Diesel Truck Exhaust
Written by richhill
Thursday, 23 December 2010 09:27
The presence of diesel truck exhaust as a pollutant is well known, felt and seen on a regular basis by people in the urban and rural areas alike. The reason is because the use of the diesel engine is widespread in our civilization since it is the most efficient means of producing raw power to move items too heavy for manual labor.
Most people are well aware that diesel engines are the power plants behind the tractor trailers that are plowing down the highway. These are highly visible since they are seen nearly all the time, 24 hours a day.
The other sources that utilize this power plant are not as commonly thought of as polluters because they are not visually seen as often. These include all the freight trains, emergency backup generators, farm equipment like tractors, combines and the trucks used to haul the food items off the fields. Then there are all the construction equipment to reshape the land like bulldozers, planers, backhoes and dump trucks for building projects.
No matter what the application is for the diesel engine, the exhaust that is present are emitting particulates and gaseous pollutants into the air around them that the inhabitants are forced to breath.
Fortunately today, there is the technology to reduce the introduction of these harmful pollutants into the air. The diesel particulate filter (DPF) has been proven to reduce the soot and other solid material that were exiting the exhaust pipes o f the diesel engine by 80% to 100%.
Nothing can be done about past pollution sources, but today the DPF can be retrofitted on any unit that is powered by a diesel engine. This will improve the air that we all breathe significantly once its use is widespread.
The controlling of diesel truck exhaust and the pollutants it produces is possible. The only question is when will there be enough political motivation to make it happen.
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