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Assessing the Windage Tray Blockage Effect on Aeration in the Oil Sump
Technical Paper
2007-01-4109
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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The windage tray effect on aeration in the engine sump was assessed by replacing much of the windage tray materials with wire meshes of various blockages. The mesh was to prevent direct impact of the oil drops spinning off the crank shaft onto the sump oil, and simultaneously, to provide sufficient drainage so that there was no significant build up of windage tray oil film that would interact with these droplets. Aeration at the oil pump inlet was measured by X-ray absorption in a production V-6 SI engine motoring at 2000 to 6000 rpm. Within experimental uncertainty, these windage tray changes had no effect on aeration. Thus activities in the sump such as the interaction of the oil drops spun from the crank shaft with the sump oil or with the windage tray, and the agitation of the sump oil by the crank case gas, were not major contributors to aeration at the pump inlet.
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Baran, B. and Cheng, W., "Assessing the Windage Tray Blockage Effect on Aeration in the Oil Sump," SAE Technical Paper 2007-01-4109, 2007, https://doi.org/10.4271/2007-01-4109.Also In
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