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Diesel Engine Practice Questions

The document contains 6 homework problems about calculating various metrics like thermal efficiency, indicated mean effective pressure, brake power, indicated power, brake horsepower, frictional horsepower, air-fuel ratio, mechanical efficiency, and brake thermal efficiency for different diesel engines given specifications like bore, stroke, speed, fuel consumption, heating value, pressure, torque, etc. Formulas are used to calculate the requested values for each problem.

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Diesel Engine Practice Questions

The document contains 6 homework problems about calculating various metrics like thermal efficiency, indicated mean effective pressure, brake power, indicated power, brake horsepower, frictional horsepower, air-fuel ratio, mechanical efficiency, and brake thermal efficiency for different diesel engines given specifications like bore, stroke, speed, fuel consumption, heating value, pressure, torque, etc. Formulas are used to calculate the requested values for each problem.

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Homework

1. A four-stroke, 8 cylinder diesel engine with bore and stroke of 9 inches and 12 inches
respectively and speed of 950 rpm has a brake mean effective pressure of 164 psi. The specific
fuel consumption is 0.39 lb/bhp-hr and the fuel heating value is 18500 BTU/lb. Determine the
thermal efficiency.
Ans. 35.27%

2. A four-stroke 394 mm bore and 534 mm stroke single-acting diesel engine with four cylinders is
guaranteed to deliver 350 BHp at 300 rpm. The engine consumed 66.8 kg/hr of fuel with a
heating value of 44251 kJ/kg. Calculate the indicated mean effective pressure in kPa if
mechanical efficiency is 89%.
Ans. 450.65 kPa

3. A 305 mm x 457 mm four stroke single acting diesel engine is rated at 150 kW at 260 rpm. Fuel
consumption at rated load is 0.26 kg/kW-hr with a heating value of 43912 kJ/kg. Calculate the
thermal efficiency.
Ans. 31.63%

4. A four cylinder, 4 stroke cycle, 20 x 25 cm x 550 rpm diesel engine has a mean effective pressure
of 150 psi. Calculate the brake power in kW if engine efficiency is 88%.
Ans. 131.01 kW

5. A six cylinder, four stroke diesel engine with 76 mm bore x 89 mm stroke was run in the
laboratory at 200 rpm, when it was found that the engine torque was 153.5 N-m with all the
cylinders firing but 123 N-m when one cylinder was out. The engine consumed 12.2 kg of fuel
per hour with a heating value of 54120 kJ/kg of air at 15.6 deg.C. Determine the indicated power.
Ans. 38.33 kW

6. A single-acting, four-cylinder, 4 stroke cycle diesel engine with a bore and stroke of 21.59 cm x
27.94 cm, operating at 275 rpm, consumes 8.189 kg/hr of fuel whose heating value is 43961.4
kJ/kg. The indicated mean effective pressure is 475.7 kPa. The load on the brake arm, which is
93.98 cm is 113.4 kg. Determine the following:
a. Brake horsepower
b. Frictional Horsepower
c. Air-fuel ratio if volumetric efficiency is 70%. Air density is 1.3 kg/m3
d. Mechanical Efficiency
e. Brake thermal efficiency
f. Clearance volume if compression ratio of engine is 18.

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