For the companies that have implemented them, modern heat exchangers have become an essential component of their operations. The custom, eco-friendly, and highly efficient thermal management solutions have proven to keep control panels and other enclosures of all sizes properly cooled without requiring nearly as much energy or maintenance as more conventional solutions. This has helped companies not only reduce overall operating costs, but also free up employee time and improve and the productivity of their equipment. However, heat exchanger technology has also been a benefit to several processes beyond enclosure cooling, including molding, food and beverage processing, wastewater treatment, and much more. (more…)
Innovating Thermal Management with Custom Heat Exchangers
In many ways, the advancement of electrical thermal management hasn’t followed the same pattern as other technological advancements. For example, while applications like computer processing and automated equipment have grown increasingly more complex, the concepts used to innovative thermal management have become simpler. Compared to traditional HVAC and other solutions, which generate chilled air to circulate throughout the interior of an electrical enclosure, modern custom thermal solutions such as heat exchangers use simpler heat transfer methods to protect sensitive components. These methods are simpler in the fact that they transfer heat rather than overcome it, which means they can achieve higher levels of thermal management with much less effort. (more…)
More Customized Liquid Cooling with Cold Plates
When heat exchangers first gained popularity as efficient electrical thermal management solutions, the most common types were ambient cooling units that utilized air-to-air heat transfer methods to eliminate waste heat. The process is one that costs significantly less in both money and energy when compared to previous solutions that used more conventional HVAC methods. Today, air-to-air heat exchangers are still popular, but for many applications, the advanced liquid cooling capabilities of custom cold plates are often a more ideal solution. By creating flow paths within custom cold plates and circulating eco-friendly cooling fluid (such as water) through them, such solutions bring the high-performance thermal management of liquid cooling to a much broader range of applications. (more…)
Transferring Heat for High-Performance Control Panels
Cooling control panels (as well as various other electrical enclosures) is a vital function for most industries these days. It grows even more essential as companies continue introducing more powerful and fully integrated systems, including automated equipment and processes. Because of its importance, the efficiency with which a company’s electrical thermal management systems can remove excess heat from such enclosures largely determines that company’s level of productivity and success. For many such applications, modern custom thermal solutions, such as heat exchangers, often provide optimal results, providing high-level heat transfer capabilities to virtually any type of application in wide range of industries. (more…)
Customizing Thermal Solutions for Virtually Any Application
The various technologies that industries rely on these days come in all sizes and are implemented for nearly all types of applications. In many cases, technological solutions are customized to meet the unique needs of certain advanced applications, or those that are designed for highly specific processes. To meet the specific thermal management needs of such innovative applications, companies often rely on custom thermal solutions, such as heat exchangers, which often provide optimal, high-performance electrical cooling at minimal costs. Using comprehensive design and analysis capabilities, eco-friendly heat transfer concepts, and innovative manufacturing techniques, modern custom thermal solutions can be just as beneficial for applications of all types. (more…)
Cooling Molds Faster with Thermal Pins
The advantages that custom thermal solutions such as heat exchanger technology have brought to most industries have are well-known. From providing more eco-friendly solutions to cooling enclosures to helping companies lower overall energy and maintenance costs, heat exchangers have given companies a significant advantage in the realm of electrical thermal management. As more companies have employed the thermal solutions for an increasingly wider variety of applications, those benefits have multiplied. In some applications, the same heat transfer concepts that heat exchangers utilize can be customized to fit highly specific applications. For example, thermal pins utilize the significant advantages of heat exchanger technology to vastly improve quality and cycle times within the injection molding process. (more…)
Cost-Savings Associated with Eco-Friendly Heat Transfer
As technology continues to grow more powerful and advanced, and companies continue taking advantage of that innovation, the costs associated with implementing new tech has become a significant factor in most companies’ overhead. Sometimes, dedicating a large amount of capital to newer and more efficient solutions is worth the investment. However, if it’s too costly to operate on a continuous basis, then the investment can become more of a burden. In many cases, those costs are directly related to a technology’s thermal management system. Because of this, the many cost-saving benefits of heat exchangers and other custom thermal solutions have become increasingly more impactful. (more…)
Transferring Heat with Advanced Heat Pipe Assemblies
Among the many applications for which passive cooling is the optimal thermal management solution, pipe-based heat exchangers are often the preferable option for several different reasons. In addition to their ability to efficiently transfer large amounts of waste heat, heat pipes can also be custom-designed to fit virtually any application’s unique needs. From high-quality performance to the minimizing of space and energy requirements, the versatility of heat pipes have made them ideal for an increasingly wider variety of applications across multiple high-demand industries. (more…)
The Difference Between Cooling and Transferring Heat
Electrical cooling comes in many forms these days, from air conditioning and air compressing units to more high-performance liquid cooling, and more. However, for many modern applications, the better solution isn’t a cooling one, but one that involves consistently transferring waste heat before it even has a chance to accumulate within an electrical enclosure. For a wide variety of applications in virtually every industry, the innovative heat transfer concepts that heat exchangers utilize provide a more reliable, efficient, and eco-friendly thermal management process than traditional cooling solutions. (more…)
How Air-to-Air Cooling Compares to Air Conditioners
Before it became typical to implement heat exchangers for most electrical thermal management needs, the idea of ambient cooling didn’t seem very viable. Electrical components must be housed within enclosures, and without air conditioning units to keep those enclosures cool, they would quickly overheat and malfunction, before breaking down completely. However, heat exchangers proved that the use of air-to-air cooling technology was not only a viable solution, but also a better one in many aspects when compared to more traditional air conditioning units. Since then, air-to-air heat exchangers have become an increasingly more vital part of modern electrical cooling solutions. (more…)