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What's in the AdBlue Buyers’ Guide?
- The chemistry bit – understanding how AdBlue is made
- Handling AdBlue safely – is it a hazard or not?
- Storage and dispensing – how to keep costs down
- AdBlue prices and how they are worked out
- Contamination and sub-standard AdBlue – how to make sure you don’t get ripped off
- Alternative approach to AdBlue
- Disabling the SCR system and why you should avoid it
- AdBlue and Euro-6
- Licensed AdBlue manufacturers
- Suppliers of storage tanks and ancillary equipment
Why should you read the AdBlue buyers' guide?
Although sometimes described as a fuel additive, AdBlue is nothing of the sort - t is more correctly described as a reagent and is the diet of choice for vehicles’ selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems.
When sprayed into a hot exhaust stream AdBlue gives off ammonia gas which reacts with the SCR catalyst to convert NOx (oxides of nitrogen) in the exhaust gases into harmless nitrogen and water.
The word AdBlue first began to crop up in our vocabulary in 2003. It had been coined as a trademark by the German automotive industry association, the VDA (Verband de Automobilindustrie). The VDA wanted a standard for a urea solution that was soon to be widely adopted by commercial vehicle manufacturers poised to comply with Euro-4 exhaust emission limits, which took effect for all new trucks registered from October 2006.
Since then, we have witnessed the birth of the AdBlue industry, the establishment of a supply chain and the development of all the paraphernalia to store, dispense and manage it. Only around half the trucks currently on UK roads need AdBlue and some operators have steered clear of it altogether. But that option looks like disappearing in a few years’ time….
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