What Makes Heat Exchangers Different?

The concepts that guide modern electrical thermal management have evolved significantly over the years, and they’ve led to a variety of expanding possibilities for newer and more efficient technologies. One of the most popular and often relied-on concepts is that of phase-change cooling, which powers many of today’s most advanced heat exchangers. The simple, effective, and eco-friendly method of transferring waste heat makes heat exchangers viable for a wide range of applications. (more…)

Should You Retrofit Old Tech with Heat Exchangers?

Heat exchangers have become popular enough that many forms of new technology incorporate them into their initial designs. Others are easy to upgrade with appropriate heat exchangers to boost their efficiency and productivity. However, sometimes, technology itself doesn’t need to be replaced, just its thermal management system. For such cases, it may be a good idea to retrofit the application with an appropriate, custom thermal management solution. Today, heat exchangers come in enough of a variety to meet the specific needs and demands of most applications. For those with older, specialized requirements, heat exchangers can often be customized for optimal results. (more…)

Technologies that Rely on Heat Exchangers

The many different uses that technology companies and designers find for heat exchangers these days comprise an impressive list. It belies the technology’s humble beginnings as an alternative to air conditioners for cooling electrical cabinets. Today, heat exchanger technology comes in so many different forms and functions that it’s become integral to much more than just cooling control panels. In fact, some of the most advanced technologies have been made possible because of the innovative thermal management processes provided by today’s heat exchangers. (more…)

How to Make Electrical Cooling Eco-Friendly

These days, technology has to do more than just work. Eco-friendliness and energy conservation are top priorities in all industries and are just as important as productivity and efficiency. Therefore, technology has to be designed to meet those needs in order to be useful for the companies that implement it. That’s one of the reasons why heat exchangers have become such a popular electrical cooling solution. They rely on thermal management processes that epitomize eco-friendliness, and they those same processes allow heat exchangers to operate with minimal energy consumption. The secret lies in how heat exchangers transfer heat and the innovative ways in which they can be designed to fit virtually any application’s specific requirements. (more…)

Thermal Management that Doesn’t Require Constant Attention

Over the last century, technology of all types has advanced at a more rapid pace than ever before, and heat exchangers have played a vital role in many of those advancements. Simply allowing for more efficient and reliable ways to manage waste heat has provided innovators the freedom to create more powerful and compact designs than ever before. In more recent decades, most technological innovations have focused on allowing the humans that use them to be more productive with their time. This includes various forms of automated technology and equipment that are designed to operate with minimal or no human interaction. For such solutions to work, they require thermal management systems that are just as automated, which has made heat exchangers even more vital to such technology’s success. (more…)

Can Heat Exchangers Work in the Oil and Gas Industry?

Once companies began transforming their electrical cooling operations with the use of heat exchangers, the benefits of the innovative thermal management solutions became glaringly obvious. However, becoming a cornerstone of manufacturing and other technologies hasn’t always been easy. For instance, some operations still required cooling solutions that provided temperatures well below ambient temperatures, and therefore, still clung to air conditioners to effectively meet those needs. In some industries, operations often occur in extreme climates and conditions, which typical heat exchangers were not meant to withstand. As they’ve advanced, however, heat exchangers have become versatile enough to meet any demand that any industry requires, including the particularly tough conditions of the oil and gas industry. (more…)

What Heat Exchangers Actually Optimize

It’s become generally accepted that heat exchangers are often the preferable solution for streamlining electrical thermal management. Exactly how they do so is no secret – heat exchangers transfer heat instead of eliminating it – but the many different benefits that stem from streamlined thermal management often far exceed expectations. Besides simplifying the process of cooling electrical enclosures, cabinets, and equipment, heat exchangers also give companies the freedom to optimize several other areas of their operations, as well. (more…)

Important Aspects of Heat Exchanger Design

Like most forms of advanced technology, heat exchangers are often tailored to meet the specific needs of the application they’re used for. As the variety of technology has expanded, so have the different uses and operating specifications of modern heat exchangers. To continuously provide the high-quality thermal management capabilities that they’re known for, heat exchangers go through a series of concept and product designs, testing, and prototyping before being manufactured. These steps help ensure that every heat exchanger successfully meets or exceeds expectations. (more…)

Eco-Friendly Thermal Management for NEMA Enclosures

While cooling any electrical enclosure comes with a variety of concerns, maintaining enclosures that are designed to meet NEMA certifications comes with its own set of additional challenges. Besides being consistent and reliable, NEMA-class electrical cooling solutions also have to ensure the high level of ingress protection that the enclosure must maintain, as well as produce a minimal environmental footprint (or none at all). Fortunately, heat exchangers have excelled at meeting and exceeding expectations for electrical enclosures of all types, including NEMA-class ones that demand the highest quality thermal management solutions. (more…)

How Different Industries Benefit from Heat Exchangers

Thermal management comes in many different forms and has a wide variety of implications that are often specific to individual industries. One of the reasons why heat exchangers have excelled in almost every industry is because the advanced thermal management technology they’re designed from is versatile enough to address nearly all of those implications. While managing electrical waste heat is one of their most common applications, modern heat exchangers can also bring advanced heat transfer capabilities to bear for many other, equally important applications. (more…)