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Rockville, MD – Researchers Jörg Adler and Dr. Reinhard Lenk from the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden, Germany, together with HUSS Umwelttechnik GmbH have developed a ceramic diesel particle filter for off-road applications, including forklifts.

The filters, based on a material patented at the IKTS, a porous silicon carbide ceramic, can easily be retrofitted into off-road vehicles. With most particle filters, approximately 20% of the material has to be cut away with diamond cutters in order to fit the square filters into the circular pipes. “We agonized over the basic shape of the filter segments,” says Adler. A four-cornered trapezium from which square-edged or circular surfaces can be fitted together was developed. The channels in the segments are three-cornered, not square, providing a larger filter surface.

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