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Q What is the difference between a turbocharger and a turbo-converter? Has a turbo-converter been applied to an engine?
29th September 1967, Page 123
29th September 1967
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Page 123, 29th September 1967
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What is the difference between a turbocharger and a turbo-converter? Has a turbo-converter been applied to an engine?
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While the turbine of an exhaust-driven turbocharger is used to drive a compressor that pressure-charges the cylinders of an engine normally a diesel----the turbine of a turbo-converter is geared to the output shaft of an engine and in this way the output of the unit is increased without raising the cylinder pressure.
No details have yet been released of a practical application of a turbo-converter, but it is understood that systems in the design stage have been mentioned in German publications,