BASF Podcast - New Catalysts for Clean Diesel Vehicles

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- In this Podcast you will learn about how catalysts technology can help to make exhaust fumes of diesel vehicles cleaner Today's diesel engines are more than a match for gasoline engines.

In terms of design a diesel is much more efficient: It uses less fuel and emits less CO2. To purify diesel exhaust fumes is a challenge and only possible because manufacturers of catalytic converters like BASF Catalysts are continually improving their exhaust gas after treatment systems.

Listen to the audio reportage with the experts Andreas Binder and Dr. Frank Monkeberg of BASF Catalysts.

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More information: BASF shapes the future: Mobility, http://corporate.basf.com/future/mobility

The Success of the Automotive Catalytic Converter http://corporate.basf.com/en/stories/wipo/katalysator

Diesel engine catalysts http://www.automobil.basf.com/p02/Automotive/en_GB/portal/show-content_enviro nment/content/Our_solutions/Environment/Diesel_engine_catalysts/Diesel_engi ne_catalysts_007

BASF Catalysts - Environmental Technologies http://www.catalysts.basf.com/main/environmental/mobile_sources/automotive_e missions/diesel_automobiles.be

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