Description:
The Single Cylinder Engine Range provides a self-contained engine test rig that enables students to investigate a range of engine performance characteristics.
The unit is designed to be linked to the user’s computer or touch screen, linked to supplied software with sophisticated control and data acquisition.
This a self-contained integrated, single-cylinder engine, dynamometer and instrumentation system, based on a range of gasoline and diesel industrial engines.
The utilises an eddy-current dynamometer to provide a variable load on the engine, enabling the characteristic power and torque curves to be reproduced in the laboratory dependent upon which sensor options are ordered. This multi-purpose test rig is designed to accept a series of Armfield gasoline and diesel engines available separately. The system comes complete with instrumentation, including rpm measurement, torque (from which power can be calculated), airflow and exhaust temperature. Other optional sensors can be purchased to further enhance the teaching capabilities of the including cylinder pressure sensors and fuel consumption.
Experimental Content:
- Plotting of torque and power curves
- Determination of specific fuel consumption (option)
- Determination of volumetric efficiency and lambda (fuel-air ratio)
- Determination of the frictional power of the engine
- Cylinder pressure measurements
- Definition and use of an electronic cylinder pressure indication system (option)
- P-V diagram (optional sensor required)
- Exhaust calorimetry
Technical Specification
- Engine Specification
- Petrol engine
- Single-cylinder air-cooled four-stroke OHV
- Power output: 4.8HP (3.5kW)
- Displacement: 163cm³
- Diesel engine
- Single-cylinder, direct-injection air-cooled diesel engine
- Power output: 4.8HP (3.5kW)
- Displacement: 243cm³
- Dynamometer data
- Dynamometer type: Eddy current
- Cooling: Air-cooled
