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"Hydraulic systems for mobile equipment is intended to educate students in off-road equipment and heavy truck programs. It teaches and is correlated to the competencies of both AED Hydraulics/Hydrostatics Standards and the Hydraulics portion of the ASE Education Foundation Medium/Heavy Duty Trucks Task List."--
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Fundamentals of Medium/Heavy Duty Diesel Engines describes safe and effective diagnostic, repair, and maintenance procedures for today's medium and heavy vehicle diesel engines, including the most current, relevant, and practical coverage of: * HD-OBD emission diagnostics * Common rail injection systems * Exhaust after treatment systems, including diesel particulate filters, selective catalyst reduction (SCR), and lean NOx traps (LNT) * Variable geometry...
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""In Prime Movers, Smil's passion for the Cinderellas of civilization focuses on the diesel engines and gas turbines that power ocean vessels and wide-body jets. These engines have made ocean shipping and intercontinental air travel so cheap that they have changed the face of our planet. Marshall McLuhan's dreams of a Global Village have become true in unimagined ways. Being an engineer myself, I admire the way Smil portrays the human Cinderellas...