A water recovery apparatus for a motor vehicle, for recovering water from ambient air, encompasses: a conveying conduit; a condenser device that is embodied to modify the absolute value of at least one dew-relevant state variable of a working gas delivered through the conveying conduit to the condenser device; a water discharge device that is embodied to discharge from the condenser device water condensed out of the working gas by the condenser device,
the conveying conduit being embodied to convey ambient air as the working gas to the condenser device, the water recovery apparatus is embodied to deliver working gas continuously to the condenser device.

An engine includes water injection valves that inject water to intake ports connected to a cylinder. A controller for the engine is configured to selectively execute, for each of the intake ports, a synchronous injection that causes the water injection valve to inject water only during a valve opening period of the intake valve and an asynchronous injection that causes the water injection valve to inject water during a valve closing period of the intake valve. The controller is configured to perform, when executing a synchronous/asynchronous concurrent injection in which the intake ports includes an intake port in which the synchronous injection is executed and an intake port in which the asynchronous injection is executed, a switching process of switching the intake port in which the asynchronous injection is executed.

An engine includes water injection valves that inject water to intake ports connected to a cylinder. A controller for the engine is configured to selectively execute, for each of the intake ports, a synchronous injection that causes the water injection valve to inject water only during a valve opening period of the intake valve and an asynchronous injection that causes the water injection valve to inject water during a valve closing period of the intake valve. The controller is configured to perform, when executing a synchronous/asynchronous concurrent injection in which the intake ports includes an intake port in which the synchronous injection is executed and an intake port in which the asynchronous injection is executed, a switching process of switching the intake port in which the asynchronous injection is executed.

A split cycle internal combustion engine comprising a compression cylinder accommodating a compression piston; a combustion cylinder accommodating a combustion piston; a crossover passage between the compression cylinder and the combustion cylinder arranged to provide working fluid to the combustion cylinder; a controller arranged to determine a peak temperature of combustion in the combustion cylinder based on a received indication of a peak temperature of combustion in the combustion cylinder; and a coolant system arranged to regulate a temperature of the working fluid supplied to the combustion cylinder; wherein, in response to determining that the peak temperature of combustion exceeds a selected threshold, the controller is configured to control the coolant system to regulate the temperature of the working fluid supplied to the combustion cylinder so that a peak temperature of combustion in the combustion cylinder is less than the selected threshold.

A device supplies water into a high-pressure fuel pump of a motor vehicle internal combustion engine, wherein the water is admixed to the fuel in the inlet region of the high-pressure fuel pump in a controlled manner by a metering valve, and wherein the device is designed to guide the water at least from a part of a supply line back to the storage container. When viewed in the flow direction from the storage container to the high-pressure fuel pump, a shut-off valve is provided in the supply line upstream of the metering valve, and the supply line is designed to elastically deformably change its volume in a line section positioned between the valves. In an operating method, wherein, after the parking of the motor vehicle in conditions that make it possible for the liquid that is at risk of freezing to freeze, and/or after delivery of the liquid to the high-pressure fuel pump, and with a suitably adjusted upstream fluid pressure, the metering valve is opened and remains open until a portion of the fluid in the section of the supply line leading from the metering valve to the high-pressure fuel pump flows out through the metering valve.

A method is provided for operating an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle, The internal combustion engine has at least one cylinder with a combustion chamber, a water injection unit with a tank and at least one injection nozzle for directly or indirectly injecting water into the combustion chamber, an exhaust gas system with at least one exhaust gas catalytic converter and a particulate filter device which has a particulate filter for filtering particles out of an exhaust gas flow guided in the exhaust gas system. A control unit is provide for a state monitoring process and for controlling the combustion in the cylinder.

A water injection device, in particular of an internal combustion engine, includes a water tank for storing water, a conveying element connected to the water tank for conveying water, at least one water injector connected to the conveying element for injecting water, and a water quality and water fill level detection device for detecting a quality of the water in the water tank and a fill level of the water tank.

A sparked reciprocating internal combustion two-stroke steam engine including an engine casing, a crankshaft rotatable about a crankshaft axis, a cylinder arranged inside the engine casing, a piston 1 arranged inside the cylinder to movably reciprocate along a reciprocating axis between a top dead center position distal from the crankshaft and a bottom dead center position proximal to the crankshaft and operatively connected to the crankshaft such that the reciprocating piston imparts a rotational movement to the crankshaft, a combustion chamber defined within the cylinder between the engine casing and a head of the piston opposite the crankshaft, an intake valve, an exhaust valve, a fuel injector to directly inject fuel into the combustion chamber, a water injector to directly inject water into the combustion chamber at a location below the top dead center position of the piston, and a spark plug, where the intake valve is in fluid connection with a compressed gaseous oxidizer supply configured to feed compressed gaseous oxidizer through the intake valve to the combustion chamber.

A sparked reciprocating internal combustion two-stroke steam engine including an engine casing, a crankshaft rotatable about a crankshaft axis, a cylinder arranged inside the engine casing, a piston 1 arranged inside the cylinder to movably reciprocate along a reciprocating axis between a top dead center position distal from the crankshaft and a bottom dead center position proximal to the crankshaft and operatively connected to the crankshaft such that the reciprocating piston imparts a rotational movement to the crankshaft, a combustion chamber defined within the cylinder between the engine casing and a head of the piston opposite the crankshaft, an intake valve, an exhaust valve, a fuel injector to directly inject fuel into the combustion chamber, a water injector to directly inject water into the combustion chamber at a location below the top dead center position of the piston, and a spark plug, where the intake valve is in fluid connection with a compressed gaseous oxidizer supply configured to feed compressed gaseous oxidizer through the intake valve to the combustion chamber.

A system for injecting an aqueous solution into an injection engine, includes: a tank for an aqueous solution, a circuit for supplying aqueous solution to the tank and a filter for filtering the aqueous solution, and a circuit for recirculating the aqueous solution. The injection system also includes recirculation of the aqueous solution, and is provided with an electrovalve including a first inlet connected to a filler neck of the tank, a second inlet connected to the recirculation circuit, and an outlet connected to the supply circuit. The filtration filter is arranged in the supply circuit and/or in the recirculation circuit.