View Single Post
Old 12-08-2009, 10:36 PM   #62 (permalink)
roflwaffle
Master EcoModder
 
roflwaffle's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Southern California
Posts: 1,490

Camryaro - '92 Toyota Camry LE V6
90 day: 31.12 mpg (US)

Red - '00 Honda Insight

Prius - '05 Toyota Prius

3 - '18 Tesla Model 3
90 day: 152.47 mpg (US)
Thanks: 349
Thanked 122 Times in 80 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by Christ View Post
In other words, you're not going to see Caterpillar or Detroit or White putting cans of salt water on their trucks come next week, or even next year, ya know?
Heavy duty trucks just go w/ urea aftertreatment if anything. Treating the entire exhaust stream w/ water is far too weight/volume intensive for a road going vehicle, so what manufacturers do is minimize what NOx emissions they can, use a SCR system to capture the rest, and periodically inject the urea solution into the exhaust stream in order to clean it out. Rinse and repeat. Regarding water recovery, the water has to be deionized, so unless that can be done on the truck, contaminants from the exhaust stream will poison the SCR system.
  Reply With Quote