Urban Air Quality Improvements by Means of Vehicular Diesel Particle Filters

2008-01-0336

04/14/2008

Event
SAE World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
The project objective was to investigate the ultrafine solid particle emissions of the prevalent traffic, by performing field measurements at an urban traffic artery in Zurich/Switzerland. Subsequently, various scenarios were postulated to assess the potential of the diesel particle filters (DPF) to improve curbside air quality. Soot aerosols are known to be carcinogenic [1]. If all heavy-duty diesel vehicles were equipped with DPFs, then the number of particles emitted from the entire vehicle fleet could be reduced by 75 to 80%. For PM10, the curtailment scope is considerably lower, around 20%, because more than half of those emissions are not from the exhaust and therefore would not be filtered.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2008-01-0336
Pages
9
Citation
Imhof, D., Mayer, A., Legerer, F., and Wyser, M., "Urban Air Quality Improvements by Means of Vehicular Diesel Particle Filters," SAE Technical Paper 2008-01-0336, 2008, https://doi.org/10.4271/2008-01-0336.
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Published
Apr 14, 2008
Product Code
2008-01-0336
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English