BOBCAT Fuel Consumption Testing

at ShuttleX Transportation, LLC. (Allentown, PA)

A Bobcat Loader with a 4 cyl. Diesel engine ran at a
fixed throttle for 8 hours a day. Hourly fuel
consumption rate, gallons per hour (GPH), was
computed for each run. To investigate efficacy
different numbers of IR ceramics were used during
testing and hot air from exhaust pipe was redirected
to increase the ceramics temperature. The GPH data
for various configurations are drawn against a
baseline of 1.387 GPH in the following graph.

GPH

number of IR ceramics in use

Ceramics temp increased to 190F

dg

all ceramics removed

1.42

1.40

Baseline = 1.387 GPH

1.38

1.36

1.34

1.32

1.30

1.28

1.26

1.24
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Data point (each data point represents an 8-hour engine run)

Baseline was established running 14 consecutive 8 hr days with a fixed throttle( no operator)

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