How did EGR delete affect soot on your OM602?

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How did EGR delete affect soot on your OM602?

04-03-2014, 10:34 AM

shertex

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Originally Posted by Dan Stokes

EGR shouldn't have much effect on "soot" (I assume you mean particulate matter) emissions. It's there to reduce combustion chamber temps and thereby lower NoX emissions, which Diesels love to generate. I suppose that there could be some bleed-over into the engine oil but there's no direct path between them.

Dan

I'm fairly confident that EGR increases the engine oil's soot load..

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