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Diesel engines are expected to remain in use for high power applications even with the rising fuel prices and environmental concern and the new laws imposed by government to reduce emissions. Unfortunately, diesel engines possess a bad reputation of producing higher PM and NOx emissions compared to gasoline engines. The present work describes the use of different additives to diesel or biodiesel fuel to reduce NOx emissions up to 22 % from the diesel and up to 47 % from the biodiesel fuels. This study is a preliminary investigation of the successful reduction of NO x emissions from diesel and from biodiesel fuels and forwards a strong argument that SNCR could reduce the NO x emissions from diesel engines in an efficient way when proper compounds are chosen to do the work.

The replacement of petrol derived fuels by biogenic fuels from renewable resources has become of worldwide interest and is scientifically investigated for its environmental costs and benefits. Biodiesel has been proven as a suitable alternative to fossil diesel fuel and blends up to 20% biodiesel with common diesel fuel are a strongly pushed policy in the U.S.A. and the EU. To investigate the influence of blends on the emissions and possible health effects, we performed a series of studies with several engines (Euro 0, III and IV) measuring regulated and non-regulated exhaust compounds and determining their mutagenic effects using the Bacterial Reverse Mutation Assay (Ames-Test) according to OECD Guideline 471. Emissions of blends showed an approximate linear dependence on the blend composition, in particular when regulated emissions are considered. However, a negative effect of blends was observed with respect to mutagenicity of the exhaust gas emissions.