The internal combustion engine; being a text book on gas, oil and petrol engines, for the use of students and engineers (1909)
Wimperis, Harry Egerton, 1876- · New York, Van Nostrand · leaf 320
points out that by altering the compressionratio from the 3-5 customary with petrol engines to 5-0about 20 per cent, more power could be obtained than theR.A.C. rating would give. The R.A.C. rating depends on the fact that with fixedpiston speed and a constant value for the mean pressure theh.p.… … US Q U) o <*) ^2 cm cnfZs)sdqcui pue sajqaujmiy ui japu///Cj jc SqSlUBIQ 300 THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE when worked under the same conditions, which is not thecase. If D2 be multiplied by the expression^ 1—— ) as pro-portional to the efficiency, the result is to obtain the expres-sion D(D—1)…
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