Browse Publications Technical Papers 2022-01-0490
2022-03-29

Assessing the Importance of Injector Cleanliness in Minimising Particulate Emissions in Gasoline Direct Injection Engines 2022-01-0490

Injector fouling is an important contributory factor to particulate matter (PM) emissions in Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) engines. Several publications have emerged in recent years which acknowledge the benefits of injector cleanliness, but others claim that high levels of Deposit Control Additive (DCA) could have detrimental effects that outweigh the benefits of the augmented cleaning potential.
The paper is divided into two parts: The first part contains a critical review of the literature linking injector cleanliness and particulate matter emissions, and studies assessing the impact of higher treat rates of additives. The second part of the paper describes new evidence of the beneficial effects of DCAs, in the form of several separate (previously unpublished) studies, using both engines and vehicles. In this newly reported work, various DCA treat rates were employed, and some of the fuels had measured UWG levels well in excess of 50 mg/100 mL. Higher treat rates of DCAs were found to be beneficial in controlling PM emissions across a range of scenarios, including, critically, in reducing PM emissions from a vehicle as found from the market. There was no evidence to suggest that fuels which have high UWG content as a result of employing higher treat rates of DCA give rise to increased PN emissions.

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