This paper describes the experience gained in a first exercise to investigate the potential ability of exhaust thermal reactors to reduce specific exhaust pollutants from European sized engines below the control levels likely to be legislated in the longer term.
It concludes that such systems are both efficient and viable, subject to adequate development, and may become essential if the political trends towards increasingly stringent depollution standards continue.
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