Patent ID: 7762061

Claim:
A method of operating an emission abatement system comprising: positioning an atomizer within an exhaust pipe, the atomizer including an atomizing nozzle, a liquid agent line, and a pressurized air line; locating an emission abatement device within the exhaust pipe and downstream of the atomizer; advancing a liquid agent comprising a hydrocarbon fuel within the exhaust pipe and through the liquid agent line to the atomizing nozzle; advancing pressurized air within the exhaust pipe and through the pressurized air line to the atomizing nozzle; impinging the pressurized air on the hydrocarbon fuel at a tip of the atomizing nozzle to shear hydrocarbon fuel particles from the hydrocarbon fuel; advancing the hydrocarbon fuel particles through the atomizing nozzle to the emission abatement device that includes a particulate filter; and regenerating the particulate filter.