EXHAUST EMISSION

REDUCTION TECHNOLOGIES
FOR DIESEL ENGINES

Pankaj gupta
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Stress and vibration

INTRODUCTION

Diesel engines have high thermal efficiency, lower fuel consumption,

lower maintenance cost and lower CO2 emissions compared with
equivalent gasoline engines.

Higher emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matter

(PM) have been noticed as major problems.

These emissions cause environmental pollution and are potentially

harmful to human health.

Undesirable emissions also include unburned hydrocarbons (HC) and

carbon monoxide (CO).

COMPOSITION OF DIESEL ENGINE

EXHAUST EMISSIONS [1]

OBJECTIVES

To review the major technologies being used for diesel engine

emission reductions, recent developments in this area and future
scope of these technologies.

To give an insight about the practical limitations and challenges

in the application of emission reduction technologies.

To explore emission reduction strategies in order to comply with

the stringent Euro norms.

To suggest some of the key parameters to be considered while

arriving at right emission control strategy.

CONCLUSIONS DRAWN FROM

LITERATURE REVIEW

Growing concern for human health and environment led to the

formation of stringent emission standards such as Euro V and
Euro VI.
Engine manufacturers are forced to implement latest emission
reduction technologies in order to comply with the Euro norms.
There are various emission reduction technologies available for
emission reduction.
No common approach for emission control emerged from the
literature review.
It is likely that a combination of the emission reduction
technologies would be able to comply with the Euro V and Euro
VI norms.

EMISSION STANDARDS FOR DIESEL

ENGINE PASSENGER CARS[2]

MAJOR EMISSION REDUCTION

TECHNOLOGIES
Emission Reduction System

Emissions Reduced

Exhaust Gas Recirculation

(EGR)

NOx

Diesel Oxidation Catalysts

(DOC)

HC, CO

Diesel Particulate Filters

(DPF)

PM

Selective Catalytic Reduction

(SCR)

NOx

Lean Nox Trap

(LNT)

NOx

EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION[3]

EGR is an effective method for NOx control. EGR has following
effects :-

The dilution or oxygen

displacement effect

The thermal effect

The chemical effect

Most of the NOx reduction is due to the dilution effect, with a

small additional contribution due to the chemical effect and
thermal effect.

TYPES OF EGR[4]

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON EGR[5]

RESULTS

Thermal efficiency was found to have slightly increased with EGR

at lower engine loads.
At higher engine loads, the thermal efficiency remains unaffected
by EGR.

These graphs show that HC and CO emissions increase with

increasing EGR.

The degree of reduction in NOx at higher loads is higher.

Higher smoke opacity of the exhaust is observed when the engine is

operated with EGR compared to without EGR. The variation in the
smoke opacity level at high loads was higher compared to that at
lower loads.

As the EGR rate is increased,

volumetric efficiency decreases.

Carbon deposits on the various parts of the engine operated with EGR
system is significantly more than that of engine operated without
EGR.

The higher carbon deposits in the EGR system seem to be because of

higher soot formation.

DIESEL PARTICULATE FILTERS[6]

DPF is employed in diesel engines to physically trap the

particulate matter (PM) in exhaust gas.
A wall flow DPF is most common type.

It consists of large number of channels, with alternate ends of

channel matrix plugged.
The walls are made up of ceramic filtering material such as
silicon carbide or cordierite.

PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH DPFs

Traps
are
effective
in
controlling the solid fraction of
PMs, but may have limited
effectiveness, or be totally
ineffective, in controlling the
non-solid fractions of PM,
such as the SOF or sulphate
particulates.
DPFs also causes an increase
in exhaust back pressure which
in turn increases the BSFC.

DPFs can achieve up to 90% PM reduction in certain conditions.

SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION[7]

The system uses a

metallic or ceramic
wash-coated catalyzed
substrate.
Least affected by sulphur
content of fuel.
In addition to Nox, SCR
reduce HC emissions up
to 80% and PM
emissions up to 30%.
On board requirement
of urea reduces its
utilization.

Both Zeolite based catalysts show better high temperature

conversion than the conventional vanadium based catalyst.

V SCR - Vanadium based catalyst

Catalyst A Copper zeolite catalyst
Catalyst B Iron zeolite catalyst

LEAN NOx TRAP[9]

Oxidising NO to NO2 over a
precious metal catalyst such as
platimun

Storing NO2 in an adjacent

alkaline earth oxide trapping
site (such as BaO) as a nitrate.

When the storage media

reaches its capacity, it must be
regenerated.

DESULPHURIZATION

The durability of LNTs is

directly linked to sulphur
removal by regeneration.
Sulphur is removed from the
trap by periodic high
temperature excursions
under reducing conditions, a
procedure called DeSOx.

DIESEL OXIDATION CATALYST[10]

A diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC)

functions by oxidising CO and any
unburnt HC into CO2 & water over
a platinum group metal.

DOCs are able to remove soluble

organic fraction (SOF) of PM.

A diesel oxidation catalyst consists of a stainless steel canister

that contains a honeycomb structure called a substrate. Substrate
may be made of ceramic material or metal foil.
The interior surfaces are coated with catalytic metals such as
platinum and/or palladium.

CONCLUSIONS

EGR is an effective method of reducing NOx emissions but it

aggravates the trade-off between NOX and particulate emissions,
especially at high loads.
Cooled EGR gives lower thermal efficiency than hot EGR but
makes possible lower NOX emissions.
The advantage of using EGR and DPF is that no special fuelling
infrastructure is required, however the major disadvantage is the
fuel consumption penalty (approx. 3%) incurred due to the
incomplete combustion from EGR and exhaust gas back pressure
in from DPF.
SCR is the most promising technology and could be anticipated
as a future technology for emission control.

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