Control device for internal combustion engine

A control device for an internal combustion engine,

• the internal combustion engine comprising:
• an engine body;
• an HC adsorption and removal catalyst provided in an exhaust passage of the engine body, including an HC adsorption layer adsorbing HC in the exhaust and a catalyst layer removing the HC, and having a desorption temperature of the HC from the HC adsorption layer lower than an HC removal temperature of a temperature where a rate of removal of HC at the catalyst layer is a predetermined rate or more when an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust is in a region near the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio;
• and
• an air feed device for feeding air to the HC adsorption and removal catalyst, wherein
• the control device comprises an air feed control part configured to control the air feed device to feed air to the HC adsorption and removal catalyst when a predetermined condition stands,
• the predetermined condition being the temperature of the HC adsorption and removal catalyst being the desorption temperature or more and less than the HC removal temperature.