What is the difference between a mechanical Supercharger and a Turbo Supercharger?
What is the difference between a mechanical Supercharger and a Turbo Supercharger?
Supercharging uses the power of the engine itself to drive the compressor to supercharger. Not only does the supercharger consume the power of the engine, but its speed will change with the change of the engine speed. But mechanical pressurization will not occur pressurization lag. Although it works extremely well at low engine speeds, it doesn’t supercharge well at high speeds. The Supercharger uses engine power directly to drive the compressor, high-density air is then fed into the cylinders to boost the engine’s output power.
Turbocharging is to use the exhaust gas produced by the engine to push the turbine in the exhaust pipe to run, and then drive the compressor in the intake pipe to supercharge indirectly. It uses no power from the engine, and the added pressure is several times higher than the Supercharger. But because the turbine has inertia, the intermediate bearing also has the considerable resistance, the exhaust gas suddenly increases when the turbine speed will not immediately increase, therefore will have the turbine hysteresis phenomenon, in the low speed operation does not have the pressurization effect.
The earliest superchargers were all superchargers, known as supercharges when they were first invented. After the invention of turbochargers, Turbo Superchargers were called for their turbocharger and Mechanical superchargers for their superchargers. Later, they were reduced to Turbocharger and Supercharger, respectively.
