In June 1975, the Forest Service Equipment Development Center at San Dimas, Calif., conducted tests to determine exhaust system temperatures on late-model vehicles. For normal operation, test results showed only small temperature differences at any point on a vehicle's exhaust system between those equipped with catalytic converters and those without catalytic converters. Also, test results indicate that the direct forest fire hazard from catalytic converter-equipped vehicles is essentially the same as with other exhaust systems, except when the vehicle engine malfunctions.NOTE: The term “vehicle,” as used in this report, refers to motor vehicles generally. “Automobile” or “car” implies a sedan, sedan delivery, or station wagon. A “pickup” is a pickup truck of less than 6,000 lb (2,721.6 kg) GVW.


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    Title :

    Catalytic Converter Temperature Tests


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    1976 Automobile Engineering Meeting ; 1976



    Publication date :

    1976-02-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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