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Old 07-24-2013, 06:30 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
If I wanted to burn diesel fuel just to make heat I would buy a fuel oil fired furnace.
Worth noting that the cooling process of the EGR flow increases the heat rejection into the engine cooling lines instead of the exhaust, and the EGR itself increases the amount of soot to be trapped into the DPF, thus requiring more frequent regen cycles
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