Thanks, Quark. This is also how I calculated the power. But it looks too low... even with drag and friction added.
For a normal Electric Vehicle I found on Web 'typical' hp is much higher than this, ~20hp.
Anyway, now I have Hp, how then do I select the correct DC motor? or how do I know...
I want to verify that a vendor is giving me the correct sized electric motor for a vehicle (hp, amp, voltage, etc.) How can I do this?
The car must travel 8kph; carry 1000kg load (exclude driver). Top speed can be reached in 5-10secs. It runs on 4 vulcanised wheels (like golf carts). The...
There is no simple answer to this question. It's same as asking how much BTU is in VOC? You'll need to know much more about this vapour before we can theoretically estimate the "potential energy content".
In the absence of utlimate analysis, carbon and hydrogen content may be estimated using Seyler's Correlation:
C=0.95x((CV/41868)-((1.1xVM)/3))+0.434
H=0.069x((CV/41868)+VM)-0.0286
where C - carbon (%); H - hydrogen (%), VM - volatile matter (%) and CV calorific value (kJ/kg).
Net CV is Gross CV...
