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CLS™ Development Series: Transportation

Facilitated 6 week online transportation program

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$695.00 STLE Members Only!
$850.00 per non-STLE member

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This series of programs is designed by certified learning and lubrication specialists to improve your professional standing.

A subscription purchase is NOT required!

Prerequisite: Participants must have access to The Lubrication Engineers Manual, 2nd Edition

Stop sweating the CLS exam!
Lubrizol K²M in cooperation with the STLE has developed a series of seven online programs to help you.

The Transportation Lubrication Program is a 6 week program designed to reinforce your knowledge of the fundamentals of how engines work. This program speaks to small engines and explains the API system and the two current categories CI-4 and CJ-4. It covers the specifics of passenger car motor oil applications and the specific attributes of diesel engine oils in particular applications.

Curriculum & Topics

Operation of a Gasoline Engine

How the basic components of an engine work
Engine lubrication fundamentals

Operation of a Diesel Engine

Combustion cycle in a four-stroke compression-ignited engine
Main components of a compression-ignited engine
Differences between compression-ignited and spark-ignited engines
Lubrication demands of a compression-ignited engine

ATVs: Two Stroke vs Four Stroke

Trends in the ATV market and ATV engine design
The differences between two- and four-stroke engines
The stresses new ATV designs place on the lubrican

American Petroleum Institute (API)

The American Petroleum Institute and its role in the engine oils industry
The need for API performance standards, where they came from, and why they change
API performance standards and service categories, and the symbols used to represent them

ILSAC GF-4 Specifications

Differences between ILSAC GF-3 and ILSAC GF-4 oils
Performance benefits of using a ILSAC GF-4 oil
Trends that prompted the development of the ILSAC GF-4 specification

Synthetic Oil for passenger cars

Impact of the base stock on lubricant performance
Difference between synthetic and conventional oils
Performance advantages of using a synthetic oil
Multipurpose Vehicle Oils

Attributes of a Diesel Engine TBN

The difference between high ash and low ash oil
TBN and the impact it has on the performance of diesel oil
The benefits of oil analysis

Off Highway Diesel Engines

Off-road diesel engines
Patterns of distress associated with off-road diesel engines
The benefits of oil analysis

API CJ-4

Impact of EPA 2007 legislations for on-road, heavy duty diesel vehicle designs
Impact of changing vehicle designs on oil formulations
The benefits of API CJ-4 lubricants.

EGR Engines

New diesel engine designs and their oil needs
The patterns of distress associated with new engine designs
How new oil formulations are tested

Lubrizol is a STLE™ Education Partner.
*The CLS™ Development Series does not replace the CLS™ exam or guarantee you will pass the exam – that will depend on your lubrication experience and expertise. Participants are expected to have access to or purchase critical reference texts to participate in this series. STLE and CLS are registered trademarks of The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers.