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Old 02-28-2012, 09:32 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by serialk11r View Post
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A good way to measure pumping losses would be to compare the manifold temperature to the temperature that air would be at if adiabatically expanded to the manifold pressure. The difference in thermal energy is the pumping loss.
but to make it into horsepower energy you have to measure CFM moving.

if there is no air moving, then there is no work being done. The more CFM, the more work being done.

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