O; MxAB6O24H6C(4-2x), tH2O; MxA2B10O38H4C(6-2x), tH2O; MxA2B10O38H4C(8-2x), tH2O; or MxA2B10O38H4C(7-2x), tH2O, in which M is cobalt and/or nickel and/or iron and/or copper and/or zinc, A is one or two elements from group VIII of the periodic table, B is molybdenum and/or tungsten and C is an H+ ion and/or a (NR1R2R3R4)+ type ammonium ion, in which R1, R2, R3 and R4, which may be identical or different, correspond either to a hydrogen atom or to an alkyl group and/or caesium and/or potassium and/or sodium, t is a number between 0 and 15 and x takes a value in the range 0 to 4 depending on the formula.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for conversion of hydrocarbons in the presence of at least one catalyst with controlled acidity, characterized in that the level of activity of said catalyst in isomerization of the cyclohexane is less than 0.10 and/or in that the ratio of toluene hydrogenation activity to the cyclohexane isomerization activity is greater than 10.