Metrolink Selective Catalytic Reduction and
Pacific Harbor Line Diesel Particulate Filter
Location: South Coast
Air Basin, California
EPA is providing a $200,000 grant to the South
Coast Air Quality Management District with leveraging of over
$716,000 for two projects: demonstration of selective catalytic
reduction (SCR) on a Metrolink locomotive engine; and demonstration
of a diesel particulate filter (DFP) on a Pacific Harbor Line
switch locomotive. Both projects are expected to significantly
reduce emissions in the South Coast Air Basin, thereby benefitting
residents living near the Pacific Harbor Line and Metrolink
lines and stations. The SCR project is expected to achieve over
50 percent particulate matter reductions and 80 to 90 percent
reductions in nitrogen oxides, while the DPF project is expected
to reduce particulate matter by approximately 90 percent.
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