“…This mechanism appears to agree with many experimental findings that the presence of small amount of O 2 (e.g. <2%) is essential for HC-SCR (Lee et al, 1997;Captain et al, 1998;Shi et al, 2002), as shown in Figure 1. In parallel, the presence of O 2 will oxidize hydrocarbons, leading to lower selectivity of hydrocarbons toward NO x reduction.…”