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JOHNSON MATTHEY EMISSION CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES WINS PRESTIGIOUS QUEEN'S AWARDS
Date: 27/04/2009
Johnson Matthey recognised for its dedication to innovation and international trade
 London, 27th April 2009 - Johnson Matthey (http://www.matthey.com/) has announced that its Emission Control Technologies business has been honoured with two prestigious Queen's Awards for Enterprise - the most highly regarded corporate accolade that any UK business can win. Johnson Matthey was selected for its Compact Soot Filter for light diesel engines, developed to enable all the catalytic and filtration functions necessary to trap pollutants from diesel engines to be incorporated into a small filter.
The Compact Soot Filter has been recognised in both the International Trade and Innovation categories of the Queen's Award. This represents a hat trick for the Johnson Matthey group as the company was also recognised and rewarded with a Queen's Award for Innovation for its Tracerco business in the North East of England.
The Johnson Matthey Compact Soot Filter
Diesel engines are fuel-efficient and produce less carbon dioxide than petrol engines. However, they emit exhaust soot that has been linked to serious health problems. While controlling diesel engines' environmentally harmful exhaust emissions presents a major engineering challenge, recent legislation effectively means that new European diesel cars will soon have to be fitted with particulate filters to minimise these emissions.
The Johnson Matthey Compact Soot Filter solves previously unresolved design challenges related to emissions filters for small diesel engines and over two million of these products have now been exported for use in European cars ahead of the impending legislation.
Johnson Matthey's innovative concept was to control harmful soot, hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions from diesel cars with a single component small enough to fit directly onto the turbocharger in the restrictive engine space of a vehicle. In this location, heat losses are minimised, so thermal efficiency is high and all the exhaust heat is available to catalytically remove hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide pollutants when driving. High thermal efficiency also means less fuel is used in initiating the carefully controlled periodic burning of trapped soot.
Commenting on the achievement, Ian Godwin Director of Corporate Communications at Johnson Matthey, said: “Johnson Matthey is delighted that its Emission Control Technologies business has been awarded with the Queen's Awards for Enterprise in both the International Trade and Innovation categories this year. These highly prestigious awards recognise our leading-edge technology in the field of automobile emission control and the hard work and dedication of the team that has made the Compact Soot Filter such a success.”
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