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Old 03-19-2013, 06:00 AM   #44 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Air-Hybrid View Post
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.
No, that is not at all where the question was leading, at least I do not think so, because I do not have any idea what all of that means!

Big words make me sleepy...

"Light-off" is the operating temperature?

What is the relationship between levels of incompletely-burnt hydrocarbons and overall temperature, regarding catalytic converter functionability?
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