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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedFiat hopes to pass Euro 5 without NOx converter; Researchers like new electronic system for valve actuation.(News)(Fiat Research Center )(Brief Article)
Automotive News Europe, January, 2004
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Italian researchers are developing a new way to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions.
The Fiat Research Center (CRF) has created a variable-valve system that could help automakers fulfill Euro 5 emission requirements for diesel engines without the need of a catalytic converter for NOx.
CRF calls its new technology Uniair.
It is an electronically controlled, hydraulic valve-variable actuation system.
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For every cylinder in every cycle Uniair allows a valve to be actuated once, twice or not at all.
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