During transport using vehicles with combustion engine emissions are created and these are harmful for the environment. In Sweden more than one fourth of the air emissions come from the transport sector. The emissions are strongly correlated to consumed fuel. Few studies using tractors have been performed in this area and therefore it is of great interest to study this. In this work, the relation between fuel consumption and speed, mass and road conditions during transport with an agricultural tractor was studied to perform field measurement continuously. A system for continuously logging fuel consumption, speed and position was developed. The main components of the instrumentation system were a fuel flow meter, a GPS receiver, a so called 5:th wheel and a computer with the software LabView. The computer logged all measured data, processed and presented it on a screen. All data were saved in a log file.
Inverkan av Hastighet och Vaegfoerhallande pa Braenslefoerbrukning vid Koerning med Traktor (Effects of Speed and Road Conditions on Fuel Consumption of Agricultural Tractor)
2003
62 pages
Report
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English