History of antitoxic systems development in FSUE “NAMI”

Abstract

The article outlines the retrospective of creating domestic antitoxic devices for automobiles and other machinery equipped with an internal combustion engine (ICE). The works in this direction have been carrying out since the 60s of the last century. They were started at the Laboratory of Neutralization and Problems of Vehicles and Tractors Energy (LANE), which became a structural part of NAMI, as a separate Center “Ecology of vehicles and engines” after numerous reorganizations occurring in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For more than fifty years history of these departments, numerous projects have been implemented to develop neutralizers to support auxiliary devices and complex neutralization systems practically for almost all models of domestic vehicles with gasoline, diesel and gas engines. Highly efficient and economical monolithic catalysts on a metal basis were synthesized, the technologies for their manufacture were created and organized the pilot production of antitoxic systems that met the requirements of the automotive industry and satisfied environmental standards - from the requirements of the first domestic GOSTs to modern and promising EURO-5 and EURO-6 standards. Among the users of the FSUE “NAMI” developments a number of foreign companies should be mentioned: from Japan, Italy and Portugal, where diesel forklifts were equipped with the neutralizers H-13 and H-32 and which were also supplied for serial motor vehicles. The work of the Center was repeatedly marked and exhibited at international conferences and exhibitions and the Center received awards at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements, the Geneva Salon “Eureka” and other exhibitions.