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SkyPup
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Super Nice educational read on the lastest developments in turbodiesel engines!!!
Over the past five years, diesel engines have become more and more powerful, and of course the way to make an engine more powerful is to make the combustion more severe. So they pump in more fuel, they explode the fuel at a higher pressure, and they get more performance out of the engine. As a consequence, they also get higher fatigue loads down at the bottom of the engine.
In 1997, the state-of-the-art for performance was approximately 40 kilowatts per liter; by 1999 we were up to 50 kilowatts per liter. The engines that are now being designed for release in 2004 are at 60 kilowatts per liter, and we're already involved in new development programs for 2005-2006 that are targeting 65 kilowatts per liter. So if you look at a typical two-liter diesel engine, the performance has increased from something like 80 to 120 kilowatts (105 to 160 horsepower), or by 50% in the last five years.
http://www.sintercast.com/articles/pdfs/TWST.pdf
THANKS TO WILLY!!!
Over the past five years, diesel engines have become more and more powerful, and of course the way to make an engine more powerful is to make the combustion more severe. So they pump in more fuel, they explode the fuel at a higher pressure, and they get more performance out of the engine. As a consequence, they also get higher fatigue loads down at the bottom of the engine.
In 1997, the state-of-the-art for performance was approximately 40 kilowatts per liter; by 1999 we were up to 50 kilowatts per liter. The engines that are now being designed for release in 2004 are at 60 kilowatts per liter, and we're already involved in new development programs for 2005-2006 that are targeting 65 kilowatts per liter. So if you look at a typical two-liter diesel engine, the performance has increased from something like 80 to 120 kilowatts (105 to 160 horsepower), or by 50% in the last five years.
http://www.sintercast.com/articles/pdfs/TWST.pdf
THANKS TO WILLY!!!