Club of bologna proceedings

 
Karl RENIUS 
I have a question regarding the specific fuel 
consumption of Japanes tests. The values are 
very high compared to other tractors. Is the 
reason that you have very high speeds, and you 
measure these values at rated engine speed? 
And that you have very small engines? Are these 
two reasons responsible for these very high 
values? 
 
Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI 
The power of tractors we tested is from 15 kW to 
75 kW. The condition for the fuel test is with the 
p.t.o. drive at maximum power, so this is the 
reason for the high values of fuel consumption.
 
Arturo LARA LOPEZ 
Mexico 
My question to Mr. Takahashi is: do you have 
the same procedures, or equivalent procedures 
to those used by other testing labs in the world, 
such as those in the U.S., the U.K., Nebraska 
and the like? And can you compare your results 
with those of other machinery testing 
laboratories? 
 
Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI 
For the tractors, we have OECD tests, so we 
have discussions with other institutes regarding 
test codes and the like. But in the case of other 
machinery, for example combine harvesters etc., 
we do not exchange data.
 
Francis SEVILA
BRAIN is a famous and efficient research 
laboratory for farm machinery, and we have 
heard an interesting presentations about the 
testing activities of this institute. Could you tell 
us how you interact with the research activity in 

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your institute - or how you do not interact - and 
how this is handled by the institute. Do you have 
relations with research activity in your institute 
or not?