Pollution handling process and system for vehicles
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsElena FERSMAN, Athanasios KARAPANTELAKIS, N Hari KUMAR, Nina WASHINGTON
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Abstract
The present invention is a method and system for collection of exhaust emissions installed in vehicles and disposal thereof, based on pollution conditions of the surrounding environment, said conditions identified either from sensors installed on the vehicles themselves, or by means of an external service, e.g. the Internet, cloud service, etc.
Claims20
Pollution handling process for a vehicle driven by fuel causing emission of pollutants in exhaust fumes from the vehicle, the process comprising:
- collecting the exhaust fumes in a container of the vehicle, based on at least one collect decision rule, in order to temporarily store produced exhaust fumes and
- releasing the collected exhaust fumes from the container, based on at least one release decision rule.
Pollution handling system for a vehicle driven by fuel causing emission of pollutants in exhaust fumes from the vehicle, the system comprising:
- a controller of the system, and
- a container for collecting exhaust fumes, wherein the container is provided with an inlet unit for receiving the exhaust fumes and an outlet unit for releasing the exhaust fumes, in order to temporarily store produced exhaust fumes, wherein
- the controller is configured to control the collecting of the exhaust fumes based on at least one collect decision rule, and to control the release of the collected exhaust fumes based on at least one release decision rule.
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