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Originally Posted by Air-Hybrid
"TIGERS (Turbogenerator Integrated Gas Energy Recovery System) is a water cooled switched reluctance generator coupled to an exhaust driven turbine. It is capable of operating in exhaust temperatures > 900ºC, at speeds up to 80,000rpm, delivering a shaft power of 6kW"
Controlled Power Technologies... TIGERS |
Good find,
I would like to see a side by side study done on two identical vehicles, one std the other with the Turbo generator for say 5,000km, then swap the turbo unit over to other vehicle. Use the same driver for bothe vehicles, but driver is not aware whether the vehicle is std or with Turbo Gen.
Everything else in the vehicles must be identical and just using an appropriate section (same length as turbo) in the exhaust on the non turbo vehicle, so flow charachteristics are not modified in any way.
Fuel economy could be compared effectively then.
That type of evaluation would then prove conclusively if it was a viable concept.