Possible Applications

In developing countries, the air pollution due to exhaust gas from diesel engine is a serious problem. The main cause of air pollution is combustion of high sulfur light oil.
This can be because that the price of low-sulfur light oil which exhaust lower particulate matter(PM: fine particle of carbon, hydrocarbon, sulfate, etc.) is more expensive than that of high-sulfur light oil.
In addition, unregulated vehicles which exhaust much black smoke(fine particle of canbon, soot, etc.) have been used due to the high maintenance cost of diesel vehicles to pass the emission regulation. “MoCobee CT” is able to solve these problems.

“MoCobee CT” is able to remove 99.9% of black smoke without clogging in any aged diesel vehicles which use high-sulfur light oil and exhaust black smoke.

      Fig. 4 Application of MoCobee (a bus in Mongolia)                     Fig. 5 Application of MoCobee (a forkift)

Competitie Advantage

“MoCobee CT” is more advantageous than competitive products from the viewpoint of total cost because of the following reasons.

1. Higher initial cost, but cheaper in total
The initial cost of MoCobee is a little bit more expensive than competitive DPF using cordierite or metal filter because “MoCobee CT” is made of silicon carbide(SiC), which has high temperature resistance (see Fig. 1). Filters made of cordierite and metal should be interchanged because these materials gradually wear out to be disposed in the end.

By contrast, the filter of SiC can be used semipermanently. The running cost is cheaper because it is free from the problem caused by clogging which can be happened in device of catalyst type.
                                            
                                                           Table 1 Comparison of SiC and Cordierite

2. Recyclable
Since the DPF body is able to recycle semipermanently it is economical to utilize detached DPF from scrapped vehicle for new vehicle.

Performance

1. Filtering performance

1) PM reduction >90%
PM mainly consists of fine carbon as well as hydrocarbon and sulfate. It has been proved that MoCobee can actually remove more than 90% PM from diesel exhaust gas by an experiment and field tests.

                       Table 2 The evaluation of PM removal by a chasis dynamo test

※Measured by Japan Automobile Technology Association in 2001. A chasis dynamo meter was used to conduct the experiment in the condition of thierteen modes of diesel automobiles. At the time light oil which had higher sulfur content was used.

2) Removal of nanoparticles
MoCobee has excellent performance to remove even nanoparticles which is smaller than PM 2.5. MoCobee can achieve clean environment by removing nanoparticles completely from closed spaces in construction sites and tunnels.

                                                                      Fig. 6 Comparison of particle size

3) Black smoke removal 99.9%
Black smoke normally consist of fine carbon particles. Only quite few black smoke go through the filter.

2. Wearability

Advantages of cassette type DPF
(1) When an engines is replaced, it is possible to change the number of filters according to the engine output.
(2) Simple construction of the filters makes it possible to install them freely and easily.

Technical Maturity / Past Record of Introduction

1. Year of beginning sales : November, 1999
2. Units of sale

  (1) DPF for passenger vehicle: >3,500 units
  (2) DPF for forklift: > 3,000 units(including OEM)
  (3) DPF for construction machine: appox. 50 units
  (4) DPF for railway vehicle: approx. 30 units

3. Units of export

  (1) DPF for bus: 30 units (Mongolia 25, China 5)
  (2) DPF for forklift: 30 units (China, Taiwan, Thailand)

*Comotec Corporation’s Summary Report of the project; “Verification Survey with the Private Sector for Disseminating Japanese Technologies for Emission Reduction of Particulate Matter (PM) from Diesel Buses by DPF Suitable for Ulaanbaatar Condition” financed by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) issued on August, 2019

Information on Patent Related to This Technology

1. “Device for misuse prevention of emission purification device” : Patent No. P3947681
2. “Carrier for emission purification filter”：Patent No. P3980931
3. “Emission purification device for internal combustion engine”：Patent No. P4874789
4. “Device for rising temperature in exhaust system”：Patent No. P5283201
5. “Device for filter regeneration”：Patent No. P5971645
6. “Filter device for internal combustion engine”：Patent No. P6277489

Name	COMOTEC Corporation
Address	13-17, Minamisakaecho, Kasukabe-shi, Saitama 344-0057, Japan
Capital	10,000,000 Yen (as of 21th February, 2019)
Contact person	Mr. Soichiro HOSHINO E-mail: info@comotec.co.jp Tel: +81-48-797-7197
Number of employees	8 (as of 21th February, 2019)
Date of company foundation	December 17, 1996
Type of business	Development and sales of exhaust gas emission reduction device for diesel engine

 

International operation

Number of employees for international operation		2
Overseas        offices	City, Country	Name of Company (if applicable)
	N/A	N/A

 

Modality of business transaction

Partnership
We would like to make a distributorship agreement with a local company. We plan to let the persons in developing countries produce parts except main components because it will be possible to make the cost of product down. We will also give them training in Japan how to install and maintain the DPF, not only exporting DPF.

Schematic illustration of the technology

                                                   Fig. 7 Regeneration cycle of MoCobee cassette filter                                                          Fig. 8 An example of layout for MoCobee installation