2012•Advanced materials researchOpen access

Fuel Consumption Instrument for Diesel Locomotive Test Based on Siphon Principle

Li Gang Cun, Bao Xia Zhang, Haiming Zhang, Zhong Cui Miao, Yong Xiang An

Abstract

The design of a fuel consumption instrument for diesel locomotive including its working principle, hardware and software is presented in this paper. As one of constituent parts of overall performance test system for DF series diesel locomotive, it is applied to measure the fuel level in the tank of diesel locomotive based on Siphon Principle, collect and process data, output or store the fuel consumption in the overall performance test.

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Key concepts: Diesel locomotive, Diesel fuel, Automotive engineering, Engineering, Fuel efficiency, Measure (data warehouse), Process (computing), Diesel engine