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Originally Posted by Xist
At what temperature is a catalytic converter designed to work?
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Several hundred degrees Celsius, I imagine.
But (and I assume this is where the question is leading), the ability once hot of the Cat' to remain in the "light-off" temperature zone is dependant on how the levels of incompletely burnt HCs in the exhaust gas as well as it's overall temperature.
With a correctly designed system that includes a bypass valve, a turbo-generator should be perfectly capable of operating effectively without overly cooling the cat' downstream.