Radiator (engine cooling)
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Radiators are heat exchangers used for cooling internal combustion engines, mainly in automobiles but also in piston-engined aircraft, railway locomotives, motorcycles, stationary generating plants or
A typical engine coolant radiator used in an automobile
Coolant being poured into the radiator of an automobile
Honeycomb radiator tubes
Thermosyphon cooling system of 1937, without circulating pump
Heater core
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A heater core is a heat exchanger mounted in the cabin of a vehicle designed to provide heat that uses the same operating principles and working fluid as an automotive radiator. Hot coolant from the v
Radiator (engine cooling)
…usually incorporated to simultaneously operate a small radiator inside the vehicle. This small radiator, and the associated blower fan, is called the heater core, and serves to warm the cabin interior. Like the radiator, the heater core acts by removing heat from the engine. For this reason, automotive technicians…
Heater core (arrowed) in the partially disassembled dashboard of a BMW E32
Replacing a heater core in a Volkswagen Passat
Heat exchanger, for cabin heating, in the exhaust flow of a Briggs & Stratton Vanguard in SD-1 Spacek
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