Automotive Standards - November 2007

In this issue:

• Work Proceeds on ASTM Biodiesel Specifications
  

  As biodiesel continues to penetrate the market, work is ongoing to refine existing standards as well as to develop new ones. Though ASTM D6751-07b, Standard Specification for Biodiesel Fuel Blend Stock (B100) for Middle Distillate Fuels, has already been published, the ASTM Committee on Biodiesel Fuel, under the leadership of chair Steve Westbrook, continually works to revise it.

• Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel Fuels
  

  As the EPA mandate for 100% conversion by 2010 to ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel approaches, stakeholders are on track to resolve or prevent issues that may arise, according to Michael Harrigan of Zen Fuels, LLC, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

• Cerium-Oxide-Coated Catalyst Could Knock Out NOx by 2010?
  

  A promising cerium-oxide-coated catalyst developed at the Argonne National Laboratory is now patented and may be commercially available in two to three years, at approximately the same time as the 2010 EPA deadline for the reduction of diesel NOx emissions to 0.2 grams per brake-horsepower hour. In fact, Argonne researcher Christopher Marshall, a developer of the technology, says that the catalyst may be capable of removing as much as 100 percent of NOx emissions.

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