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What is the significance of brake thermal efficiency? View All


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Niel
Brake Thermal Efficiency is defined as break power of a heat engine as a function of the thermal input from the fuel.

It is used to evaluate how well an engine converts the heat from a fuel to mechanical energy.

Niel Leon
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12 years ago

Source: [1] The Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice: Vol. 1 - 2nd Edition, Revised, Charles Fayette Taylor - Equation 1-4


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