Patent ID: 7771508

Claim:
A method for the treatment of air, in particular for pneumatic brake systems of utility vehicles, comprising the acts of: feeding compressed air to a compressed air storage tank through an air dryer; initiating a regeneration of the air dryer using regeneration air from the compressed air storage tank being conducted through the air dryer and discharged from there via a discharge valve; calculating a theoretically required regeneration air quantity Q Reg,th ; detecting a presence of condensate in a region downstream of the air dryer; in the absence of detected condensate, carrying out a regeneration using the theoretically required regeneration air quantity Q Reg,th , and; in the presence of detected condensate, carrying out a regeneration using a corrected required regeneration air quantity Q Reg,corr , the corrected required regeneration air quantity Q Reg,corr being greater than the theoretically required regeneration air quantity Q Reg,th .