Diesel Pushers, Do The New Ones Smell?
My brother's wife has asthma which is triggered by the smell of diesel exhaust. She does fine near the small Sprinter diesel based motor homes, the newer ones that have the current-day catalytic conv...
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JumboJet wrote:And this is the reason you should not rely on forums for your scientific facts. I've rarely heard such a ridiculous claim in my life.
About the particulate filters (DPF) - during needed cycles, additional fuel is sent into the exhaust stream to "clean" the DPF. In other words, for a few minutes/miles, the diesel soot particles are emitted into the atmosphere. You can never completely burn up a solid. Maybe break up the particles into smaller particles and burn any gases out that may be present. Solids will always remain solids.
No, solids will NOT always remain solids. They can be turned into liquids, gels, and gases -- even plasma. Ice can be turned into water which could be turned into water vapor. Furthermore, it can be broken into hydrogen and oxygen with twice as much Hydrogen as Oxygen produced (H2O) and it will forever remain a gas.
Likewise, carbon, the chief component of hydrocarbons (aka fuel) can also be turned into carbon dioxide which is certainly a gas and will remain a gas until some plant extracts it and turns it back into a hydrocarbon using the suns energy and photosynthesis.
So don't believe me and certainly don't believe the blather you read on the web. Fuel and solids can be turned into gasses. But that doesn't mean it's good or bad.
