Monday, March 21, 2016

The Operation and Main Part of A Carburetor

Carburetor Parts is an engine part in which fuel and air mixed. In the internal combustion engine, chemical energy from the fuel is burnt into a combustion chamber, and then, it transforms into mechanical energy which eventually powers the motor of a vehicle. However, before fuel and air is transformed into mechanical energy by an internal combustion engine, it must first pass through the carburetor for it to be utilized. It is in the carburetor where the fuel, usually liquid gasoline, is atomized or changed into liquid vapor.
Want to know more about carburetor? It is better to recognize its components in advance. Generally speaking, there is a cylindrical hollow tube encasement in the carburetor which called throat or barrel. And inside the barrel are pistons. These pistons are solid cylinder disks that slide back and forth in the barrel. And they fit snugly into the barrel to allow it to move freely while they are also tight enough not to let air or fluid leak in the barrel. Meanwhile, as the piston move downward, a partial vacuum is created inside the barrel. This partial vacuum then draws air past through the carburetor’s throat and into a nozzle that sprays fuel. Then, the mixture of air and fuel in the carburetor will be delivered into cylinders for combustion.
Besides, a throat valve, which is found at the base of the carburetor, controls the amount of air pulled through partial vacuum. In the process of driving, when the driver stepping on the accelerator or gas pedal to accelerate his vehicle, the throttle opens. The wider the throttle valve opens, the more air flows into the carburetor. So more fuel flows into the engine.
A passage way called venture is located as a carburetor’s barrel which looks like an hour glass when it narrows down. When air rushes through the narrow ends of a venture, the air pressure against the sides of the passage way decrease. With this, partial vacuum is created inside the barrel. This barrel vacuum then draws the fuel through the nozzle and into the air. And the pistons create partial vacuum to draw air while the venture is responsible for drawing partial vacuum to feed fuel into the nozzle.
The part where stores the fuel that entered the carburetor is called float chamber or float bowl. At its surface, a device that floats is linked to a small valve to keep a constant amount of fuel inside the float chamber. What is more, apart from the main nozzle, there are also two other nozzles at the venture of the carburetor, say, the idle port and the off-idle port. The idle port, found just below the venture, is responsible for getting fuel into the engine when there is minimal airflow in the carburetor. This happens when the engine is at a low speed. While the off-idle port, found above the idle port, feeds additional fuel to the engine during low engine speed.

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