If you own a diesel car, chances are it's fitted with a Diesel Particulate Filter — DPF for short. They can be a source of problems but our guide will help you avoid them. How Diesel Particulate ...

Diesel particulate filters are one of the major additions to exhaust systems in recent years, and they are a blessing and a curse. Used since 2007 to meet EPA regulations, DPFs strip soot and ash from ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Since May 2000, PSA Peugeot Citroën has commercialized a wide range of diesel vehicles of different sizes (Peugeot 807, 607, 406 and 307; ...

Note: This is the third in a series that looks at the diesel particulate filter and maintenance best practices that an impact its lifecycle. The first installment, "Diesel coolant heaters boost DPF ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 113, Section 4: JOURNAL OF FUELS AND LUBRICANTS (2004), pp. 2046-2052 (7 pages) In this paper, a diesel particulate filter system which uses needle felt as filtering medium to ...

October 3, 2006 Over the years, we’ve often had emails from technology fans asking what motorsport has to do with our primarily advanced technology menu and our response is always that new technology ...

General Motors has been hard at work developing an aftertreatment system that incorporates an electrically heated diesel particulate filter. According to GM, this technology promises to cut the “fuel ...

We appear to be learning from our mistakes in aftertreatment system maintenance, but we still have a way to go before we’re at peace with the things. Strictly speaking, diesel particulate filters, ...

In recent years, a bigger focus has been put on the reduction of harmful pollutants emitted by cars. Diesel cars use what’s known as a DPF or ‘Diesel Particulate Filter’ to reduce air pollutants ...

No, because sooner or later checking the DPF will become part of the MoT and it is illegal in EC law anyway to remove any part of the emissions equipment of a car. So far this has not been enforced in ...