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Originally Posted by Evil Aviator
See, this is exactly what RICE RACING is complaining about. The idiots have now confused you by using incorrect, made-up terminology.
When one compressor feeds into another it is called " staging". The setup is usually described in numbers of stages. For example, one compressor feeding into another is called "2-stage", 7 inline compressors are called "7-stage", and so on. Therefore, if you had an engine with one compressor feeding into another, you would describe your setup as a "2-stage turbocharged engine" and you would describe the method as "2-stage turbocharging", or more generically as "staged turbocharging" or simply "staging".
Garrett on staging:
http://www.turbobygarrett.com/turbob...esel_tech.html
Borg Warner's regulated 2-stage turbo system:
http://www.turbos.bwauto.com/products/r2s.aspx
http://www.turbos.bwauto.com/tools/d...nt&r=106&d=107
Garrett TPE331 engine shows the design differences between the high and low compressor stages (painted blue in the cut-away picture). The resulting compression ratio was 8:1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_AiResearch_TPE-331
Where is The Lounge? I haven't seen it in about a year now, so I figured it was deleted.  |
To be fair however, even academia refers to the above as compound turbocharging of a system (at least in Marine Engineering--but then again, I take what that professor says with a heavy dose of salt for just about everything that comes out of his mouth).
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