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When a leak has developed in the lube oil cooler of an operating diesel engine, which of the listed operating conditions can be expected to occur?

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When a leak has developed in the lube oil cooler of an operating diesel engine, which of the listed operating conditions can be expected to occur?

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• Function and location of a lube oil cooler in a diesel engine system • Direction of heat exchange and fluid flow between lube oil and coolant • What happens when a tube-type heat exchanger develops an internal leak

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• Think about which two fluids are separated by the lube oil cooler and which side is usually at higher pressure during normal operation. • If a leak occurs inside the cooler, which fluid is more likely to enter the other: oil into coolant, or coolant into oil? Why? • How would a leak that allows one fluid to flow into the other affect the observed lube oil level in the sump or tank?

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• Identify whether the engine’s lube oil cooler is typically cooled by seawater directly or by fresh water jacket cooling in most modern systems. • Decide which contamination (if any) would realistically occur inside the lube oil cooler, not somewhere else in the system. • Consider whether a leak that lets coolant into the lube oil system would make the oil level appear to rise or fall on the gauge.

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Question 1 of 205eccefa2bacbc34ba4d4794d

When a leak has developed in the lube oil cooler of an operating diesel engine, which of the listed operating conditions can be expected to occur?

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When a leak has developed in the lube oil cooler of an operating diesel engine, which of the listed operating conditions can be expected to occur?

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