This week we had a second group of people doing their presentations. In short there was no need for us to go to class today. Me and Richard went into uni today to meet up with Anura and discuss the issues regarding our project.
We brought forwards all of the issues being raised in class the previous week and to our surprise Anura discarded all of them. Firstly the turbo spool up effect. Anura told us that a diesel turbo has seals made out of aluminum alloy and are rather very strong. Thus upon the incident of a turbo spool there would be no damage caused to the turbocharger. The second issue we had was regarding heat dissipation. For this issue Anura brought our attention to the current sytems running in trucks. He mentioned to us that they do not require heat dissipation so neither should our exhaust brake.
Lastly Anura suggested us to have some tangible information (practical work). He mentioned to us that Unitec has a common rail Mercedes Benz diesel engine which would be perfect for our project. We could use this engine and do exhaust pressure testing. These results would certainly make doing our calculations much easier. Also I believe doing practical work is far better than doing research as by doing this we physically learn and see where we are in regards to our issue and our project.
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