For today's class there was the second group of people doing their presentations that did not do their presentations last week. This meant that there was no real need for Jal and I to go to class.
However we had been slacking somewhat to seeing Anura on our progress for the technology project. For this reason I pushed for the decision to go and see him today. Once again we had encountered a few problems with cooling the exhaust brake. However Anura told us that since there is no cooling system on standard exhaust brakes then this should not be a problem for our exhaust brake. This certainly makes the design concept on solid works much easier for us.
The other issue that we discussed was that Gerry told us that the turbo's oil seals would not be capable of handling the exhaust back pressure. However since these seals are made of aluminium alloys they are in-fact very strong. Anura said that the issue of back pressure on the oil seals is not actually and issue at all which is certainly relieving.
Lastly Anura told us that we should have some tangible data to use for our project. For this reason he said we can do exhaust pressure testing on the Mercedes diesel engine that is located at building 100. This will certainly make doing our calculations much easier than before as we now are able to have a starting point.
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