Despite the fact that thermal management is a vital component in any technology, it’s importance is often misunderstood or completely ignored by engineers who don’t specialize in it. Because of the gap between electronic engineering and thermal management expertise, many myths abound about the role thermal management should play in the design of advanced technology. Today, we take a look at how modern heat exchangers have helped dispel many of those myths, and what that means for today’s advanced thermal management systems. (more…)
How Heat Exchangers Changed Consumer Technology
Manufacturing equipment was a breaking ground for heat exchangers and their advanced thermal management concepts. By largely eliminating the need for clunky air conditioning equipment, heat exchangers allowed companies throughout the manufacturing industry to cool vital electrical systems more efficiently. On a grander scale, however, heat exchanger technology has also played a tangible role in the everyday lives of consumers, propelling the advancement of powerful consumer technology such as laptops, cellphones, gaming consoles, and much more. (more…)
What Thermal Management Means In Different Industries
Thermal management has been Noren’s specialty for over four decades. For companies that rely on the most efficient and effective technology, the solutions that Noren produces exceed expectations in more than just cooling electrical control panels. Today, effectively controlling, transferring, and utilizing heat is vital to a wide range of processes, and heat exchangers can be designed specifically to make these processes more efficient and eco-friendly. (more…)
Do Heat Exchangers Make Food Manufacturing Safer?
Heat exchangers are well-known for making thermal management simpler for manufacturing equipment and a variety of other processes. They also make maintaining such equipment safer for employees by utilizing simpler equipment and requiring less maintenance than conventional air conditioning. For industries such as food and beverage manufacturing, which rely on effective thermal management for a wide variety of situations, heat exchangers can also give companies the ability to make most processes safer. From providing eco-friendly heating and cooling solutions to reducing the risks of contamination, heat exchangers are becoming an increasingly vital part of modern food and beverage production. (more…)
The Best Way to Cool a NEMA-Certified Enclosure
In general, maintaining the integrity of the air inside of an electrical enclosure is vital to preventing contamination and the hazards it can cause. For many applications, however, it’s more than good sense—it’s a requirement under safety regulations provided by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA). To meet those regulations, electrical enclosures that operate in areas where the risks of contamination or other environmental hazards are high often rely on Noren’s line of specially certified heat exchangers. Combining decades of experience in thermal management with advanced design and manufacturing capabilities, Noren’s NEMA-class thermal management solutions can offer the most effective way to cool enclosures in hazardous areas. (more…)
3D Printing for More Advanced Thermal Management Solutions
At Noren Thermal, innovation has been a driving principle for over 40 years, from helping to make heat exchangers a vital part of modern technology to innovating new ways to improve thermal management and ecofriendly operations. We’ve stayed on the cutting edge of technology to deliver the most efficient and reliable solutions to all of our clients, and today, that includes using the latest technology to streamline the design and manufacturing processes. While 3D printing is still in its relatively early stages, we’ve already harnessed the technology to create rapid prototypes that help vastly improve turnaround and eliminate design errors before final manufacturing. (more…)
Why Heat Exchangers Don’t Require As Much Maintenance
Heat exchangers provide a wide variety of benefit, especially for industries that rely on efficient thermal management for large-scale automated equipment and high-performance technology. One of the most significant benefits is the ability to consistently cool electrical equipment while minimizing the amount of energy companies consume, which helps them lower their environmental footprint as well as save money. Another significant benefit, however, is the significantly reduced amount of time and resources that companies must spend maintaining heat exchanger technology, especially when compared to more traditional air conditioning and air compressing equipment. (more…)
Why Heat Exchangers Are Popular Cabinet Coolers
Modern heat exchangers can serve several different thermal management purposes. In some industries, they can help with manufacturing and pasteurizing processes. In others, they help companies streamline operations by redirecting electrical waste heat to be used for other purposes. One of their first and most common applications, however, is to make sure that companies can efficiently cool electrical cabinets and control panels without having to rely on more costly air conditioning equipment. (more…)
Cold Plate Heat Exchangers from Noren Thermal
In the world of heat exchanger technology, optimal performance relies on expert custom design. Sometimes, that means modifying certain aspects of common heat exchangers to fit the specifications of a unique design, or custom-designing thermal management solutions to ensure that unique applications’ needs are met. For instance, Noren Thermal has helped clients find optimal thermal management solutions by custom-machining cold plate solutions to provide more effective and efficient thermal management results than they thought possible. (more…)
How to Automate Industrial Thermal Management
In today’s world of continuously more innovative technology, automation has become an important part of everything from improved production to advanced connectivity, communication, machine learning, and more. Heat exchangers have played an important role in making the adoption of automated technology possible by providing an equally hassle-free solution to electrical thermal management. As leaders in thermal management design and manufacturing, Noren Thermal has proudly provided clients in a variety of industries with the heat exchanger technology that has helped propel widespread automation. (more…)