EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE ELECTRIC DISCHARGE
SYSTEM FOR LOWERING THE TOXICITY OF EXHAUST 
GASES OF THE D-243 DIESEL ENGINE

S. A. Zhdanok, G. M. Vasil'ev,
V. A. Vasetskii, and A. N. Kartashevich

UDC 537.525

The results of the experimental studies of a full-scale 
plasmachemical system for lowering the toxicity of exhaust gases of 
the D-243 diesel engine are presented. It has been shown that under 
nominal operating conditions of the D-243 engine the device decreases 
the content of soot by more than 95% and lowers the concentration 
of nitrogen oxides by 24% under combined conditions of discharge power 
supply and at a value of the specific energy input up to 2.5 W(h/m3.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 78, 
No. 2, pp. 189-191, March-April, 2005. Original article submitted 
October 14, 2004.