Emissions from diesel engines are of increasing concern to
government regulators around the world because they have been
linked to respiratory diseases and other human health impacts. BASF
Catalysts’s catalytic soot filter technology reduces particulates
and other emissions from diesel passenger car engines.
This technology draws on BASF Catalysts’s expertise in both
auto-emission catalysts and catalytic soot filters for diesel
trucks and buses. It can be combined with a diesel oxidation
precatalyst to destroy hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and soot
created by diesel engines.
BASF Catalysts’s catalytic soot filter traps and destroys the
carbon particulates or “soot” produced by diesel engines. The
filter features a proprietary coating that enables the device to
burn the soot during normal driving conditions, thereby
regenerating it. This regeneration process can be initiated by a
car’s engine-management system and need not require fuel additives
or any action by the car owner.