How to Measure the Fuel Consumption in Diesel Tanks Like Gallons Per Hour?
I am doing a project in which I am facing a problem to calculate the fuel efficiency of the excavator (runs with diesel). could you please suggest any method or any instrument which will be helpful for me. (as I mentioned I got to measure in fuel consumption in certain period of time)
thanks
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I used to drive tractors for a living, here is what i did. Fill up the fuel tank. Write down the hour meter of the excavator. Run the excavator. Fill the fuel tank from a service tank with a flowmeter on it. Check the hour meter again. Divide the fuel used by the time ran and bingo you have fuel used per hour.
put a half tank of gas in it and look not were the gas needle is then add a gallon and let it run until the needle returns to half.
then you have a simple math problem
minutes to return to half ……….. 60 minutes
………….. x………………………………………1 gallon
minutes to return to half multiplied by 1 gallon divided by 60 minutes should give you a decimal- and that how many gallons a hour
if you want it to be more specific then get all the gas out to the point were theres not enough to start then add a gallon- that should be enough to get it started or leave a little in the lines to get it going and see how long it takes to die
not sure how bad that is for your diesel
good luck