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AssigneeVolvo Personvagnar AB & Engelhard Corp.
InventorsLars Greger, Göran Wirmark, Ingemar Gottberg, Ronald M. Heck, Jeffrey B. Hoke, Terence C. Poles, Wayne M. Rudy
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An assembly, a method and a motor vehicle for cleaning ambient air in the vicinity of an internal combustion engine (102) having combustion air inlet means (103) and energy emitting means (104)are disclosed. The assembly (101) further includes adsorbent means (105) for adsorbing at least one pollutant when in a first mode of operation and for desorbing the pollutant when in a second mode of operation. The adsorbent means have an inlet (106) for polluted ambient air (107, 107′) and an outlet (108) for cleaned ambient air (109, 109′). Furthermore, the assembly (101) includes a pollutant conduit (110) through which the desorbed pollutant is transferred from the adsorbent means (105) to the combustion air inlet means (103) when in the second mode of operation, and the adsorbent means (105) are arranged for being brought into the second mode of operation by means of energy supplied from the energy emitting means (104).
An assembly for cleaning ambient air in the vicinity of an internal combustion engine, said internal combustion engine having combustion air inlet means for providing air for internal combustion of an organic fuel resulting in an exhaust gas, energy emitting means for emitting energy, said assembly further comprising adsorbent means for adsorbing at least one pollutant when in a first mode of operation and for desorbing said pollutant when in a second mode of operation, said adsorbent means having an inlet for polluted ambient air comprising said pollutant and an outlet for cleaned ambient air cleaned from said pollutant, the assembly (101;
A method for cleaning ambient air in the vicinity of an internal combustion engine, comprising:
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