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1. INTRODUCTION
Today world is facing dangerous problem of ‘Air Pollution’. The major cause is obviously emissions from automobiles. With the intentation to protect public health. Several nations are issuing stricter and stricter regulations for both solid and gaseous exhausts. In particular the trend is to restrict the limit of Particulates and NOX emissions.
Diesel engines are reliable, fuel efficient, durable, easy to repair, inexpensive to operate, less CO & HC. However their future applications will greatly depend on the successful solutions of their NOX and Particulate Matter (PM) emissions. As the two pollutants are difficult to controlled simultaneously by only one of the control measures.
To assure survival of diesel engines, research work is going on to find effective solutions to control diesel exhausts, especially Particulates & NOX.
PLASMA-the Fourth State of Matter [5] has found increasingly wide applications in various industries. Some of them are especially for treatment of Particulates & NOX. However very few are concerned with the treatment of diesel Particulates.
In this paper, Plasma technology is discussed for exhaust aftertreatment. Corona Discharge Device (CDD) The Corona Discharge Device (CDD) significantly reduces HC, CO and Nox emissions [6] and non thermal Plasma (NTP) Reactor [3] which removes both Particulates as well as NOX are discussed here.