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Re: diesel fuel consumptions (attn Rainer cool smiley
Posted by: Jukka Juutinen ()
Date: December 20, 2002 01:31PM

Thanks for all responses! Marc, the site you pointed to is excellent with plenty of solid, hard data.
As for the US diesels, I would be inclined to believe the FM design to have lower sfc. If I understood Friedman´s book right, FM engine was based on Junkers´s opposed piston idea. Those Jumo diesels (Jumo 205, 207) did have quite low sfc, about 170 g/hp/h.
Rainer, according to the manbw site their designs now have an sfc of 128-132 g/hp/h. Of course, different energy content may explain something. On the other hand one gets the impression that current NOx limitations do limit possibilities of sfc reduction. One idea worth trying might be turbocompounding. Anyone knows if it´s been tried on marine engines?

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diesel fuel consumptions (attn Rainer cool smiley Jukka Juutinen 12/13/2002 12:13PM
Re: diesel fuel consumptions (attn Rainer cool smiley Marc Cimon 12/15/2002 03:12PM
Re: diesel fuel consumptions (attn Rainer cool smiley ROBERT M. 12/15/2002 03:29PM
Re: diesel fuel consumptions (attn Rainer cool smiley J.T. McDaniel 12/15/2002 06:12PM
Re: diesel fuel consumptions (attn Rainer cool smiley Rainer Bruns 12/15/2002 10:18PM
Re: diesel fuel consumptions Kaleut Nemo 12/16/2002 09:55PM
Re: diesel fuel consumptions Rainer Bruns 12/17/2002 01:42AM
Re: diesel fuel consumptions Kaleut Nemo 12/17/2002 05:11PM
Re: diesel fuel consumptions (attn Rainer cool smiley Jukka Juutinen 12/20/2002 01:31PM
Re: diesel fuel consumptions (attn Rainer cool smiley Marc Cimon 12/20/2002 11:37PM


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