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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedTwo ways to burn particulates.(News)(Brief Article)
Automotive News Europe, October, 2003
With additive
Additive pumped into the engine mixes with the diesel fuel causing a chemical reaction to the fuel that allows the soot to be burned off in the particulate filter.
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Disadvantages: filter must be cleaned regularly; early generations of the filter had to be replaced after 80,000km; fuel consumption increases by up to 2 ...
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