aLaboratoire Réactivité de Surface, CNRS UMR 7609, Case 178, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
bRenault SA, Technocentre Renault, 1 avenue du golf, 78280 Guyancourt, France
Abstract:
To comply with the new regulations on particulate matter, car manufacturers more and more commonly use diesel particulate filters (DPF). The working of these systems needs to periodically burn soot that has been accumulated during the loading of the DPF. This paper describes the kinetics of the non-catalytic and catalytic oxidation of real diesel soot with oxygen. From these experiments, mechanisms for catalyzed and non-catalyzed soot oxidation have been proposed.