Hi everyone,
Let's say I have an external gear pump driven by the camshaft of a marine diesel engine. The nominal speed of the engine is 1800 rpm and the capacity of the pump at nominal speed is 8 L/min. Diesel fuel is supplied to the gear pump suction at 0.4 bar g pressure via a 15 mm pipe...
I have an ultrasonic flowmeter on the supply fuel line measuring volumetric flow rate to a MWM marine diesel generator engine. I also have an equivalent flowmeter on the return fuel line. The capacity at nominal engine speed of 1800 rpm is 8 l/min. The supply line is branched off the fuel supply...