Your Health And Diesel Particulate Filters
Written on November 8, 2011 – 1:30 pm | by admin
For years no-one thought much about the effect that exhaust fumes (especially those emitted from diesel engines) had on our health and the others around us. It was assumed that if you did not inhale a great deal directly from the exhaust itself then you weren’t at risk from any ill effects of the toxins that come from the exhaust. This turned out to be untrue, however, as many people found themselves to have respiratory illnesses directly associated with diesel fumes and these came about just by working in the general area of the smoke itself.
It has been estimated that around 200,000 deaths in Europe per year (and 25,000 per year in the USA) are a direct cause of particulates being inhaled. Asthma and lung cancer are two big side effects of working with diesel fumes that are being pumped unfiltered into the air and the effects of this are not always immediately obvious. Indeed, many cases of ill health relating to the inhalation of diesel particulates are not always evident until later in life and countless numbers of people have been able to successfully prove this and receive compensation many years later as a result. One study, in fact, went as far as to suggest that unfiltered traffic fumes was the biggest cause of preventable heart attacks to the general public and are responsibly for nearly 8% of all heart attacks.
It is for these reasons that diesel particulate removal is so important in this day and age and especially now that several governments and world bodies (including the government of the United States of America and the European Union) have ruled that all new cars must come with a device to filter the amount of diesel particulates that are sent into the atmosphere in order to create a more health conscience and better environment for us all.