Abstract
Oil consumption in today’s internal combustion
engines has become a major concern. There are various
methods available today in industry to measure engine oil
consumption. However, the slow process of oil consumption
during engine operation presents a big challenge in a quick
and accurate measurement. This acts as a big hindrance for
oil consumption studies. Existing measurement methods are
very expensive, require huge resources for setup, time
consuming, not portable and involve various sources of errors.
In this paper, first a review of the various techniques available
for petrol and diesel engines along with their advantages and
disadvantages are presented. Then a simple and a reliable
method which bridges the gap between cost, time and accuracy
between existing measurement techniques is proposed.
Results obtained from the present method are compared with
existing method and the error is quantified. It was found the
drain and measure method consistently over predicts the oil
consumption by about 20%.
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