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A new Diesel Particulate Generator (DPG) has been developed and commercialized for the automated testing of full-size, light duty Diesel Particulate Filters (DPFs). The system was optimized for filter development testing with a wide parameter range of relevant functional tests, and quality assurance testing where repeatability and rapid testing is important. A carefully designed Diesel-fuelled burner is combined with blowers to produce flows, temperatures and particulate matter (PM) that are representative of Diesel engines. The burner operates with continuous combustion of a Diesel fuel spray, with three-stage introduction of controlled airflows. Variation of these flows allows control of particulate generation independently of total gas flow and temperature (over a temperature and flow range). The system can generate stable PM at more than 20 g/h, or operate without PM formation so permitting preheating of a test filter.