When heat exchangers were first introduced as an industrial solution for cooling electrical enclosures and control panels, their most notable benefit was their ability to prevent electrical overheating by simply redirecting heat. As long as a system’s maximum operating temperature was lower than the ambient temperature outside of the enclosure, transferring waste heat away from sensitive components was enough to keep the system functioning at optimum capacity. However, applications where the ambient temperature is too high or the level of waste heat emitted is too overwhelming for ambient cooling need a more powerful solution. With below-ambient heat exchangers, such applications can still benefit from the more affordable, efficient, and reliable thermal management processes that heat exchangers provide. (more…)
The Benefits of Heat Exchangers for Agriculture
The more productive a company can be, the more profitable it can be and the faster it can grow its operations. In agriculture, higher productivity also benefits consumers across the country by ensuring that grocery stores and kitchens are stocked with healthy, fresh foods and beverages. For that reason, the agriculture industry has taken great steps to make use of the latest technology to boost productivity, ensure a consistently high level of quality, and ensure that consumers across the country can rely on the industry to provide what they need at affordable prices. (more…)
How Heat Exchangers Help Bring Advanced Technology to Medicine
While the medical field isn’t always the first to widely adopt new technology, there’s been a surge of technological innovation lately spurred by a need to improve patient care and dramatically reduce health care costs. Like most other technologies, advanced thermal management solutions (often in the form of heat exchangers) are vital for advanced medical devices to work properly. Those solutions not only have to work consistently and efficiently, but also remain safe enough for equipment that is often used in very close proximity to patients. (more…)
High Heat Transfer for Higher Quality Molds
In all industries, thermal management is important for ensuring that vital equipment and technology operates properly. The right thermal management solution can consistently prevent electrical overheating so operations can continue uninterrupted. In some industries, though, thermal management is more directly essential to operations, such as the molding industry. Besides the waste heat that equipment emits, molding also requires the rapid removal of heat to ensure that molds cool quickly and uniformly. Much like other thermal management concerns, heat exchanger technology can also offer optimal solutions for this heat removal, particularly in the form of innovative thermal pins. (more…)
How to Properly Cool a NEMA-Certified Enclosure
The science of cooling advanced technology and electrical enclosures isn’t the only thing that’s changed over the years. So have the standards set by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) for keeping the enclosures themselves safe, protected, and properly cooled. As industries have spread into increasingly more volatile areas of the world, maintaining NEMA safety and operation standards has become more and more important. That means companies have relied more and more on innovative, NEMA-class heat exchangers to cool the equipment and technology that helps them expand their operations. (more…)
Heat Exchangers’ Impact on the Consumer Experience
If you list out the benefits that consumer product manufacturers have enjoyed thanks to advanced heat exchangers, a more streamlined manufacturing process would top the first few slots. However, an equally important (though sometimes, less obvious) impact of heat exchanger technology is the myriad of benefits that consumers have enjoyed. Particularly, in the quality of the products that drive their everyday lives and their overall experience with the companies they deal with. Those streamlined manufacturing processes not only ensure that consumers receive their products quickly, but that those goods are of a consistently high quality every time. (more…)
Other Ways Heat Exchangers Optimize Productivity
After manufacturers began using heat exchangers to cool their equipment and technology, it quickly became obvious how much innovative thermal management boosted productivity. The main way heat exchangers did this was by eliminating the need for air conditioners, which required large amounts of energy and constant human intervention due to breakdowns and malfunctions. However, cooling machinery and electrical control panels with more efficiency isn’t the only way in which heat exchangers optimize productivity. They’ve also helped companies and makers of modern technology rethink the way they approach thermal management as a whole. (more…)
Benefits of Heat Exchangers for Electrical Thermal Management
Thermal management is the type of thing that every piece of technology needs, and therefore, any company that relies on it also needs. This is why air conditioners were tolerated for so long; they were the only solution to providing the reliable, effective thermal management that large equipment, especially in manufacturing, required. Otherwise, the equipment would overheat, become damaged, and need to be replaced. Now, however, more companies in every type of industry benefit from switching to heat exchangers rather than air conditioners for their electrical thermal management needs. Besides being more cost-effective, they also offer a variety of other benefits that can ripple through the rest of a company’s operations. (more…)
The Importance of Thermal Management in Wastewater Treatment
As businesses in every industry become increasingly more environmentally conscious, wastewater treatment has become an important process for industries that didn’t always have to worry about it. Everything from the manufacture of paper and other goods to the cultivation of agriculture produces waste that must be filtered out of water that is released into the environment or used for other purposes. Fortunately, implementing and maintaining those processes is much simpler, efficient, and eco-friendly than ever thanks to the innovation of modern heat exchangers. The high levels of thermal management needed to safely and effectively treat wastewater are often best handled with innovative heat exchanger technology. (more…)
Thermal Management with Cold Plate Heat Exchangers
The greatest advantage of today’s advanced heat exchangers is that they can be designed to address virtually every type of thermal management need for nearly any type of application. For example, cold plates are a specific type of heat exchanger that are frequently utilized for high-performance applications that require efficient heat transfer across varying spaces. The fluid inside of a cold plate heat exchanger flows through pathways that are custom-machined into them, which allows for maximum heat transfer capabilities within limited spaces. (more…)