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What happens when flood water gets into a catalytic converter?
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∙ 12y ago
It may or may not have damaged the converter. Remove the water and then you will see. More than likely it will be fine.
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What comes out of an engine if you have a catalytic converter?
water co2 and nitrogen...
How do you remove water from catalytic converter?
Start the engine. The water will evaporate from the heat generated by the engine.
Where would coolant leak from if dripping over the catalytic converter in a 2000 Ford Tauraus?
From the water pump
The function of a catalytic converter is to?
Convert unburnt fuel, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides into nitrogen, water, and carbon dioxide.
How do you repair a clogged catalytic converter?
You repair a clogged catalytic converter by replacing it. A catalytic converter works by having unburned gasoline or some other substance touch a metallic catalyst such as platinum or rhodium. When the catalytic metal becomes covered over with garbage it stops working. When it stops converting the garbage to carbon dioxide and water, the small holes in it then become clogged. Then it will not let exhaust gasses pass though. No way exists to clean out a catalytic converter. They can only be taken apart and the substance used as raw material to create a new metallic catalyst. You can drive fast and blow the dirt off!
What is a catalytic convertor?
A catalytic converter are used to reduce car pollution in many countries. They simply turn nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide to nitrogen,carbon dioxide and water vapous (H2O)
What happens when a flood happens?
A flood happens when water over flows from to much rain and over flows the city/village/etc........ also, when it rain for so long and rain so hard
Why do catalytic converters do not work effctively until the engine has warmed up?
A catalytic converter changes unburned hydrocarbons into carbon dioxide and water vapor. It's a simple chemical process, and like most chemical processes, it will either generate or absorb heat so in this case, since the catalytic converter requires heat to change the state of the hydrocarbons, it either has to be heated or it will operate quite effectively using the exhaust heat. Note, if the engine is operating efficiently there should be very little for the catalytic converter to do.
What happens when there is to much water in a river too quickly?
flash floods
How is an earthquake different from flood?
A earthquake shakes the ground and the building collapses. A flood happens when the drain gets blocked with water and water goes everywhereand ruins houses
How carbon monoxide and unburnt hydrocarbon made into less harmful substance?
Inside a catalytic converter they are combined with oxygen to form carbon dioxide and water.
Are catalytic converters 100 percent effective?
Catalytic converters are but one part of a comprehensive pollution control system on a vehicle. Catalytic converters are 100% effective in achieving the pollution reductions demanded of them by the auto manufacturers. The converter is the last step in cleaning exhaust before comes out the tailpipe and into the air. A catalytic converter contains a catalyst. A catalyst acts as a chemically neutral facilitator of molecular reaction between other chemicals, without the reacting chemicals or the reaction byproducts effecting the catalyst itself. The whole purpose of the catalytic converter is to convert exhaust gas pollutants to environmental friendly chemicals and compounds that exit through the tail pipe at the rear of your vehicle. In a typical gasoline-powered passenger car, the target exhaust gases CO2 and water. Ever see water dripping from a car's exhaust pipe? That's not a defect. Dripping water from an exhaust pipe means that the car's pollution control system - and its catalytic converter - are working properly.
