Detroit Diesel's Chuck Blake offers an interesting perspective on diesel particulate filters. He says he owns them, even though every truck owner who has purchased a Detroit engine on every 2008 model ...

Diesel particulate filters are one of the major additions to exhaust systems in recent years, and they are a blessing and a curse. Used since 2007 to meet EPA regulations, DPFs strip soot and ash from ...

General Motors has been hard at work developing an aftertreatment system that incorporates an electrically heated diesel particulate filter. According to GM, this technology promises to cut the “fuel ...

Diesel cars, although extremely popular because of their speed and comfort of driving, have one major drawback. They produce exhaust fumes contaminated with soot and solid particles which negatively ...

Despite their dwindling popularity among new car buyers, there are approximately 11 million diesel-engined cars on the UK’s roads. Many owners drive diesel cars because they typically return excellent ...

Volvo Trucks North America and Mack Trucks announced Tuesday, Nov. 18, the launch of a large-scale program to remanufacture diesel particulate filters (DPF). The program will operate out of the ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 111, Section 4: JOURNAL OF FUELS AND LUBRICANTS (2002), pp. 1614-1625 (12 pages) Modeling is a precious help to optimize the setting and control of Diesel particulate filter ...

The particulate filter is pretty much mandatory in diesel cars these days. Its association with diesel-powered cars brought it the handle DPF, which stands for diesel particulate filter. Now, though, ...

Clean filters are vital to keeping your vehicle performing at its best, but most people don't think about cleaning the filters themselves. In typical cases, the fix for a dirty filter is to buy a new ...