Advances in the Use of Tritium as a Radiotracer for Oil Consumption Measurement
881583
10/01/1988
- Event
- Content
- The oil consumption of a turbocharged, aftercooled direct-injection truck diesel engine was measured using a tritium-tracer technique. The advantages of the method over other chemical and radioactive tracers are described, and supplemented with data from radioanalysis of tritiated oils. As a proportion of fuel consumption, the oil consumption was shown to range from <0.1% to >0.4% depending upon the engine's load and speed, with the highest consumption at idle and at full load conditions. The mass consumption rate ranged from 6 g/h at light load, low speed to 230 g/h at full load, rated speed. The contribution of consumed oil to another truck engine's particulate-bound hydrocarbon emission was shown to be greatest at light and intermediate loads and negligible at high loads. The implications of these observations on diesel particulate control are discussed.
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- 15
- Citation
- Shore, P., "Advances in the Use of Tritium as a Radiotracer for Oil Consumption Measurement," SAE Technical Paper 881583, 1988, https://doi.org/10.4271/881583.