With a cooling performance at 20oC ΔT: 980 Watts and ingress protection equal to NEMA 12, 4, and 4x standards, Noren’s newest line of Eco-Cool heat exchangers offers an impressively reliable solution to more efficient thermal management. The advanced units are also a culmination of decades of experience and innovation in the field of greener thermal management technology. The secret to the Eco-Cool heat exchanger’s evolution isn’t just its specifications, but the expertise and innovative heat transfer solutions that come together to make it work. (more…)
How Heat Exchangers Affect Everyday Life
For company leaders, managers, and employees who work closely with equipment that requires thermal management, heat exchangers have become fairly well-known. However, heat exchanger technology has made a significant impact that far extends the industrial world, and has transformed many aspects of daily life that aren’t always immediately apparent. From the quality of the environment in manufacturing communities to the personal devices we rely on and the foods we consume, most people enjoy the benefits of heat exchanger technology without even realizing it. (more…)
What Does Green Thermal Management Look Like?
Every year, companies spend an exorbitant amount of capital on efforts to streamline productivity and reduce extraneous costs. Over the last decade, those efforts have increasingly included measures to institute greener, more eco-friendly technologies and procedures to lower their environmental footprints. Depending on the industry, those efforts can take many different forms, from implementing energy saving lighting and a policy of carpooling for employees. In most industries, however, the energy used to cool electrical control panels, prevent equipment from overheating, and control heat to facilitate manufacturing processes is one of most impactful areas to start thinking green. (more…)
What to Do with Electrical Waste Heat
The answer to how to handle the waste heat that electrical systems give off used to be to eliminate it. With enough air conditioning power, any amount of heat can be eradicated. For advanced manufacturing equipment and technology, however, air conditioning isn’t usually a viable option. Not only is it cumbersome and expensive, but blasting cold air to eliminate hot air within an enclosure can produce condensation that damages the equipment your trying to protect. Heat exchangers offer a better answer by collecting waste heat and transferring it away from sensitive equipment. However, it’s what you can do with that energy once it’s collected that make heat exchangers even more beneficial. (more…)
Designing Technology with Optimal Thermal Management in Mind
Despite the fact that effective waste heat management is vital to any technology, systems are often designed without proper consideration given to the application’s thermal management needs. Implementing a cooling solution is often left as an afterthought, and as a result, the application’s efficiency and reliability can suffer. The most effective way to ensure that any new system will operate at full capacity for as long as intended is to make sure that efficient thermal management is part of its design. For existing applications, customizable solutions such as heat exchangers can still offer optimal thermal management, thanks to their unique versatility. (more…)
Using Heat Exchangers for Powder and Bulk Solid Foods
In the food and beverage industry, heat exchangers serve a variety of purposes, and their efficiency relies largely on their ability to keep electrical components safe from contaminants. When dealing with powder and bulk solid foods, this safety net has several implications, from maintaining the integrity of electrical and heat exchanger equipment to ensuring the safety of the foods being processed. Unlike other substances, powder and bulk foods pose several unique challenges, which heat exchangers are uniquely qualified to meet. (more…)
Common Applications for Below-Ambient Heat Exchangers
Ambient heat exchangers are like a constant breath of fresh air for modern electrical enclosures. Using natural/forced convection instead of air conditioning methods is as close as electrical components can get to operating in the fresh, open air instead of within an enclosure. Yet, many applications require cooling solutions that go below the ambient temperature outside of the enclosures. Others perform at such high capacities that they need below-ambient cooling to effectively prevent overheating. Today, we briefly examine a few of the common applications for below-ambient heat exchangers, and how they help streamline more demanding thermal management processes. (more…)
The Art of Cooling Electrical Enclosures
Electrical enclosures are a fact of life for any technological equipment. To manage them more easily, engineers and designers have found ways to make such enclosures increasingly smaller. However, this also poses several thermal management challenges, such as how to provide adequate cooling for more powerful equipment in smaller and tighter spaces. The need for efficient solutions to these challenges is what drove the adoption of modern heat exchangers. The art of constantly innovating thermal management technology is what keeps heat exchangers an important part of many advanced technologies. (more…)
As Automated Technology Rises, So Does the Use of Heat Exchangers
When automated technology first became a reality, many industries feared that it would end up costing more than they could afford, or end up replacing large numbers of employees. It turns out, when implemented properly, automated technology is actually an enormous benefit to production and innovation in most companies, helping them grow their businesses at rates they previously thought impossible. Those benefits come from the ability to focus more time, energy, and resources on more productive tasks, and heat exchangers have allowed the technology to blossom by applying the same benefits to thermal management. (more…)
Making Heat Exchangers Right the First Time
At Noren Thermal, our dedication to providing high-performance thermal management solutions goes beyond the high quality of products we provide. We’ve also invested significantly in providing accelerated and more precise design and manufacturing processes. In addition to wide-ranging expertise in thermal management, design, and engineering, we utilize advanced, in-house production technology, including 3D printing for rapid prototyping. Our goal is to make sure our clients receive the advanced solutions they need without losing time on hiccups during the design or production process. (more…)