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Unique Fuel & Lube Filtration Solutions
Global Capabilities - Design & Logistics

OVERVIEW Donaldson has accumulated numerous engineering, design and testing tools

that are used during the design process.

Engineering Capabilities Test & Evaluation Tools
• Design centers in three key regions
– United States, Asia and Europe Structural Analysis
• Per SAE, ISO, and NFPA standards
Prediction and Simulation • Burst
• CAD • Collapse
• Media modeling • Pressure impulse and fatigue
• Fluid mechanics
• Structural analysis Tensile Compression
• Thermal analysis • Used to test material, component
and assembly properties

Environmental Chambers
• Allows testing at hot or cold
temperature, with humidity control

Flow Test Benches
• Allows measurement of static and
dynamic flow and restriction for a
device
• Allows calculation of device Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
restriction at varying flows and • Optical microscopy
temperatures • Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Development and Validation • System simulation • Chemical analysis
• Fourier transform infrared (FTIR)
Filter Durability • Gas chromatography (GC/MS)
• Filtration performance testing per
applicable SAE and ISO standards • Thermal analysis (DSC, TGA)
• Fabrication integrity • Liquid chromatography
• Environmental conditions
Salt spray and thermal cycling
• Pressure fatigue
• Flow fatigue
• Hydrostatic burst
• Flow benches
• Vibration benches
• Gravimetric analysis Filtration Performance Testing
• ISO, SAE, NFPA
Rapid Prototyping • Customer standards
• SLA, SLS • Contaminant (particle or water)
removal efficiency
• Investment casting
• Contaminant capacity
• RTV molding

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