Workbook 3

The book is targeting students and professionals who are looking to advance their fluid power

careers. The book is colored and has the size of standard A4. The book is associated with a

separate colored workbook. The workbook contains printed power point slides, chapter

reviews and assignments. This book is the third in a series that the author plans to publish to

offer complete and comprehensive teaching references for the fluid power industry. This book

is an attempt to fill the gap between the very academic style of fluid power books and the very

commercial style of books that are produced by fluid power manufacturers basically to

promote their products.

The book presents the different types of hydraulic fluids, their physical properties, and their

standard test methods. The book also overviews the various types of contamination including,

energetic, gaseous, fluidic, and particulate contamination. This book introduces,

comprehensively, methods for hydraulic fluid analysis including the various types of standards

for evaluating cleanliness level of hydraulic fluids. This book discusses methods for controlling

contamination in hydraulic transmission lines including projectile cleaning and flushing.

The book contains a total of ten chapters distributed over 300 pages with very demonstrative

figure and tables. The contents of the book are brand non-biased and intends to introduce the

latest technologies related to the subject of the book.