Emissions from a Diesel Engine using Fe-based Fuel Additives and a Sintered Metal Filtration System.

ABSTRACT: A series of laboratory tests were conducted to assess the effects of Fe-containing fuel additives on aerosols emitted by a diesel engine retrofitted with a sintered metal filter (SMF) system. Emission measurements performed upstream and downstream of the SMF system were compared, for cases when the engine was fueled with neat ultralow sulfur diesel (ULSD) and with ULSD treated with two formulations of additives containing Fe-based catalysts. The effects were assessed for four steady-state engine operating conditions and one transient cycle. The results showed that the SMF system reduced the average total number and surface area concentrations of aerosols by more than 100-fold. The total mass and elemental carbon results confirmed that the SMF system was indeed very effective in the removal

SUBMITTER: Bugarski AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4742401 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature