Gasoline & Diesel Emission Control

PIDC produces innovative materials that allow automobiles and diesels to run cleaner and meet increasingly stringent regulations worldwide. The Company’s materials are key ingredients in enhancing catalytic activity and durability in three-way catalytic converters used in today’s vehicles.

Automotive
Automotive catalysts remove harmful particulates from exhaust systems. The catalytic converter is one of most important pollution abatement devices ever invented, and is a key component in 80% of new cars around the world. Without the converters, the air we breathe in metropolitan areas would long ago have become highly polluted, negatively impacting the health of millions of people. Newly developed materials are able to endure the extreme high temperature and rough conditions experienced by converters designed to reduce cold start emissions.

Similar catalytic devices can also be used to reduce emissions in two-wheel vehicles, motorcycles, scooters and mopeds. The small two and four-stroke engines that power these vehicles are a primary source of the air pollutants that grip many Asian cities in an unhealthy haze.

Diesel
From New York to Hong Kong, emissions from diesel-powered buses and trucks are a major contributor to poor air quality. Buses, trucks, power generators and other equipment that run on diesel fuel are the source of harmful hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) that pollute the air and are linked to respiratory diseases. Diesel engines, however, are exceptional workhorses and power most buses and trucks because they are fuel efficient, cheaper to maintain, reliable, and easy to repair.

Diesel passenger cars and other light-duty diesel vehicles have also become an increasingly popular choice for consumers around the world. The diesel engine’s excellent fuel economy, performance and long-term durability have been at the heart of that growing popularity. The demand for lower-emission diesel cars is a result of both tighter regulations and growing consumer interest in cleaner vehicles.

Emissions from diesel engines are of increasing concern to government regulators around the world. New US regulations will require reductions of more than 90% in nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) emitted from new diesel engines by 2007. European regulations require NOx reductions of 60% and PM reductions of more than 75% by 2008 and new legislation in China for emission controls are quickly being implemented.

Today’s manufacturers of diesel equipment must comply with environmental regulations and promote reliable and cost-effective technologies. Meeting this growing need PIDC is proud to be a supplier of cost-efficient materials to leading diesel-emission-control system providers. Thus, PIDC is armed and strongly positioned both in terms of expertise/knowledge and product line to cater to this ever changing market.