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Car's Future: How Turbochargers Work in Cars.....

Saturday, February 7, 2009

How Turbochargers Work in Cars.....


When people talk about race cars or highly-performance sports cars, the matter of turbochargers usually comes up. Turbochargers also come out on large diesel engines. A turbo can drastically boost an engine's horsepower without drastically increasing its weight, which is the enormous benefit that makes turbos so famous…..

Now we'll learn how a turbocharger boosts the power output of an engine while existing extreme operating conditions. We'll also find out how waste gates, ceramic turbine blades and ball bearings help turbochargers to perform their job even better. Turbochargers are a type of forced initiation system. They compress the air flowing into the engine (see How Car Engines Work for a explanation of airflow in a usual engine). The mane benefit of compressing the air is that it lets the engine press more air into a cylinder, and more air means that additional fuel can be added. So, you get more power from every explosion in every cylinder. A turbocharged engine makes more power overall than the normal engine without the charging. This can significantly recover the power to weight ratio for the engine.

In order to attain this boost, the turbochargers apply the exhaust flow from the engine to spin a turbine, which in turn spins an air pump. The speed of turbocharger is 155,000 rotations per minute, which are 30 times faster then others.

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