What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Oil Consumption?

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According the Weng and Richardson (2000) the differences between the many different methods of measuring oil consumption in diesel engines and the Cummins Smart Oil Consumption Measuring System are reliability and accuracy. The article talks about a few older methods of measuring oil consumption such as the gravity fed system, oil level change rate system, oil pump system, etc. Then the authors describe how each of these works and then detail the advantages and disadvantages of each system, finally ending with an in-depth explanation of the Cummins system along with its advantages and disadvantages. A gravity fed system is method of measuring oil consumption that is described by the authors. It has been used since the 1980’s and is a simple system but has many parts to it. Basically how the system works is there is an oil cart attached to the engine which contains two tanks, a weigh tank and float tank. The same pressure is maintained in both the engine and cart by a vent tube. As the oil is consumed by the engine the float in the float tank opens a valve and allows oil from the we...

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