Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) coolers have been used extensively for many years on diesel truck engines, and are now also being used on gasoline engines. EGR coolers are specialized heat-exchanger assemblies that make extensive use of furnace-brazing (usually vacuum brazing) to create strong, leak-tight brazements that are capable of handling the very high temperatures involved in engine operations. EGR coolers used in diesel-engine applications help to reduce the formation of various nitrogen-oxides, such as N-O (nitrogen monoxide) or N2O (nitrogen dioxide), since such emissions are considered atmosphere pollutants, and are formed within a narrow temperature band in the combustion cycle. By recirculating some of the engine’s exhaust gases back to the engine through the EGR cooler, this cooled recirculated-gas gets mixed in with the incoming air entering the engine-cylinders and helps to reduce the combustion temperatures just enough so that less of these pollutants are formed.