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What are Choke Pulldown Units?
A choke pulldown unit contains a valve that modifies the air pressure in the intake manifold of an internal combustion engine, and so modifies the ratio of fuel and air quantity entering the engine. Choke valves within the Choke Pulldown Unit are generally used in engines with carburetors, to supply a richer fuel mixture during engine start than at other times. Most choke valves in engines are actually butterfly valves that are mounted in the manifold above the carburetor jet, to produce a higher partial vacuum and thereby draw more fuel into the intake stream.
In heavy industrial or fluid engineering contexts, a choke pulldown unit is a particular design that lifts up and down a solid cylinder (called a "plug" or "stem") which is placed around or inside another cylinder that has holes or slots. The design of a choke pulldown unit means fluids flowing through the cage are coming from all sides and that the streams of flow (through the holes or slots) collide with each other at the centre of the cage cylinder, thereby dissipating the energy of the fluid through "flow impingement". The main advantage of choke valves is that they can be designed to be totally linear in their flow rate.
Choke valves in the Choke Pulldown Unit (both senses) draw their names from choked flow: over a wide range of valve settings the flow through the valve can be understood by ignoring the viscosity of the fluid passing through the valve; the rate of flow is determined only by the ambient pressure on the upstream side of the valve.
Industrial
Heavy duty industrial choke pulldown units control the flow to a certain Flow Coefficient (Cv) determined by how far the valve is opened. They are regularly used in the oil industry and for highly erosive and corrosive purposes; they are often made of tungsten carbide.
Automotive
A choke pulldown unit is sometimes installed in the carburetor of internal combustion engines. Its purpose is to restrict the flow of air, thereby enriching the fuel-air mixture while starting the engine. Depending on engine design and application, the valve can be activated manually by the operator of the engine (via a lever or pull handle) or automatically by a temperature-sensitive mechanism called an autochoke.
Choke Pulldown Unit is important for carburetted gasoline engines because small droplets of gasoline do not evaporate well within a cold engine. By restricting the flow of air into the throat of the carburettors, the choke pulldown units raises the level of vacuum inside the throat, which causes a proportionally greater amount of fuel to be sucked out of the main jet and into the combustion chamber during cold-running operation. Once the engine is warm (from combustion), opening the choke valve in the choke pulldown unit restores the carburettor to normal operation, supplying fuel and air in the correct metric ratio for clean, efficient combustion.
Note that the term "choke" is applied to the carburettor's enrichment device even when it works by a totally different method. Commonly SU carburettors have "chokes" that work by lowering the fuel jet to a narrower part of the needle. Some others work by introducing an additional fuel route to the constant depression chamber.
Chokes were nearly universal in automobiles until fuel injection replaced carburetion in the late 1980s. Choke valves are still extremely common in other internal-combustion applications, including most small portable engines, motorcycles, small prop-powered airplanes, and carbureted marine engines.
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