Fuel consumption Definition and 38 Threads

I have to calculate how much fuel is wasted, when you do not fix a load in a vehicle. So lets say there is a heavy box sitting in an almost empty truck. If this box moves how much fuel is lost? Or if you fix the box, how much fuel do you save?

When car drive uphill, gravity/weight has drag component, that is reason why you must add more throttle compare to ligther car at same constant speed uphill. So logicaly car increase fuel consumption. But if you drive downhill, gravity/weight has thrust component, so your top speed("terminal...

Car has drag coeffecient of 0.35 and drink 5L/100km, if car Cd is reduced to 0.20 and everthying else stay the same(frontal area,power,weight etc),how much will car drink? Is it possible to calcualte this or we need something more? I am interested if exist direct link/formula between Cd and...

Hi, Could you please help me with the queries below? Question 1: A GPS satellite is moving faster than the earth, for every day on Earth the clock on the satellite shows one day minus 7 microseconds due to time dilation due to special relativity. However, since the Earth's gravitational pull...

Hi fellows. I am dealing with the following question and any help to solve it will be a huge favor. Let us consider a nuclear power plant which delivers 100 MWe. The plant is based on a Rankine cycle, where the steam exiting the reactor is at 350 C and water exits the condenser at 20 C. The...

Hello, I am currently facing a problem. I'm on a project and trying to create an "engine fuel consumption map (engine torque / engine speed)" among other things. Unfortunately, the engine torque is not measured in my measurements. More specifically, the "actual engine - percent torque (OBD PID...

I was looking at the technical specs of Porsche 911. It has 427 kW power and 7.5 liters/100 km fuel consumption on highway. I made a quick calculation but I got strange result. Please tell me why ; First I assumed that the car has 90 km/h constant speed on highway so it will take 1.11 hours to...

hello i am new here. I am facing a problem in fuel gauge that when i drive for a long time on hills it start to show false value. I decided to solve this problem i have a gyro and known resistance from fuel tank of my car and now i want to have true value all the time please help me with it or...

I was wondering about the amount of fuel used for a given journey. My model is that the same journey is made at two different constant speeds I have assumed that instantaneous fuel consumption is proportional to the power produced by the engine at that point. I an ignoring rolling resistance...

I don't know how to determine the fuel consumption rate of a gas burner and would like to seek for help. Also, is there any relationship between the number of rings of gas burner and the fuel consumption rate?

Homework Statement A boiler is to produce 6250 kg/h of steam superheated by 40 oC at a pressure of 2.1 MN/m2. The temperature of the feedwater is 50 oC. If the thermal efficiency of the boiler is 70%, how much fuel oil will be consumed in one hour? The calorific value of the fuel oil used is...

Hello everyone. I'm currently doing a research on aircraft performance for my school project, which require me to design an airfoil to suit a specific mission. I'm not very familiar with the formulas used for calculating the aircraft performance and I would like to seek help from the forum...

Hi I am working on Bio Gas Project and I want to know calculations/Formulas to find out elements of Generator. I am MBA students and i have to submit my project report with to start up new firm on renewable energy. Please submit can share your knowledge to help me.

Hi, so I was wondering about how the car's LED, MP3/IPOD, AC systems consumes up electrical power and then to fuel? Let's say that the loads are running for 5-7 hours. Thanks for the replies/ideas!

when an object moves relative to something it experiences time at a slower rate right? now let's assume that an rocket moves 99.99% the speed of light, then what will be the rate of fuel consumption? will it remain the same or it will increase/decrease?

Homework Statement (I'm learning all of this in German, so I apologize if something is translated incorrectly.) So last week we started calculus of variations, and I'm rather confused about how to approach the following problem: The fuel consumption of a vehicle per unit of time is expressed...

Homework Statement Distance = Speed / Time Speed = Distance / Time Distance = Speed * Time Also breaking up "chunks of time" in an hour 2 of 30 mins 3 of 20 mins 4 of 15 mins 5 of 12 mins 10 of 6 mins 12 of 5 mins 15 of 4 mins 20 of 3 mins 30 of 2 mins Homework Equations 1) An example of an...

What I know is there 2 friction; Air resistance and Weight of rotor? Is load of generator consider as friction? I noticed that when generator's load is half, fuel consumption is reduced (but RPM and frequency is still same). I tried to think how that, although weight of rotor is constant. does...

Homework Statement A rocket which has an exhaust speed of 8.0 km/s is to have a vertical acceleration of 8.0 m/s2. If the initial mass of the rocket is 6.0x106 kg, at what minimum rate must the rocket consume fuel? Homework Equations F = ma F = RVREL The Attempt at a Solution F...

A rocket, which is in deep space and initially at rest relative to an inertial reference frame, has a mass of 59.5E5 kg, of which 7.39E5 kg is fuel. The rocket engine is then fired for 300 s, during which fuel is consumed at the rate of 480 kg/s. The speed of the exhaust products relative to the...

I guess that if the answer is "yes" then the difference will be neglectable, but anyway... I was wondering if during winter, fuel is less efficient than summer. During summer, there is some extra energy content in the fuel, due to increased temperature. This extra energy is added to the energy...

I expect to be shot down in flames but I don't mine one bit. I have just done a bit of a drive in my 28 year old Nissan Bluebird Wagon about 10% city 90% HWY...NO Fancy EFI systems or direct injection here just a plain old carburetor running slightly rich at idle. I just did a rough...

Homework Statement A boiler is to produce 6250 kg/h of steam superheated by 40 oC at a pressure of 2.1 MN/m2. The temperature of the feedwater is 50 oC. If the thermal efficiency of the boiler is 70%, how much fuel oil will be consumed in one hour? The calorific value of the fuel oil used is...

Why are usually more wasteful fuel engine at low RPM, as the example image below, 900 RPM more wasteful fuel consumption than 1600 RPM.

I'm doing some research into advances in aircraft and need to calculate some (rough) values for aircraft consumption per passenger. The only method I can think of is calculating the maximum fuel weight at maximum payload (Maximum Take Off Weight (MTOW) - Maximum Zero Fuel Weight (MZFW)) and...

Homework Statement The fuel consumption of a river boat is kv3 litres per hour where k is a constant and v km/h is it's speed through the water throughout this question v > 4 km/h. i) determine the fuel consumption for a trip of x km against a current of 4km/h and find the speed at which...

Hi everyone, I hope I have posted in the right place. I'm a commerce student and have absolutely no idea about mechanical stuffs. My father has an idea in mind which he would love to implement. He too is a commerce student. Hence, I need some help from you'll to see if this is really practical...

Imagine this scenario: An "airplane" that runs on some type of fuel, let's say, liquid, reaches 90% of the speed of light. Once it achieves this speed, will the ship require less fuel due to time dilation, the same amount of fuel due to time dilation, or more fuel to maintain a constant...

how do we calculate friction power from the graph of total fuel consumption versus brake power?

is it true that fuel efficiency is better in a 4stroke engine ? since the number of strokes are more in case of a 4stroke engine,the energy required would be more ,right?

Hi everyone, new poster here. :) Came across this forum the other day and found quite a few nice topics that were interesting and the people sounded like they knew their stuff ... so i joined. Now the question... I am interested in fuel efficiency as regards the engine capacity. For...

Homework Statement Rocket with fuel mass of m(initial) Rocket without fuel is m(final) Time for fuel to be used up is t(final) Homework Equations What is m(t) (slope of m vs t graph) (i assume t(initial) is zero The Attempt at a Solution [((m(final) -m(initial)) / t(final)]t +...

hi, recall the familiar round trip - it's more or less the same as in this arXiv article (http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0604/0604025v3.pdf) - round trip with acceleration g. me and my friends were wondering the following: imagine that the passenger abroad the rocket travels for 4...

The weight of a rocket is 80kN at the instant it takes off , and the products of the combusion are ejected at a velocity of 0.60 kms-1 relative to the rocket. Calculate the rate at which the rocket must be consuming fuel in order to take off vertically. Ans: 134kgs-1 Cant find a solution...

Homework Statement I posted int he other section but not sure if that area was a bit high maths I have this questions an answer to it would be great. .Q.1 At t minutes after an engine starts, the rate of fuel consumption is Rkg per minute. it is given by R=10+ 10/2t+1. a) Sketch R as...

Greetings! Would anyone know about how much fuel does a Harrier aircraft (with the Pegasus Turbo fan engine) consume when taking off verticaly? I tried searching the net with no success. Thank You Chris

Hi, Does anybody know how to calculate the fuel consumption of a car? Any help would be great Thanks Alex

I've got a little question here. Basically we've got this guy named "B" driving a straight track with a high constant velocity u. His buddy, "C" on the side of the track measures B's fuel consumption to be dn/dt. Now C filled the tank with just enough gas to make it the distance of the track...