Conversion efficiency of catalytic converter

S. K. Sharma, P. Goyal, R. K. Tyagi

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Abstract

Around 50 million vehicles are manufactured every year and over 700 million vehicles are used worldwide. Vehicle population is predictable to grow close to 1300 million by the year 2030. Automobile produced 10,037,168 short tons of nitrogen oxides and 59,383,083 short tons of carbon dioxide in 2008 alone. In the present scenario, air pollution generation from the mobile sources is a big problem in the world. The maximum quantity of air pollution is due to the emissions from Internal Combustion Engines. Combustion of pollutants released from the vehicular exhaust is one of the best approaches to decrease their attentiveness before their release to the atmosphere. The main attention of the work is the research of catalytic converter working effectiveness in used passenger cars. In this work the fuel which is used is commercial gasoline with blends and the testing is done in the passenger car. The testing is done in three ways: (1) with a new CatCoN [1000 km], (2) with an old CatCoN [55,000 km] and (3) without a CatCoN. After comparing the test results, it is concluded that the conversion efficiency of the catalytic converter decreases when the vehicle runs above 45,000 km. The best result of the exhaust gases is shown with a new catalytic converter.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)507-512
Number of pages6
JournalInternational Journal of Ambient Energy
Volume37
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Sep 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • catalytic converter
  • commercial gasoline
  • exhaust emission
  • passenger car

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