The loading of diesel particulate filters (DPFs) entails the need of trap regeneration by particulate combustion, whose efficiency and frequency are somehow affected by the way soot is deposited along the channels. Great efforts are thus spent to improve the understanding of the filtration process of DPFs, aimed at obtaining a deeper insight into the relationship between engine performance and filter loading so as to take advantage of this insight for DPF design and optimization purposes. Small lab-scale 300 cpsi DPF samples were loaded downstream the Diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) in an ad hoc designed reactor capable of hosting five samples with part of the entire flow produced by an automotive diesel engine at the 2500 rpm x 8 BMEP operating condition, selected to be representative as one of the critical engine points of the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC). Soot layer thickness was estimated by means of Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) observations after sample sectioning at progressive locations, obtained through a procedure defined not to affect the distribution of the soot inside the filter and to enable estimation of the actual soot thickness along the channel length. This is a pre-requisite to get suitable data for the validation of the DPF models required for trap design and optimisation.

New tool for experimental analysis of diesel particulate filter loading / Fino, Debora; Russo, Nunzio; Millo, Federico; Vezza, DAVIDE SIMONE; Ferrero, F; Chianale, A.. - In: TOPICS IN CATALYSIS. - ISSN 1022-5528. - STAMPA. - 52 (13-20):(2009), pp. 2083-2087. [10.1007/s11244-009-9393-z]

New tool for experimental analysis of diesel particulate filter loading

FINO, DEBORA;RUSSO, Nunzio;MILLO, Federico;VEZZA, DAVIDE SIMONE;
2009

Abstract

The loading of diesel particulate filters (DPFs) entails the need of trap regeneration by particulate combustion, whose efficiency and frequency are somehow affected by the way soot is deposited along the channels. Great efforts are thus spent to improve the understanding of the filtration process of DPFs, aimed at obtaining a deeper insight into the relationship between engine performance and filter loading so as to take advantage of this insight for DPF design and optimization purposes. Small lab-scale 300 cpsi DPF samples were loaded downstream the Diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) in an ad hoc designed reactor capable of hosting five samples with part of the entire flow produced by an automotive diesel engine at the 2500 rpm x 8 BMEP operating condition, selected to be representative as one of the critical engine points of the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC). Soot layer thickness was estimated by means of Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) observations after sample sectioning at progressive locations, obtained through a procedure defined not to affect the distribution of the soot inside the filter and to enable estimation of the actual soot thickness along the channel length. This is a pre-requisite to get suitable data for the validation of the DPF models required for trap design and optimisation.
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