Method for operating a combustion engine and combustion engine for carrying out the method
OwnerArno Hofmanninventor
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Abstract
In a method for operating a combustion engine in which exhaust gas located in a cylinder during an outlet cycle thereof is ejected from the cylinder and supplied to an exhaust system, a particularly high specific power output of the combustion engine and/or a particularly low specific fuel consumption are to be made possible, in a particularly simple and reliable manner. For this purpose, according to the invention, in a first cycle phase of the outlet cycle the pulse of the exhaust gas pressure wave flowing out of the cylinder is transmitted in whole or in part to the primary side of an exhaust gas charge pump, before the exhaust gas is passed to the exhaust system in a second cycle phase of the outlet cycle.
Claims5
A method for operating a combustion engine, the method comprising the steps of:
- ejecting, during an outlet cycle of a cylinder of the combustion engine, exhaust gas located under pressure in the cylinder of the combustion engine from the cylinder and supplying the exhaust gas to an exhaust systems;
- transmitting, in a first cycle phase of the outlet cycle at least a portion of a pulse of the exhaust gas pressure wave flowing out of the cylinder to the primary side of an exhaust gas charge pump;
- converting, in a first cycle phase of the outlet cycle, the pulse into compression work to compress fresh gas on the secondary side of the exhaust gas charge pump;
- passing, in a second cycle phase of the outlet cycle, the exhaust gas to the exhaust system through a pulse switch without flowing through the exhaust gas charge pump;
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- supplying, in an inlet cycle of the cylinder of the combustion engine, the compressed fresh gas to the cylinder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.