A Quantitative Study of Fuel Efficiency of Diesel Vehicles with Diesel Particulate Filter in Repeated Test Cycles

Noguchi, Shihoko; Sogawa, Yasunori; Kawaguchi, Hiroshi; Kono, Naoki

doi:10.4271/2012-01-1704

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Pre-DPF water injection technique for pressure drop control in loaded wall-flow diesel particulate filters

et al. 2015

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ElsevierBermúdez Tamarit, VR.; Serrano Cruz, JR.; Piqueras Cabrera, P.; Garcia Afonso, O. (2015 AbstractWall-flow type diesel particulate filter (DPF) is a required aftertreatment system for particle emission abatement and standards fulfilment in Diesel engines. However, the DPF use involves an important flow restriction, especially as the substrate gets soot and ash loaded. It gives as a result the increase of the exhaust back-pressure and hence a fuel consumption penalty. The increasing damage of fuel consumption with DPF soot loading leads to the need of the regeneration process. Usually based on active strategies, this process involves an additional fuel penalty but prevents from excessive DPF pressure drop and ensures secure soot burnt out.Under this context, new solutions are required to improve the state of the art DPF soot loading to pressure drop ratio. This paper presents a novel technique based on pre-DPF water injection to reduce the DPF pressure drop under soot loading conditions by disrupting its dependence on soot/ash loading. It provides benefits to engine fuel economy and also higher flexibility for DPF regeneration and maintenance. The work covers a test campaign performed in a passenger car turbocharged Diesel engine equipped with a wall-flow DPF. The main objective is to describe the technique, to provide a figure of its potential for pressure drop control and fuel consumption reduction. The results of the experiments also confirm soot and ash loading capacity increase and demonstrate the lack of negative effects on filtration efficiency and active and passive regeneration.

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