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Fuel Oil News December 2015

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T he 8th integer Emissions Summit & DEF Forum USA 2015 was held October 27-29 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill. There were a range of session tracks presented includ- ing: Heavy-Duty Commercial Vehicles; Marine Vessel; Off-Highway; Light-Duty Vehicles and Passenger Cars; and the DEF forum that spanned the final two days of the conference. The following perspectives generally came from the DEF forum. Diesel exhaust fluid is used with the dominant diesel emission reduction technology, selective catalytic reduction or SCR. With SCR a urea-based solution (32.5% high-purity synthetic urea and 67.5% deionized water) is injected into a catalytic system (2-6% of diesel consumption) to create a chemical reaction that converts some of the NOx emissions into pure nitrogen and water vapor. DEF is of interest to deliverable fuels dealers and marketers for several reasons. First, new diesel powered delivery trucks and service vans will require its use, so it becomes a key component of the vehi- cle maintenance cycle. Second, DEF is a common product carried by diesel marketers for both profit (and perhaps more commonly) 32 DECEMBER 2015 | FUEL OIL NEWS | www.fueloilnews.com BUSINESS OPERATIONS Diesel Exhaust Fluid in Focus The 8th integer Emissions Summit & DEF Forum USA covered the product from production to end use BY KEITH REID Tim Cheyne, Integer's director – emissions Integer analyst Rebecca Hayward The panel discussion: Development of DEF in the Non-Road Sector

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