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Re: Diesel Power and Smoke
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 2/9/2009

Good example of what I am talking about.

You can see that the O2 hangs about 16% and CO2 about 4%. This means (since there is about 21% O2 in the air) that the exhaust being measured is 3/4 unused air - with only 1/4 air being used for the actual combustion.... Login to read more.