Top 7 Amazing Facts About Turbocharger

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• Turbo speed: The turbine of the turbocharger spins very fast. When your car's engine is running at 2,000 rpm, the turbocharger's turbine can rotate at speeds in excess of 280,000 rpm. This means that the turbine of the turbocharger rotates approximately 140 times faster than the engine.
• Low Fuel Consumption: Using a turbocharger with a small engine saves fuel. In diesel engines, adding a turbo can increase fuel efficiency by up to 40%, and in petrol engines, it can increase by up to 20%
• Turocharger design: Manufacturing and designing turbocharger parts require a high degree of accuracy. Sometimes, the difference in their size can be even smaller than the width of a human hair.
• Turbo temperature: Turbochargers Works at very high temperatures. The average temperature of the exhaust gas of a diesel turbocharger is 800°C, and the turbo of a petrol engine can heat up to 1000°C, which is hot enough to melt window glass.
• Oil pressure: If the engine's oil pressure drops down, the turbocharger is the first to fail. Dirty oil, low-quality oil, and oil with the wrong viscosity can also damage the turbocharger
• HIgh speed turbine blade: Turbocharger turbine blades are made from high nickel alloys, similar to those used in jet aircraft engines. These blades spin at speeds of up to 850 mph, and the exhaust gases passing through them are supersonic.
• Turbo oil: Fully synthetic oils and mineral oils do not mix because the good qualities of synthetic oils are lost. Sometimes, when both are mixed it becomes thick and can coagulate.