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Providing A
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RCV
CLEAN
AIR & HEALTH BENEFITS
Benefits
How
it works
Clean
Air
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Rotary
Cartridge Valve - RCV Technology
By 1996,
97% of pollutants had been removed from auto
emission using current technology. Attempts to remove the
remainder will be cost prohibitive adding an estimated
$2,000 to the cost of a new car. However, the Rotary
Cartridge Valve has added value above and beyond the
performance gains already cited. In the area of
pollution, RCV technology is capable of reducing
pollutants in addition to those already met by existing
technologies.
An
Addition to Clean Air
Improved
combustion, as is the case with the Rotary Cartridge Valve, will
reduce pollutants another 10% simply through
effective burn cycles. The cost for this change over is
not only minute compared to what is being suggested, it
actually improves the performance of the engine and
provides other benefits as well.
The benefit
from using RCV technology to limit pollution is not only
acceptable, it could significantly impact the progress of
reducing pollution through the RCV introduction into the
new car market in addition to the replacement of exiting
poppet valves.
Please review
the following articles in understanding the financial,
social and health costs in pollution. A 10%
reduction in emissions through improved combustion using
the RCV technology would translate into millions, if not
billions, when considering the financial, social and
health costs detailed below.
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California
Environmental Protection Agency - Air Resources
Board
Daven Oswalt, Jerry
Martin/Allan Hirsch (916) 322-2990
www.arb.ca.gov
ARB
Auto Pollution Reduction Program Proves
Cost-Effective
"By 2003 new vehicles
sold in California will emit only 25 percent of the most
harmful pollutants which come from 1994 vehicles," said
ARB Chairman John Dunlap.
Dunlap noted that the
pollution benefit gains are particularly impressive
considering that emissions from cars and light trucks
have already been reduced by more than 90 percent from
1966 through 1994.
For the full article
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msei/pubs/staffrep.doc
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Cars and Air
Pollution - National Center for Policy
Analysis
Presented
paper by Joseph Bast President of The Heartland
Institute.
Automobiles and other forms
of transportation are responsible for approximately
one-third of man-made nitrogen oxide and volatile organic
compound emissions, one-fifth of particulate emissions,
two-thirds of carbon monoxide emissions, and less than 5
percent of sulfur dioxide emissions.
These numbers are large
enough to warrant serious attention by environmentalists,
and no one disagrees that cleaning up auto emissions
would help improve urban air quality. Less widely
acknowledged, however, is the considerable progress that
already has been made in reducing the rate at which
individual cars produce pollution. Indeed, this record is
one of the most dramatic and unsung environmental success
stories of the 1980s and 1990s. Consider the following
accomplishments:
- Today's new cars emit 97
percent less hydrocarbons, 96 percent less carbon
monoxide, and 90 percent less nitrogen oxide than those
built twenty years ago.
- Cars purchased in the 1990s
will emit about 80 percent less hydrocarbons and 60
percent less nitrogen oxide during their lifetimes, even
though they will be owned longer and driven
farther.
- Between 1970 and 1991,
total highway vehicle emissions of hydrocarbons dropped
66 percent, carbon monoxide emissions by 59 percent, and
nitrogen oxide emissions by 21 percent despite the
doubling of vehicle miles traveled.
- Emission standards for the
U.S. auto fleet are more strict than those of other
countries. For example, for the model years 1981-1988,
the average emissions for cars sold by General Motors in
the U.S. equaled emissions of the lowest-emitting
Japanese cars sold in the U.S.
- In the European Community,
catalytic converters were required in most new cars
beginning in 1993; the U.S. has required them in new cars
since 1975.
Current trends in technology
and public policy ensure that air pollution from cars
will continue to decline through the 1990s and
beyond:
- Since it takes about 15
years for a passenger car fleet to turn over, fewer than
one-third of all the motor vehicles on the road today
were built to meet stricter air pollution
standards.
- Between 1987 and 2000, the
natural rate of turnover in the domestic auto and truck
fleet will produce further reductions of 50 percent in
hydrocarbon emissions, 52 percent in carbon monoxide
emissions, and 34 percent in nitrogen oxide emissions,
without any changes in current emission standards for
cars and trucks.
- Beginning in 1995, in
accordance with the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, oil
companies began selling reformulated gasoline in the nine
cities with the worst ozone problems. The new gasoline
will cut vehicle emissions of hydrocarbons and air toxins
by at least 15 percent, and all lead and other heavy
metals will be removed.
As reviewed in the National Center
for Policy Analysis article:
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/enviro/envdex4.html#b
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RCV - A Pollution
Example
1996 Estimated
Daily Pollution Statewide for the State of
California.
The chart below shows
the levels, sources of pollution by categories and the
types of pollutants as measured in tons per day. The two
categories of On Road and Other Mobile Sources combined
show the effect of the internal combustion engine. These
two combined account for 56% of all the pollution
statewide in California alone.
The internal combustion
engine creates 21,340 tons of pollution in California. The ten
percent reduction possible with the Rotary Combustion
Value would eliminate 2,134 tons per day in California
alone.
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THE
REAL PRICE OF GAS
A Report from the International
Center for Technology Assessment
This report by the
International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA)
identifies and quantifies the many external costs of using
motor vehicles and the internal combustion engine that are
not reflected in the retail price Americans pay for
gasoline. They cite,
- $39 billion to $600
billion spent annually dealing with air pollution due
to the internal combustion engine world wide.
- $29.3 to $542.4
billion for annual uncompensated health costs
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- $3 to $27.5 billion
in the area of Global warming.
For a copy of the full report,
contact: CTA at 202-547-9359, or www.icta.org
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