Thoughts for the future... |
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In reality it would be less than this. Even if the throttle was wide open because the intake gas duct, Air filter and intake valves would all offer some resistance to gas flow. In Practice the Air flow would be set by the Throttle position and the fuel gas flow would be like wise be regulated to give 3000 rpm. But imagine increasing the load on the engine until the throttle was wide open and the fuel Gas flow set to give stoichiometric combustion with the engine still doing 3000rpm. Given The following:- And assuming we set the fuel air mixture to the Stoichiometric ratio and ignoring the gas flow restrictions of the air intake etc... The quantity of natural gas /min for this concentration (9.5%) would be 0.095 x 1350 = 128.25 lt/min Therefore max energy released in the system would be 2.1375 lt/s x 39.3 kJ/lt = 84.00375 kJ/s (84.0 kW) My House boiler is 35kW... Halve the speed Halve the power (ish) |