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Are engines more efficient in the cold?
Engine and transmission friction increases in cold temperatures due to cold engine oil and other drive-line fluids. It takes longer for your engine to reach its most fuel-efficient temperature. This affects shorter trips more, since your car spends more of your trip at less-than-optimal temperatures.
Why is a hot engine more efficient?
When an engine runs hotter, the air or air-fuel mixture it inhales into its cylinders becomes hotter before the intake valve closes. And, hot air is less dense than cold air and therefore burns less fuel.
What does the efficiency of a heat engine depend on?
Heat engine. Heat engine undergoing the Carnot cycle. In the Carnot cycle the magnitude of the heat transferred at T is proportional to the absolute temperature T. The efficiency only depends on the ratio of the absolute temperatures.
Why would an engine that is running at lower than normal temperatures be less efficient?
So lowering combustion temperature alone does not increase efficiency, in fact, using half the fuel actually decreases the net efficiency. They can operate at lower temperatures because one can burn mixtures having less fuel using compression ignition (with large r) than one can burn with conventional spark ignition.
Do cars run better in the winter or summer?
They run more efficient in warmer weather too as the engine oil isn’t thick as it would be in cold winter weather. Cars prefer very cool weather. When the weather is cool it is more rich in oxygen which cars use and because it is more rich in oxygen it more or less means the car becomes very slightly more powerful.
What does cold weather do to an engine?
During cold weather, an engine’s motor oil becomes thicker. It flows more slowly through the engine and is harder to pump through the engine block. This puts additional strain on your vehicle’s battery, which is weakened in cold weather . and must work harder to generate power that makes the engine turn.
Is hot weather or cold weather better for cars?
Cold (32 to 0 Fahrenheit) takes excess fuel to reach operating (200 to 230 Fahrenheit) temperature. Hot (90 to 120 Fahrenheit) makes the air less dense for down force, cooling and engine performance. They run more efficient in warmer weather too as the engine oil isn’t thick as it would be in cold winter weather.
How do you find the efficiency of a heat engine?
efficiency =WQH=1−TCTH. These temperatures are of course in degrees Kelvin, so for example the efficiency of a Carnot engine having a hot reservoir of boiling water and a cold reservoir ice cold water will be 1−(273/373)=0.27, just over a quarter of the heat energy is transformed into useful work.
Which engine has highest efficiency?
The steam turbine is the most efficient steam engine and for this reason is universally used for electrical generation. Steam expansion in a turbine is nearly continuous, which makes a turbine comparable to a very large number of expansion stages.
How can I make my engine more efficient?
- Run the engine fuel-lean, that is, use excess air. It is well known that fuel-lean running improves the efficiency.
- Higher compression ratio.
- We need new cycles put into practical use.
- Run the engine at optimum conditions, meaning low friction (modest engine speed) and low pumping work (air throttle more open).
Do engines run hotter in summer?
Car engines normally run at an optimum temperature of around 90°, but can run hotter in warm weather. That’s why it’s important to have a coolant/antifreeze that offers boil protection.