[Gasification] Homemade gas turbines

[Viswanathan KS]

Efficiency of small gas turbines would be less than 20%, while IC engines
have an
efficiency of about 25% with petrol as fuel and about 35% with diesel as
fuel

K.S. Viswanathan


On 7/16/07, Harmon Seaver <hseaver at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Michael Redler wrote:
> > Harmon wrote: "Tubines suck for efficiency"
> >
> > Internal combustion engines and gas turbines are typically comparable to
> each other and some statistics even state that turbine efficiencies are
> better than ICE engines.
> >
>
>   If turbines are as efficient as IC engines, it's funny they've never
> caught on in cars and trucks. And one place where they were more
> recently tried, the US military tanks, they have been replaced at great
> expense with diesels to get more range.
>
>
> --
> Harmon Seaver
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