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Eaton and Tenneco partner to produce new, integrated exhaust thermal management system to meet coming lower NOx standards

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Power management company Eaton and Tenneco announced a joint development agreement between Eaton’s Vehicle Group and Tenneco’s Clean Air business group to produce an integrated exhaust thermal management system that will enable commercial truck and light vehicle manufacturers to meet upcoming emissions regulations.

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U. Houston-led project looking for new exhaust treatment catalysts for low-temperature lean-burn combustion engines

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million project to find new catalytic materials that work at lower exhaust temperatures, allowing automakers to build vehicles that operate more efficiently while retaining the ability to clean emissions before they leave the tailpipe. Catalytic converters clean vehicle exhaust into nitrogen, water and carbon dioxide.

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SwRI and USTA researchers to develop a novel catalyst for low-temperature SCR

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced funding for a new joint research projects to advance clean emission technologies. Future fuel economy standards will result in lower exhaust gas temperatures and limit the use of high-temperature SCR.

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Mazda introduces HAZUMI concept along with new 1.5-liter SKYACTIV-D diesel

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The advent of stricter emissions regulations leads to a delay in combustion until after TDC (with a lower cylinder pressure and temperature), although this causes fuel economy to worsen. The result is cleaner combustion with low NO x and soot emissions. The SKYACTIV diesels feature a low compression ratio of 14.0:1 Source: Mazda.

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UK launches accreditation scheme for clean vehicle retrofit technologies

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CVRAS provides a single validation standard for any emission technology to meet the standards set out in the government’s Clean Air Zone Framework for England. Data from the three tailpipe emissions tests will be averaged to yield a mean result. The scheme will also provide the backbone of future retrofit funding.

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U. Mich, Ford team studies effect of ethanol in reducing PM from DISI engines; insights into fueling strategies to reduce soot

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A team from the University of Michigan and Ford’s Research and Advanced Engineering group in Dearborn has studied the effects of ethanol on reducing particulate emissions from a direct injection spark ignition (DISI) engine by comparing neat anhydrous ethanol with a baseline fuel of reference grade gasoline (indolene). Ford’s EcoBoost).

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