Fuel consumption measurement

[nm2007k]

How to measure the fuel consumed by a vehicle without disturbing the fuel flow path. please help me.

 

[tpetar]

How to measure the fuel consumed by a vehicle without disturbing the fuel flow path. please help me.

You can use car computer data, if car computer provide that informations, that depends from car model.

 

[betwixt]

You would have to average the reading over at least several seconds but the non-invasive way would be to monitor the remaining fuel level rather than fuel flow. I think commercial units work by measuring vacuum at the air intake rather than fuel flow as these are closely related.

There are other methods, such as Doppler measurments in the fuel pipe which you can do with RF or ultrasonics but they are quite complicated technologies.

Brian.

 

[tpetar]

https://www.rlocman.ru/shem/schematics.html?di=49958
https://code.google.com/p/xarias/
https://www.rlocman.ru/shem/schematics.html?di=46685

Also you have firmware source, you can adjust screen to your needs.

 

[nm2007k]

How measuring vacuum at the air intake helps in determining the
Fuel consumption.

 

[betwixt]

I'm not sure of the exact relationship but I would guess it relies on the greater air demand from an engine under heavier load (bugger gulps!) and as fuel is drawn in on the air stream it has a relationship with fuel flow rate. Possibly the vacuum measurement and engine revs can be used together in a calculation. Whether it applies in the case of fuel injected gasoline or Diesel engines I could't honestly tell you.

Brian.