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Frankly, you'd think this subject would have been exhausted by now. After all, how much "borderless education" can you absorb about such common and oft-explained engine functions as getting rid of ...

Picture a large-displacement piston engine in your mind. Perhaps the first image to come up is an engine you'd see in construction equipment, like the 20-cylinder quad-turbo 106-liter powerplant from ...

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In order to understand how delivering ever more power and mpg at the same time is possible, here's a refresher course on how a gasoline engine works. A gas engine is both fundamentally simplistic and ...

The V60N variable-displacement axial-piston pump has a newly designed load-sensing controller that contains an integrated pressure limitation function. The V60N variable-displacement axial-piston pump ...

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The capacity of a compressor is measured in Btu per hour (Btuh) or Btu per minute (Btu/min). Remember, there are 12,000 Btuh or 200 Btu/min in one ton of refrigeration. The capacity of a piston-type ...