The design, construction and test of a direct reading engine indicator (1917)
Tower, Alexander McJunkin, Siegmund, Humphreys Oliver · leaf 50
re, while another may exhaust into 26 or 28inches of vacuum. Obviously then since mean effective pressure isnot dependent on exhaust pressure but on the difference between themean power-3troke pressure, some scheme had to be devised to takecare of the back-pressure into which the engine was… … Fig. 22. Typical Steam Indicator Card. the ordinates represented by the lines yy will give the mean pres-sure above atmosphere. In the cylinder, however, we are not con-cerned with this average but with the mean pressure above theminimum cylinder pressure. The distance between the atmosphere…
Internal combustion engines · Theses
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