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Vishal Singh, marketing & business development manager for new technologies at Eaton’s Truck business unit, announced that Eaton’s aftertreatment system will be ready to meet the most strict diesel emissions requirements in the world – the 2010 U.S. EPA emissions requirements – with a “unique combination of fuel reformer catalyst with doser, selective catalytic reduction catalyst (SCR) and lean NOx trap (LNT) developed over the last few years at the Eaton Innovation Center in Southfield, MI.

“This is not a ‘me too’ technology”, said Singh. “We have proposed a novel aftertreatment system that combines a fuel dosing unit, fuel reformer catalyst, a LNT catalyst, and a SCR catalyst in series to scrub NOx from the system.

“While most SCR systems being proposed today use urea as a means of carrying the ammonia needed to catalyze the NOx,” he continued, “Eaton’s system generates its own on-board ammonia. The result is a cost-effective system that meets EPA requirements and eliminates the need for urea distribution and infrastructure or on-board urea tanks.

“Essentially, Eaton has taken two NOx-reducing technologies, packaged them in a system that allows them to work together, and taken advantage of a naturally occurring chemical reaction to eliminate a major cost and logistics hurdle that exists for urea-based systems”, said Singh.

He said “much work remains to be done” in the next three and a half years to bring this technology to market in time to meet EPA 2010 regs. However, Sigh stated that Eaton is “not investing this high level of resources into a brand-new technology unless we think we truly have a powerful value proposition for our customer. And we don’t enter into any new technology area unless we can demonstrate to our leadership, our stockholders and our customers that we intend to be a leader in that area.”

For more information on all these announcements, go to www.dana.com and www.eaton.com.