Diesel engines and fuel systems
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Diesel engines and fuel systems
Longman Cheshire, 1992
3rd ed
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Includes Index
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This third edition of "Diesel Engines and Fuel Systems" aims to bring the technology of the subject into the 1990s. It covers all the developments in this field over the last two decades, including the new emission laws and alternative, environmentally friendly fuels. It contains a completely new chapter on caterpillar fuel injection equipment and covers the implications of the new emission laws and how they will effect diesel engines. A new chapter on the recent developments within the diesel industries is also included.
Table of Contents
- Some important terms
- comparing the petrol and diesel engines
- the mechanical cycles
- turbochargers and blowers
- the engine indicator and theoretical heat cycles
- the combustion process
- combustion chambers
- cold starting aids
- diesel engine fuels
- engine lubrication
- engine cooling
- air cleaners
- engine brakes, compressors and exhausters
- engine faultfinding and testing
- fuel supply systems
- fuel supply pumps
- fuel filters
- injectors and injector nozzles
- jerk-type injector pumps
- governors
- distributor-type injector systems
- caterpillar diesel fuel systems
- Cummins diesel fuel systems
- Detroit diesel fuel systems
- engine emission controls
- alternative fuels.
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