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- Subject: Re: Subject: Soviet Air-cooled diesel engines
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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 9 Jan 93 21:16:00 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
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- -> "Adiabatic" is the correct term. It refers to a thermodynamic
- -> assumption that the heat engine process has no external transfer of
- -> heat. It is not really achieved in a real system, but
- -> efficiency is gained if heat losses to a cooling system are
- -> minimized.
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- I guess I'm a little more stringent than you are. So instead of
- rejecting the heat to the radiator, it joins with what's going out the
- exhaust pipe. Big deal.
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