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wet stacking

wet stacking noun: the condition or practice of passing unburned fuel out of the exhaust system of a (diesel) vehicle, for example due to idling the engine for long intervals, which does not generate enough heat for a complete burn.

Noun

wet stacking (uncountable)

  1. The condition or practice of passing unburned fuel out of the exhaust system of a (diesel) vehicle, for example due to idling the engine for long intervals, which does not generate enough heat for a complete burn.
    • Wet stacking simply means that unburned fuel is leaving the cylinder and going into the exhaust manifold and out the […] Wet stacking also forces unburned fuel past the piston rings and into the engine oil, causing fuel dilution of the lube[…]2007 June 22, Ben Evridge, Practical Boat Mechanics: Commonsense Ways to Prevent, Diagnose, and Repair Engines and Mechanical Problems, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 32
    • Figure 5 shows the effects of the wet stacking phenomenon on the D-G exhaust pipe. When the D-G sets work in the underloaded mode, piston rings do not expand sufficiently to properly seal the space between the piston and the cylinder[…]2019 December 17, Štefan Medvecký, Slavomír Hrček, Róbert Kohár, František Brumerčík, Viera Konstantová, Current Methods of Construction Design: Proceedings of the ICMD 2018, Springer Nature, →ISBN...

Questions about wet stacking

What does wet stacking mean?
Wet stacking means the condition or practice of passing unburned fuel out of the exhaust system of a (diesel) vehicle, for example due to idling the engine for long intervals, which does not generate enough heat for a complete burn.
What part of speech is wet stacking?
Wet stacking is a noun.

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