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Environmental issues have long been the primary concern in today’s contemporary
times. It is even a worse statement to accept that the people get all of the luxuries
in life plus the convenience and comfort they enjoy but also at the expense of
the environmental degradation. To further comply with the strict law passed by
the federal government regarding the hazardous effects of vehicle gas emissions,
Honda catalytic converters are up and about in the best level of their performance to attain an environment-friendly and reliable reputation for their cars.
A catalytic converter mounted at an automobile’s exhaust system enables the ever
beneficial chemical reaction process to take place. This chemical reaction process
is the stage wherein unburned hydrocarbons are completely combusted with the use
of the catalysts platinum and rhodium. This combustion process takes place outside
of the engine’s combustion chamber therefore no useful and productive energy is
extracted.
The main emissions of a car engine are the nitrogen gas, carbon dioxide, and
water vapor. And because no combustion process is ever perfect, some smaller amounts
of harmful emissions are produced. They are the carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons,
and nitrogen oxides. All of these gases are harmful as they are the major pollutants
that cause poison, smog, acid rain, and irritation to human mucus membrane. These
harmful emissions are what the catalytic converters are tasked to reduce.
Honda cars are equipped with the three-way catalytic converters. Meaning, they
are able to regulate and reduce the emissions of carbon monoxide, the hydrocarbons,
and nitrogen oxide molecules. Honda catalytic converters use two different types
of catalysts—a reduction catalyst and an oxidation catalyst. Honda catalytic converters
are available in either honeycomb or ceramic beads structure. The reduction catalyst
is the first stage of the catalytic converter. Platinum and rhodium are used to
reduce the NOx emissions. In this manner, the nitrogen atoms are ripped out of
the molecules so the oxygen is freed from the form of O2 therefore leaving the
nitrogen atoms to bond with the rest of the nitrogen atoms to be left to the catalyst
to form N2. The second stage is the oxidation catalyst wherein the unburned hydrocarbons
and carbon monoxide are oxidized by burning them over the platinum and palladium
catalyst.
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