M-B BlueTec Diesel Technology - 2007?

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T.G. Lambach Contact options for registered users 's Avatar posted on
January 10, 2006, 8:33 pm
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http://www4.mercedes-benz.com/specials/scr/en/index_nocom_en.htm

This is the URL for M-B's BlueTec Diesel Technology site in which they
describe how it works. It's expected next year on the '07 (updated)
E-Class, V-6 CDI diesel.

Basically, diesels' exhaust must be rid of soot and NOx. A ceramic cat
can eliminate the soot but the NOx is the hard part. So this technology
injects urea (ammonia and water) into the exhaust and a catalyst
converts it and the NOx into N and H2O.
The website has an excellent BlueTec presentation (aimed at European
truck operators) for us diesel voyeurs.

In 1980 when I bought my 300SD, we received a North American directory
of diesel fuel stations, I guess in 2007 they'll hand out a similar
directory of urea stations - but on a CD for the car's Nav system!

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January 11, 2006, 2:06 am
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T.G. Lambach wrote:

Um, so if you run out, one can fill with "bio-urea"? ;-) No need to look
for clean restrooms at gas stations...

Hmm, come to think of it, now all you need to do is convert the engine
to run on methane, and there you have it -the perfect car - run you car
on shit by-products, and make it environmentally friendly using piss.

Wonder what the exhaust will smell like though...

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WS






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Hmmmm commercially produced Urea and Urine are not exactly the
same products - Urea being produced from Ammonia.



 

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January 11, 2006, 12:50 pm
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Do you supposed it'd work just to open the hood and pee into the reservoir?



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and what is the motivation for the average not very
mechanically knowledgable driver to maintain this
system?

I just with the OM642 ( the V6 diesel I think ) would get
here faster and in a vehicle that is really really big.

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