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    Sankey Diagrams For Automotive Engines

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    This document discusses Sankey diagrams, which illustrate the input and output of energy for systems like power stations and machines. It provides examples of Sankey diagrams for a coal-fired power station, nuclear power station, internal combustion engines running on petrol and diesel, and the human body, showing the percentages of primary fuel input that are converted to electrical or kinetic energy output versus lost as waste heat. It also notes a useful website for learning more about energy use and resources.

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    This document discusses Sankey diagrams, which illustrate the input and output of energy for systems like power stations and machines. It provides examples of Sankey diagrams for a coal-fired power station, nuclear power station, internal combustion engines running on petrol and diesel, and the human body, showing the percentages of primary fuel input that are converted to electrical or kinetic energy output versus lost as waste heat. It also notes a useful website for learning more about energy use and resources.

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    Sankey diagrams showing losses in an automotive engine.

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    This document discusses Sankey diagrams, which illustrate the input and output of energy for systems like power stations and machines. It provides examples of Sankey diagrams for a coal-fired power station, nuclear power station, internal combustion engines running on petrol and diesel, and the human body, showing the percentages of primary fuel input that are converted to electrical or kinetic energy output versus lost as waste heat. It also notes a useful website for learning more about energy use and resources.

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    Sankey Diagrams For Automotive Engines

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    This document discusses Sankey diagrams, which illustrate the input and output of energy for systems like power stations and machines. It provides examples of Sankey diagrams for a coal-fired power station, nuclear power station, internal combustion engines running on petrol and diesel, and the human body, showing the percentages of primary fuel input that are converted to electrical or kinetic energy output versus lost as waste heat. It also notes a useful website for learning more about energy use and resources.

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    Sankey diagrams

    These diagrams are a way of looking at the input and output of energy for a power station
    or indeed any type of machine.
    Coal fired power station
    Waste heat
    energy

    70%

    Primary fuel
    (coal)

    100%

    Electrical
    energy

    30%

    Nuclear power station (AGR)


    Waste heat
    energy
    58%

    Primary fuel
    (uranium
    2.5% U235)

    100%
    42%

    Electrical
    energy

    Internal combustion engine (petrol)

    70%

    Primary fuel
    (petrol)

    Waste heat
    energy

    100%
    30%

    Kinetic
    energy

    Internal combustion engine (diesel)

    60%

    Primary fuel
    (diesel)

    Waste heat
    energy

    100%
    40%

    Kinetic
    energy

    Human body
    Waste heat
    energy
    75%

    Primary fuel
    (food)

    100%
    25%

    Kinetic
    energy

    Note:
    A very useful site for the study of energy use and resources is:
    http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/tacis/publications/tdp/energy/learn_about_energy.pdf

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