Climate-Neutral Driving: Continental Successfully Tests the Synthetic Diesel Fuel OME

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August 7, 2017

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(Foundry Planet/Continental) CO2 emissions reduced in proportion to the OME share: in the Continental diesel car, a 15 % OME share reduces CO2 emissions by approximately eight grams per kilometer; Entire technology chain being optimized, from the injection system, combustion, sensor technology, exhaust-gas aftertreatment and diagnostics through to process management — … The technology company Continental has now successfully conducted tests on a synthetic fuel called oxymethylene ether (OME) in test vehicles. This includes the Super Clean Electrified Diesel vehicle presented this year, which operates even more cleanly using an OME admixture. Overall, the current Continental road tests have confirmed that diesel fuel containing 15 percent OME admixture for current diesel engines is already a technically safe and viable possibility for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is possible because CO2 generated as exhaust gas in power stations or steel works can be used in the production of OME.

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For instance, OME produces almost no soot when burned,” said Dr. Oliver Maiwald, head of Technology & Innovation at Continental’s Powertrain division.

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Every fuel has specific characteristics, according to which an engine and all of its components must be designed. This means that the use of OME in engines has an effect on the entire process chain from the injection system and combustion through to the composition of raw emissions, exhaust-gas aftertreatment, sensor technology and diagnostics. For this reason it is necessary to prepare basic research into the corresponding technologies for gradually increasing the percentage of OME. “In order to use higher concentrations of OME in diesel, we need to consider the entire reaction pathway,” says Rolf Brück, head of the Catalytic Converters product line in the Fuel & Exhaust Management business unit of the Powertrain division. “With its end-to-end expertise from injection molding to exhaust-gas aftertreatment including SCR, Continental is optimally positioned for this.” READ MORE

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