Characterization of particulate matter from direct injected gasoline engines
Journal article, 2013

The reactivity and reaction kinetics of particulate matter (PM) from direct injected gasoline (GDI) engines has been studied by O2 and NO2 based temperature programmed and isothermal step-response experiments, and the PM nano-structure has been characterized using HRTEM. The reactivity of the PM samples collected in filters during on-road driving was found to increase in the following order: Printex U\diesel\gasoline PI & gasoline DI\ethanol for O2 based combustion. The activation energies for O2 and NO2 based oxidation of PM collected from a GDI engine in an engine bench set-up was estimated to 146 and 71 kJ/mol respectively, which is comparable to corresponding values reported for diesel and model soot. Similar nano-structure features (crystallites plane dimensions, curvature and relative orientation) as observed for diesel soot were observed for gasoline PM.

Carbonaceous matter

Oxidation kinetics

Gasoline soot

Exhaust aftertreatment

Soot combustion

Particulate filter

Author

Carolin Wang-Hansen

Competence Centre for Catalysis (KCK)

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical Reaction Engineering

Per Ericsson

Saab

Björn Lundberg

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical Reaction Engineering

Magnus Skoglundh

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical Reaction Engineering

Competence Centre for Catalysis (KCK)

Per-Anders Carlsson

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical Reaction Engineering

Competence Centre for Catalysis (KCK)

Bengt Andersson

Competence Centre for Catalysis (KCK)

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical Reaction Engineering

Topics in Catalysis

1022-5528 (ISSN) 1572-9028 (eISSN)

Vol. 56 1-8 446-451

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Transport

Energy

Materials Science

Subject Categories

Chemical Process Engineering

Roots

Basic sciences

DOI

10.1007/s11244-013-9994-4

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