The California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently awarded GEO2 Technologies a grant of $185,000 to broaden the engine range on which GEO2's diesel particulate filters (DPFs) can be installed. I won't even pretend to understand how the GEO's "patented, cross-linked microstructure" helps these DPFs remove "99 percent of pollutants from diesel exhaust while achieving high fuel economy, emissions control and enhanced engine performance," but all that sounds like a good thing. There are more details in the release after the jump.

The money came from CARB's Innovative Clean Air Technologies (ICAT) program and will go to putting the filters on large off-road diesel engines and small hand-held engines, a project that will cost $370,000. The GEO2 CEO, Rob Lachenauer, said that the DPF microstructure will allow the units to be used on large and small engines and on diesel and gas engines. GPFs, anyone?

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[Source: GEO2]