Pushing Platinum Reduces Pollution.
With all the millions and millions of cars on the road we should thank your lucky stars that there is such a thing called a catalytic converter. For without catalytic converters our city's is would be virtually unlivable.
Today's catalytic converters do their jobs very well which is to virtually eliminate carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrous oxide., and this is in direct correlation with the amount of platinum group metals that are within the catalytic converter itself. Platinum, palladium and rhodium make up the platinum group metals with platinum being the most efficient for today’s cars.
Depending on the amount that's in you converter you may end you getting $5,000 per ounce.
I found all of this information out when my cars' Catalytic Converter was stolen Saturday. Here are several factors that go into cleaning a car exhaust with the catalytic converter.
1. The amount of precious metal in the catalytic converter. Naturally the more precious metal in a converter the better it will clean the exhaust. However not all precious metals are created equal for instance it takes twice as much palladium then platinum to do the same amount cleaning.
2. Location of the Catalytic Converters. Catalytic converters only works properly when it is heated to approximately to 700 Fahrenheit, which is why a car will produce 80 percent of its pollution in the first three minutes after it is started. The catalytic converter has not warmed up yet and can not work properly. Some manufacturers have tried to put to the catalytic converter as close to the exhuast manifold as possible some even creating what is called a "manifold converter" by either completely being a part of the manifold or bolted onto the manifold in an effort to clean the exhaust quickly by being closer to the engines heat.
3. There are Oxygen sensor place before and after a catalytic converter that work in tandem with your on board computer and if either of these are defective then the converter will not work properly usually from to rich of a mixture from you engine.
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