ZAGREB, April 22, 2018 - A project was presented in Zagreb to reduce the impact of traffic pollution on air quality in the capital by using a unique internal combustion engine cleaning technology that reduces harmful gas emissions by 30 to 95 percent.
The project, called "Zagreb - A Green City", was designed by the Town of Zagreb and a consortium comprising the Dr Andrija Štampar Teaching Institute of Public Health and Croatian companies GGT, Smart Sense and Mapos Usluge. The cleaning device was patented by Petar Jončić.
"Today we are witnessing the start of a unique project and a solution to the problem which no one in the world has managed to solve yet. I think that this project has a potential not only for Europe but for the whole world as well. Mayors from across Europe have shown a great interest," the director of the Dr Andrija Štampar Institute, Zvonimir Šostar, said. He said that traffic is the biggest polluter in urban areas and that, according to data from the World Health Organisations, over seven million people die annually from bad air.
Mayor Milan Bandić said that the project would go ahead if a pilot covering 100 cars showed positive effects. "We will see if what the project offers, and that is to reduce air pollution from car exhaust fumes in Zagreb by 50 percent on average, is a reality. Then we will clean each car, and there are between 400,000 and 450,000 cars in Zagreb, so that they emit as little harmful exhaust fumes as possible," the mayor said.
Petar Jončić, CEO of the Genijator company and owner of the patent "System for the Production of Orthohydrogen", said that the interior of the engine is cleaned of unburnt fuel particles so that the engine "breathes more easily", breaks down less often, works faster, consumes less, and releases less harmful emissions.
A cleaning session for passenger vehicles takes an hour, while those for buses and trucks take two and a half hours. After the cleaning, fuel consumption is reduced by five to 15 percent, Jončić alleged. Cleaning is recommended once a year.
Still, despite great announcements, the result are yet to be proven.
