Engine Test Cell Facilities - Drum Stores

Fuel Storage Systems LTD offer a wide variety of services becoming a one stop shop for our engine test bed customers managing the whole process from start to finish. 

 Fuel Reference has a wide range of applications on the testbed. These range from regulation conformity calibrations to plausibility checks of fuel consumption measurements. It can also be used in test field-wide comparability checks of fuel consumption measurement results. 

 Stricter laws and regulations with regard to CO2  and fuel consumption reductions increase the pressure to develop engines even faster, coupled with rapidly increasing measurement expenditures. Engineers developing diesel and gasoline engines are increasingly forced to implement measurements in automatic operation with ever shorter measurement times or in transient modes. 

In addition to accelerated test procedures, new combustion and injection technologies require instrumentation devices delivering precise measurements even for efficient engines with low consumption levels during cyclic tests under partial load. And this is all the more true if fuel is a target variable in automated optimization and calibration procedures. The call for higher testbed efficiency does not only mean an easy installation and quick commissioning procedure for the measurement system; it also means a reliable fuel supply for the engine with preselected parameters, such as fuel temperature and pressure. 

Precision fuel temperature control is required to achieve high- measurement accuracy in the overall system on the engine testbed, even in case of low fuel consumption values. The layout of the fuel consumption measurement system, for example having fuel lines which adapt to different mixture preparation systems, has a decisive influence on the quality of the measurement results. Engines for alternative fuels also require the compatibility with bio diesel or alcohol admixtures of up to 100 %. 

Our installation and maintenance teams have unrivalled experience, expertise and training within engine test cell sector with all our installations complying with the Oil Storage Regulations for Business 2015.