The invention recovers the high heat energy generated by an exhaust gas clarification catalytic converter intermediately disposed in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, as electrical energy without causing an increase in exhaust resistance....

An exhaust gas released from the exhaust gas heat exchanger (9) is conveyed into the inlet of a bend (32) communicated to a silencer (31). The exhaust gas mixed with the condensed water is upwardly passed as a mixture fluid through a passage (322) and forc...