{"id":3984,"date":"2011-03-28T10:25:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2011-03-26T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T17:29:46","slug":"things-i-learned-today-selective-catalytic-reduction-and-diesel-exhaust-fluid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/28\/things-i-learned-today-selective-catalytic-reduction-and-diesel-exhaust-fluid\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Learned Today: Selective Catalytic Reduction and Diesel Exhaust Fluid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/scr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3985\" title=\"scr\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/scr-200x157.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/scr-200x157.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/scr-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/scr.png 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> I noticed mention of Diesel Exhaust Fluid in a Northern Tool catalog. Apparently, there&#8217;s a new emissions reduction technology that is being implemented that reduces diesel emmisions dramatically and improves fuel efficiency by 3%. It&#8217;s being deployed (mandated by the EPA?) in the US starting in 2010 light trucks and big rigs. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumminsfiltration.com\/html\/en\/products\/fuel\/diesel_emission\/def_webinar_video.html\">webinar description<\/a> by Cummins about the technology. The webinar, and the couple other sources I found bandies about phrases like &#8220;near zero emissions&#8221; and &#8220;5% better fuel economy&#8221; &#8220;reducing NOx to near-zero levels&#8221;. It&#8217;s a bother to fill another fuel-related fluid, but the industry seems to be behind this.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a nearly worthless industry website about \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.factsaboutscr.com\">Selective Catalytic Reduction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed mention of Diesel Exhaust Fluid in a Northern Tool catalog. Apparently, there&#8217;s a new emissions reduction technology that is being implemented that reduces diesel emmisions dramatically and improves fuel efficiency by 3%. It&#8217;s being deployed (mandated by the EPA?) in the US starting in 2010 light trucks and big rigs. Here&#8217;s a webinar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}