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Even when the fuel and air entering an engine are at the
ideal stoichiometric mixture, perfect combustion does
not occur and some HC ends up in the exhaust
Incomplete mixing of the air and fuel results in some fuel
particles not finding oxygen to react with
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The local peak NOx value for a given engine, load, and
speed invariably occurs at an equivalence ratio than 1.0
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PCV System
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PCV System
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Conversion efficiency of
catalytic converters as a
function of converter
temperature has been shown
in the figure.
The temperature at which the
converter becomes 50%
efficient is often called the
light-off temperature
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