Review of the regulations and techniques to eliminate toxic emissions from diesel engine cars

A G Olabi; David Maizak; Tabbi Wilberforce

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141249

Review of the regulations and techniques to eliminate toxic emissions from diesel engine cars

Sci Total Environ. 2020 Dec 15:748:141249. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141249. Epub 2020 Jul 31.

Authors

A G Olabi¹, David Maizak², Tabbi Wilberforce³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; Mechanical Engineering and Design, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK.
² Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK.
³ Mechanical Engineering and Design, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK. Electronic address: tabbiwilberforce.awotwe@uws.ac.uk.

PMID: 33113699
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141249

Abstract

One of the challenging issues affecting the automotive industry in recent times has to do with the total emissions produced by the sector annually. This investigation sums up some of these toxic emissions generated by diesel engine cars. Legislations related to these emissions were also discussed thoroughly. Techniques that can be adopted to eliminate these gases were also investigated as well. In spite of the successes made in this sector, there is still more room for improvement in terms of commitments by all stakeholders in the industry and this has been carefully discussed in this report.

Keywords: Carbon monoxide; Diesel engine cars; Exhaust gas; Global warming; Legislation; Nitric oxide.