An engine exhaust gas treatment system, comprising an exhaust gas dust removal system and an exhaust gas ozone purification system. The exhaust gas dust removal system comprises an exhaust gas dust removal system inlet, an exhaust gas dust removal system outlet, and an exhaust gas electric field apparatus (1021). The exhaust gas electric field apparatus (1021) comprises an exhaust gas electric field apparatus inlet, an exhaust gas electric field apparatus outlet, an exhaust gas dust removal electric field cathode (10212), and an exhaust gas dust removal electric field anode (10211). The exhaust gas dust removal electric field cathode (10212) and the exhaust gas dust removal electric field anode (10211) are configured to produce an exhaust gas ionized dust removal electric field. The engine exhaust gas treatment system is able to effectively remove particles in engine exhaust gas, and the purification treatment effect for engine exhaust gas is good.

An internal combustion engine (1), with an engine regulating device (3) and an exhaust gas aftertreatment device (16) with an SCR catalytic converter (4) for the reduction of at least one NO.sub.x component, and with a catalytic converter regulating device (6), wherein the engine regulating device (3) is prescribed a target value for an NO.sub.x mean value of the NO.sub.x component of the exhaust gases, which mean value results at an outlet point (7) of the exhaust gas aftertreatment device (16) in relation to a predefinable time period, and the engine regulating device (3) is configured at least in one operating mode to continuously calculate an NO.sub.x reference value for the catalytic converter regulating device (6) with consideration of No.sub.x components which have already been emitted and the predefined target value, which reference value is selected in such a way that the predefined target value results at the outlet point of the exhaust gas aftertreatment device (16) at the end of the predefinable time period when the calculated NO.sub.x reference value of the catalytic converter regulating device (6) is fed as NO.sub.x setpoint value to the regulating means.

An exhaust gas treatment device for arranging in an exhaust gas section of a motor vehicle that includes a heating disk which is assigned to an exhaust gas aftertreatment component. The heating disk is configured by way of a flat heating element and a holder which is coupled to the former. The holder extends over the cross-sectional area of the heating element, and the holder itself is of disk-shaped configuration. The inner face of the heating disk is configured by way of arcuate spokes which are coupled irregularly to one another.

An exhaust-gas treatment device for arrangement in an exhaust system of a motor vehicle, having a heating element, which is assigned to an exhaust-gas aftertreatment component, for example, a catalytic converter. The heating element is formed by a heating conductor and by a holder coupled to said heating conductor, wherein the holder extends over the cross-sectional area of the heating element, and the holder is formed by a lattice-like structure, wherein the lattice-like structure is formed by arcuate spokes which are coupled to one another in an irregular manner, wherein the heating conductor and the holder have a basin-like configuration as viewed in longitudinal section in an exhaust-gas flow direction.

A system includes an aftertreatment system coupled to an engine, a heater, at least one sensor configured to determine an exhaust gas temperature, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is structured to determine whether the exhaust gas temperature is at or below a predefined threshold temperature; provide a first command to control the heater in response to the exhaust gas temperature being at or below the predefined threshold temperature; selectively provide a second command to increase the exhaust gas temperature; and coordinate the first and second commands, where the first command is provided followed by the second command only if the predefined threshold temperature is not attained by the first command.

An exhaust purification system includes an electrochemical reactor provided in an engine exhaust passage; a bypass passage bypassing the electrochemical reactor; a flow control valve controlling an amount of exhaust gas, discharged from an engine body, flowing into the electrochemical reactor and the bypass passage; and a control device controlling the flow control valve. The electrochemical reactor includes a holding material holding NO.sub.X or HC and is configured so as to purify NO.sub.X or HC held at the holding material if energized. The control device controls the flow control valve so as to control the amount of exhaust gas flowing into the electrochemical reactor so that a temperature of the electrochemical reactor is maintained at less than a desorption start temperature where NO.sub.X or HC starts to be desorbed from the holding material.

A transfer module for transferring power to a non-thermal plasma generator includes a power cable; a first epoxy; a second epoxy; an interface between the first epoxy and the second epoxy; and a well; the power cable including a conductor for conducting electrical power and an insulation layer for surrounding a portion of the conductor; the first epoxy being located within the well to surround the insulation layer; the second epoxy being located within the well to surround the conductor located within the well; the second epoxy being located outside the well to surround the conductor located outside the well.

Systems and methods for treating automotive vehicle emissions on board an automotive vehicle include the use of waste heat recovery, electrochemical water splitting, phototcatalytic water splitting, and selective catalytic reduction. Waste heat recovery is used to power electrochemical water splitting, or photocatalytic water splitting. Photons collected from a solar panel are used in photocatalytic water splitting, or in photo-assisted selective catalytic reduction. Hydrogen gas generated by water splitting is used in conjunction with catalytic reduction units to catalytically reduce NOx in an engine exhaust gas.

Exhaust gas is treated onboard a vehicle. Solar energy is converted into electricity, which is used to power an electrochemical cell mounted onboard the vehicle. Oxygen and hydrogen are produced by the electrochemical cell. Heat and the oxygen produced by the electrochemical cell are provided to a particulate matter filter onboard the vehicle, thereby oxidizing particulate matter disposed on the particulate matter filter.

An electric gas flow heater has a grid-like heating element through which exhaust gas can flow axially, and which forms an electrical resistance heating. The grid-like heating element includes radially successive layers of band-like material, wherein the layers, in an axial view of the heating element, are bent in an undulating manner and include valleys and peaks. The layers that are located between the radially outermost layer and the radially innermost layer are attached by their peaks and valleys to the respectively radially adjacent layer, so that flow-through openings are formed between the layers. The wavelengths of the layers are increasing radially outwards.