SAE Transactions, Vol. 102, Section 3: JOURNAL OF ENGINES (1993), pp. 549-560 (12 pages) A new design of a self-cleaning diesel particulate trap is discussed herein. Past research at Northeastern ...

Diesel particulate traps, when heavily loaded with soot to assure complete incineration, are susceptible to thermal stress failure when regenerated under conditions of high exhaust temperature ...

For contractors operating fleets of vehicles it appears 2007 will offer models that sacrifice miles per gallon to improve the environment, and offer a variety of technological improvements that will ...

For owners and operators of stationary diesel engines, exhaust-stream diesel particulate matter (DPM) has become a growing concern. DPM causes a variety of respiratory ailments and has been linked to ...

RIVERSIDE — In an effort to help improve air quality in one ofthe nation’s most polluted regions, the county Board of Supervisorsapproved a plan Tuesday to reduce the carbon and sulfur emissionsof its ...

London, England - A major UK fleet operator has warned drivers to take care of the particulate traps fitted to some modern diesel engines. Lombard Vehicle Management said it had come across problems ...

Volkswagen has yet to get modifications to reduce the emissions of TDI diesel cars with illegal "defeat device" software approved by U.S. regulators. But while it continues to wrestle with that ...

The corner of this J&J dump body was cut out to accommodate the large muffler/catalytic converter assembly used with the Caterpillar engine in this International truck. Come 2007, Cat and most other ...

There are signs that Volkswagen could be soon to break the new technology diesel drought in the United States. The Car Connection (TCC) website says the V10 turbo-diesel version of the new Touareg SUV ...