The petrol pumps at our local supermarket have been upgraded. There is now a button that you can press on the diesel pump to give a fast delivery. You unhook the nozzle, press the button and you get diesel at the super-fast rate of 5 metres cubed per hour.
This is handy to know if you need to fill a 5 metre-cubed fuel tank; you can do it in an hour. Or even a one metre-cubed one; you can fill it in 12 minutes. The time to fill a normal car fuel tank of capacity say, about 80 litres needs a bit of calculation. I hope you have a calculator handy.
5 metres cubed per hour is 5,000 litres in 3,600 seconds, or about 1.4 litres/second, or say 10 litres in 7 seconds. So you can fill an 80 litre tank in just under a minute.
A posted delivery rate of 1.4 litres/sec would be helpful; 7 seconds for 10 litres might be even better. But 5m per hour is useless.
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
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It's also useless unless you know how fast your tank can accept the fuel and expel the air.
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