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AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST FLOW AND TEMPERATURE
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AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST FLOW AND TEMPERATURE

AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST FLOW AND TEMPERATURE

(OP)
I need to design an exhaust extraction fan system.
What is the temperature and flow rate exiting the exhaust pipe?  Where could I find this information??
Thanks

RE: AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST FLOW AND TEMPERATURE

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RE: AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST FLOW AND TEMPERATURE

What kind of car (or whatever your working on) are you asking about? It depends on how lean/rich the engine your working on.....if we're even talking about a car here. I think 900 degrees at the header sounds familiar. Of course it would be less at the rear of the car.

Barney Demonbreun
Technician for Gary Force Acura, and owner of;
Ashland Motorsports
1304 Big Marrowbone Rd.
Ashland City, Tn. 37015

RE: AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST FLOW AND TEMPERATURE

The answer to your question involves so many different variables it's impossible to answer with no more information than you've stated: Diesel or gasoline?
Nat. aspirated or blown?
RPM?
Load?
and the list goes on.

Here's your best bet:
run a test. Get a thermocouple and a reader;  you can even use one like the Sears DVOM that has a thermocouple reader function.

"One test is worth a thousand expert opinions."

RE: AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST FLOW AND TEMPERATURE

Rob, You forgot - publish your results here and we'll pull them apart.

Cheers

Greg Locock

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RE: AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST FLOW AND TEMPERATURE

Pinney, temperature could be just about anything.

I believe flow usually works out around 2.2 CFM per horsepower when the exhaust has expanded back to atmospheric pressure. That will be a very rough starting point only. It is usual to have a much larger extraction system than that, and allow plenty of ambient air to bleed into it right at the header discharge point.

RE: AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST FLOW AND TEMPERATURE

Is the question about exhaust extraction from a dyno room, or about exhaust scavenging an engine

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RE: AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST FLOW AND TEMPERATURE

Greg:
"Rob, You forgot - publish your results here and we'll pull them apart."
LOL!
Yes,  there's always that!

But to geet back to Pinney's question:
You could always assume 100% volumetric efficiency and sufficient length of pipe to drop the gas temperature to 500 F or so.  
E.g., 300 cubic inch engine running 4000 rpm would produce 600,000 cubic inches of exhaust per minute x 1160/560 = 719 cfm.
call it 800 cfm and you should have your dyno room (if that's what it is) covered.

RE: AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST FLOW AND TEMPERATURE

The equation in our handbook is to take the cfm of intake air (which includes the volumetric efficiency) and multiply it by 2.4 for a gasoline engine or 2.0 for a diesel.

This is probably more of a rule of thumb type of equation but it has been used longer than I've been around, so it would have been thrown out long ago if it didn't work.

RE: AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST FLOW AND TEMPERATURE

That equation sounds like it would work just fine.

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