The Diesel Engine

Michael Hilgers

ISBN 10: 3662709015 / ISBN 13: 9783662709016

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jul 2025, 2025

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Neuware - The aim of this work, consisting of 9 individual, self-contained booklets, is todescribe commercial vehicle technology in a concise and illustrative way. Compact and easy to understand, it provides an overview of the technology that goes into modern commercial vehicles.Content of this volume:This volume, The Diesel Engine, provides an overview of the vast topic of diesel engines. It offers basic information about the mechanical functioning of the engine. The integration of the engine into the vehicle and major systems such as the cooling system, the fuel system and the exhaust gas aftertreatment system are explained so that readers in training and in a practical setting may gain an understanding of the diesel engine. A chapter on thermodynamics rounds off the book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Diesel Engine
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jul 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3662709015
• ISBN 13: 9783662709016
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 168H x 6D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 168 millimeters height by 6 millimeters depth
• Weight: 171 grams

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Synopsis

The aim of this work, consisting of 9 individual, self-contained booklets, is to describe commercial vehicle technology in a concise and illustrative way. Compact and easy to understand, it provides an overview of the technology that goes into modern commercial vehicles.

Content of this volume: 
This volume, The Diesel Engine, provides an overview of the vast topic of diesel engines. It offers basic information about the mechanical functioning of the engine. The integration of the engine into the vehicle and major systems such as the cooling system, the fuel system and the exhaust gas aftertreatment system are explained so that readers in training and in a practical setting may gain an understanding of the diesel engine. A chapter on thermodynamics rounds off the book.

About the Author

Dr. Michael Hilgers currently is a senior manager for powertrain testing  at Daimler Truck in Stuttgart. Before that he headed a Daimler Truck testing center in China, was head of a CAE department for Mercedes-Benz Trucks and was responsible for a department in mechatronic development at Mercedes-Benz Trucks.