The AEPR Technology will bring a dramatic potential for shortening the time line to cleaner air levels. Since the older cars constitute the majority of the vehicles, and therefore the majority of the pollution, planners will now be able to consider emission reduction on older cars as well, as part of their clean air strategy.

Auto emission standards are even more demanding in response to EPA's drive to reduce toxic levels in congested cities. ( see Table A )

The best that could be hoped for from older cars is the original standard to which they were built, given that they are maintained in good repair, and benefit from reformulated fuel. So, until now, the time line for air quality improvement relies on the replacement of the older by the very much cleaner newer cars, to which the new standards are directed.

It is an inescapable reality that fossil fueled vehicles will be around for decades, it is also inescapable that to coexist with the environment, improvements in emission performance beyond what the catalytic converter is capable of, will be a requirement. To affect any supplemental emission reduction, a second catalytic converter after the first will be too cool to operate, needing in the range of 1600 degrees F for it to function. The heat from the engine and any heat from the scarce fuel remaining in the emissions will be inadequate to sustain any kind of operation.
 

Even if such were available, more of the same would be certain to result in diminishing returns.

The typical exhaust system is made up of a Catalytic converter, a resonator and a muffler. On some models the muffler is in the middle and the resonator on the tail end, while on others the order is reversed. The AEPR Retrofit Package can replace the muffler in the location and with the style appropriate.

Some larger engines or styling options are equipped with dual exhaust systems, in these cases both mufflers are candidates for replacement.

A muffler casing equipped with provision for a latching mechanism on one end with provision for a second on models designed to mount at the center of the exhaust system, The casing is designed to accept a self contained emission control system, which, configured as a replaceable cartridge, functions both as a muffler and post processor type pollution control system. This feature affords ease of replacement for routine servicing.

How does the AEPR differ from the Catalytic Converter

The AEPR is intended to supplement the Catalytic Converter. It is a lower temperature technology, so that it can reside further from the engine along the exhaust system. It takes advantage of high frequency electrical excitation to promote ionization and has the capacity to store and release oxygen to affect an active means to oxidize the residues from the catalytic converter.

The AEPR is functionally also a sound muffler and can occupy the space available in a standard muffler size case.

Global Warming and SEC

By adding a device to an exhaust pipe, which Supplementary Emission Control provides for, even Micro Reactor Technology to trap & remove Carbon Dioxide to various degrees becomes realistic to consider.

Adcapital Industries Ltd., in its search for Emission Reduction Technologies, recognized early on, that there was a limit to the emission reduction that Catalytic Converters, Clean Burn Engine Technology, and Fuel formulation Technology could achieve. Below a certain concentration, no amount of practical catalyst effect can finish the emission reduction to a zero ( theoretical level ) in the time the gases spend in the presence of the catalyst. It was reasoned therefore, that additional system(s) of differing technologies could be daisy-chained along the exhaust system. These additional or Supplementary means would be complementary, bringing along additional benefits in addition to lowering the limits to which emissions could otherwise be reduced.