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• finer filtration

• higher capacity

• better water removing capability

• improved engine protection

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Constellation
drives technology
EURO IV:
even higher emission
standards require 1500 bar
fuel injection pressure For a long time heavy-duty filtration was defined by
EURO III: cellulose-based filters. This was enough to fulfill the
unit injection pumps
for optimized combustion
undemanding needs of the engines of the past.
process But the emission norms of EURO III and EURO IV
are forcing engine manufacturers to develop
more sophisticated heavy-duty engines using
an improved combustion process that matches
the new tough emission limits.

The new engine generation is equipped with highly

sophisticated injection pumps that generate much
higher injection pressures. At the same time injection
nozzles are extremely sensitive to any contaminant
in the fuel. Hence the need for a totally new and
sophisticated filtration media: StrataPore.

EURO II: Soot Fuel injection

current CO HC Nox particles pressure needed
emission status
EURO II (current norm) 4,00 1,10 7,00 0,15 1200 bar

EURO III (2000) 2,10 0,66 5,00 0,10 1500 bar

EURO IV (2005) 1,50 0,46 3,50 0,02 1800 to 2000 bar

Higher norms – higher pressures. The chart above

with the expected implementation dates of EURO III
and EURO IV shows how tough the new standards
are set and – even more important – that injection
pressures will increase from 1200 to possibly 2000
Economic and ecological aspects are more and more
bar. Increased pressures are necessary to optimize the
affecting the industrial world.
fuel spray patterns which thus leads to decreased
Diesel engines need to be more powerful on the one
engine emissions that meets the tough new standards.
hand but on the other hand have to be
environmentally-friendly and cost (= fuel) saving.
Legislation is driving the automotive business and
EURO I
challenging engine manufacturers to comply with
even tougher emission norms.
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Depth filtration
StrataPore is the only fine filtration

A new definition
media to offer ultra efficiency with-
out penalizing on capacity.
StrataPore multi-layer high capacity
media is able to extend filter life and

of protection
offer extended service intervals.

The very finest protection

In heavy-duty filtration, the efficiency of the
filter is the key to protecting the engine.
Analysis of fuel from heavy-duty diesel
engines has shown that about 90% of the
particles that can harm an engine have a size
between 5 and 15 Micron. Unequalled by any
traditional filter media, StrataPore performs
at least twice as efficiently as cellulose and
delivers almost 100% filtration efficiency for
this range of particles.

While other filter medias are made of cellu-

lose or glass fibres, Fleetguard's StrataPore
media is a composite of bonded layers of
synthetic filter media. While fibre diameters
of cellulose range from 12 to 60 microns,
StrataPore polymeric fibres range from less
than 1 to 10 microns. StrataPore filter media
is less restrictive and delivers a much finer fil-
tration. Each layer of StrataPore is developed
to provide optimum pore size distribution so
that the composite medium meets the specific
filtration requirements of the application.
StrataPore provides unique advantages that a
traditional filter media can not offer and fully
meets or exceeds injection pump manufactur-
ers requirements.
particles down to 3 Micron.
2nd layer with medium fine

and delivers purely filtered

fibres to filter medium size
1st layer of coarse fibre to
eliminate gross contami-

lifetime of your sensitive

allows higher flow rates
fibres to eliminate finest
3rd layer with super fine

StrataPore filter media

particles of 10 Micron.

fuel that increases the

nants of 20 Micron.

injection system.

‘StrataPore inside’ means:
Better efficiency –
finer filtration
With StrataPore fuel filters an
injection system receives the best
filtration performance available
today. StrataPore offers a real
protection to the engine and the
electronic valves that are standard
in sophisticated fuel injection
systems of today.
StrataPore average efficiency is
over 99% for particles greater or
equal to 5micron and still more
than 96% for particles down to
3micron. As an efficiency of 98.7%
in the diesel world is considered to
be an absolute filtration level,
StrataPore filters are 4 to 5 micron
absolute. By this much finer filtra-
tion, StrataPore achieves a high-
level protection of the fuel injection
system against wear.
93%
100%
80%
60%
38%
40%
cellulose
20%
0% unfiltered
0%
Higher capacity –
extended filter lifetime
StrataPore filters are composed of
2 up to 6 layers consisting of
continuous, polymeric fibres with
diametres between 1 to 10 micron.
These fibres are much smaller
compared to cellulose media which
has diametres of 12 to 60 micron and
offer a much bigger dirt holding
capacity compared to a single layer
media. The combination of the
lower restriction and the higher dirt
holding capacity extends the filter
life significantly.
SLA studies for on-engine measurement of
wear rate impressively prove that StrataPore
is the best media to give protection against
wear in a fuel system. While the injector
port erosion is 0.42 without any fuel filtration
and still 0.16 with traditional cellulose
StrataPore media, StrataPore reduces wear to a mini-
mum of 0.03 which equals 93% of protection.
StrataPore inside
Better water removal capability –
improved engine protection
The micro-fibres used in StrataPore are not sensitive to
water. Even more – StrataPore fuel filters offer a great
water removing capability and protect state-of-the-art
fuel systems against the damage caused by free and
emulsified water. If not removed, free and emulsified
water dramatically reduces the lifetime of all fuel sys-
tem components. StrataPore fuel filters ensure more
than 95% of water removal which means an unequaled
protection of your fuel system.
Extended Service
intervals – reduced
maintenance cost
Media migration is a typical problem related
to cellulose media. The short cellulose and
glass fibres that are held together with extra
binders deform and migrate into the highly
sensitive fuel system.
Cellulose
StrataPore
With StrataPore the problem of media
migration is solved.
Each layer of StrataPore is woven from
endless extra fine synthetic fibres that are
not only much thinner than cellulose
media but are not assembled with extra
layers of binding. In fact, StrataPore offers
a dual benefit: no media migration and a
much higher capacity.
Advanced StrataPore filtraton media
allows operators to extend service inter-
vals up to 60.000 KM, thereby reducing
maintenance costs and downtime.