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As part of a January 2019 settlement, Fiat Chrysler recalled and repaired approximately 100,000 automobiles equipped with a 3.0-litre V6 EcoDiesel engine having a prohibited defeat device, pay $311 million in total civil penalties to US regulators and CARB, pay $72.5 million for state civil penalties, implement corporate governance reforms, and ...
Diesel particulate filter of a school bus A diesel particulate filter (top left) in a Peugeot Off-road – DPF installation. A diesel particulate filter (DPF) is a device designed to remove diesel particulate matter [broken anchor] or soot from the exhaust gas of a diesel engine. [1] [2]
The National Clean Diesel Campaign focuses on the health of Americans due to the exhaust emissions from diesel engines; specifically nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. It includes regulations for new diesel engines, voluntary programs for the existing diesel fleet, diesel emission reduction technologies and strategies, and current ...
Engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. has agreed to pay a $1.675 billion penalty for allegedly installing "defeat devices" on approximately 1 million pickup trucks to cheat emissions tests.
The complaint, seeking up to $46 billion in penalties for Clean Air Act violations, [298] alleged that Volkswagen equipped certain 2.0 and 3.0-litre diesel-engine vehicles with emissions cheating software, causing NO x pollution to exceed EPA's standards during normal driving conditions. It further claimed that Volkswagen entities provided ...
A 1.5-liter and a 10-liter AdBlue container Hino truck and its SCR next to the diesel particulate filter (DPF) with regeneration process by the late fuel injection to control exhaust temperature to burn off soot [1] [2] Passenger car using an AdBlue pump. Diesel exhaust fluid (DEF; also known as AUS 32 and sometimes marketed as AdBlue [3]) is a ...
BlueTEC is Mercedes-Benz Group's marketing name for engines equipped with advanced NO x reducing technology for vehicle emissions control in diesel-powered vehicles.The technology in BlueTec vehicles includes a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system that uses diesel exhaust fluid, and a system of NOx adsorbers the automaker calls DeNO x, which uses an oxidizing catalytic converter and ...
The urea solution is also referred to as diesel exhaust fluid (DEF). Diesel exhaust contains relatively high levels of particulate matter. Catalytic converters remove only 20–40% of PM so particulates are cleaned up by a soot trap or diesel particulate filter (DPF). In the U.S., all on-road light, medium, and heavy-duty diesel-powered ...