KATALYTISCHES WÄRMEDÄMMSYSTEM FÜR MEHRBRENNSTOFFMOTOR

摘要

A method and system are provided for reducing tailpipe emissions of a lean burn, multi-fuel engine (20) by improving the efficiency of an oxidation catalyst (50) of the engine through avoiding unnecessary cooling of the catalyst. For instance, a lean burn, unthrottled dual fuel engine (20) may be configured to route exhaust gases away from a methane reducing catalyst (50) of the engine during periods of diesel-only operation. Those gases that could otherwise lead to undesired cooling of the methane reducing catalyst. The catalyst thus remains hotter and maintains higher conversion efficiencies than it would if gases were always exhausted through the methane reducing catalyst.