Welcome!
AKPF web-site will continue with emphasis on needs of officials in charge of air pollution abatement.
In view of social and legal developments the former informal task force or working group called AKPF had to be transformed into a legal person, which is now called VERT-Association or VERT-Verein; this association is registered as a non profit organisation in Switzerland (Trade Registry: Kanton Aargau, No.: CH-400.6.03438-9). For more information on VERT Association see www.vert-dpf.eu and www.vert-certification.eu.
The accomplishments of AKPF are numerous, as outlined in the about AKPF page (update is forthcoming).
| Watch a movie about particulate pollution and particulate filter technology: | Search the unique AKPF database of diesel particulate filter retrofit installations on construction vehicles and machinery in Switzerland. |
| Four SAE Fellows, experts of distinguished accomplishments, are now contributing to this web site. | |
| ETH Conference Papers on Health Topic, compiled by the VERT Association (also available on CD, contact us to order). | Soot Sling FTF—A movie showing soot release from an FTF. For more information, read Flow Through Filter (FTF) versus Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF). |
What’s New
29 January 2010: Flow Through Filter (FTF) versus Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF), by F.J. Legerer, Manager, VERT-Association. The author suggests implicitly potential liability due to professional negligence in case of public subsidies for FTF.
21 January 2010: An update on diesel retrofits in Chile.
A 2009 SAE technical paper by Andreas Mayer has been selected for publication in the SAE International Journal for Fuels and Lubricants: “Properties of Partial-Flow and Coarse Pore Deep Bed Filters Proposed to reduce Particle Emissions of Vehicle Engines”, SAE Int.J.Fuels Lubr. 2(1):497-510, 2009.
20 January 2010: Information on GRPE activities to develop test procedures for retrofit particulate filters has been posted in the privileged section.
4 January 2010: Bibliographie Health-Effect-Veröffentlichungen, December 2009.
4 December 2009: ETH Conference Papers on Health Topic, compiled by the VERT Association (also available on CD).
3 December 2009: Diesel Particle Filters, of Best Available Technology (BAT) for reducing both, risks to human health and forcing of global warming from engine emitted black carbon nanoparticles, by F. Legerer
2 December 2009: Environmentalist’s FAQ: Internal combustion engine generated nano-particles, DPF- Diesel particulate filters; PM10, by F. Legerer
22 June 2009: Presentations from the Conference on Particle Emissions from Two Stroke Scooters, Monza, Italy, June 11-12, 2009.
8 June 2009: Feinstäube und Umweltzonen, an article by R. Zellner and coworkers (in German).