Exhaust gas aftertreatment device
AssigneeVitesco Technologies GmbH
InventorsRolf BRÜCK, Peter HIRTH, Ines LIENOU LZEUTCHI
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Abstract
A device for the aftertreatment of exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, with an exhaust gas line, which is configured to feed the exhaust gas expelled from the internal combustion engine to at least one component for exhaust gas aftertreatment. The at least one adsorber for the temporary storage of hydrocarbons contained in the exhaust gas, a catalytic converter for the catalytic aftertreatment of the exhaust gas, an electrically heatable catalytic converter and a cracking catalytic converter for cracking long-chain hydrocarbons into shorter-chain hydrocarbons are arranged in the exhaust gas line.
Claims9
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A device for aftertreatment of exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, comprising:
- an exhaust gas line, which is configured to feed the exhaust gas expelled from the internal combustion engine to at least one component for exhaust gas aftertreatment, wherein arranged in the exhaust gas line are:
- at least one adsorber configured to temporarily store of hydrocarbons contained in the exhaust gas;
- a catalytic converter for catalytic aftertreatment of the exhaust gas;
- an electrically heatable catalytic converter;
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- a cracking catalytic converter configured to crack long-chain hydrocarbons into shorter-chain hydrocarbons.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.