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This SAE Standard was developed primarily for passenger car and truck application, but may be used in marine, industrial, and similar applications.

This SAE Recommended Practice is applicable to all heat exchangers used in vehicle and industrial cooling systems. This document outlines the tests to determine the heat transfer performance under specified conditions.

The purpose of this SAE Recommended Practice is to encourage the standardization of mounting patterns for engine cooling fans as new engines are designed and developed in SI metric units. It is specifically not the objective of the specification to address the soft metric conversion of existing mounting patterns on engines designed in English units. The scope of the specification is limited to heavy-duty diesel engine manufacturers, fan suppliers, and end users. Standard mounting patterns are given for fans up to 2000 mm rotating diameter. Passenger car and light-duty fans were not addressed because committee members issuing the specification felt that standards for these fans could be better addressed by personnel working in the market segments which use those fans. See Figure 1 and Table 1. Rationale for issuance of the specification is cost savings through reduction of part numbers and inventory.

This SAE Recommended Practice is intended to outline basic nomenclature and terminology in common use for engine charge air coolers, related charge air cooling system components, and charge air operating and performance parameters. An engine charge air cooler is a heat exchanger used to cool the charge air of an internal combustion engine after it has been compressed by an exhaust gas driven turbocharger, an engine driven turbocharger, or a mechanically or electrically driven blower. The use of a charge air cooler allows increased engine horsepower output, and may reduce emission levels and improve fuel economy through a more complete combustion due to the increased air density available. Typical cooling media includes the engine's coolant, ambient air, or an external water or coolant source.

This recommended practice is applicable to all liquid-to-gas, liquid-to-liquid, gas-to-gas, and gas-to-liquid heat exchangers used in vehicle and industrial cooling systems. This document outlines the tests to determine durability characteristics of the heat exchanger under pressure cycling.

The scope of the specification is limited to heavy-duty diesel engine manufacturers, fan suppliers, and end users. Standard mounting patterns are given for fans up to 2000 mm rotating diameter. Passenger car and light-duty fans were not addressed because committee members issuing the specification felt that standards for these fans could be better addressed by personnel working in the market segments which use those fans. Rationale for issuance of the specification is cost savings through reduction of part numbers and inventory. Failure to comply with this specification will result in the need to release and carry in inventory parts of identical blade geometry and construction, but with different mounting patterns.