For the application of cooling electrical enclosures, such as control panels, heat exchangers have excelled for decades. It isn’t just their reliability in consistently cooling such enclosures, but also the ability to do so with minimal energy, maintenance, and repair requirements. Given the many important benefits that they provide in electrical cooling, it’s only natural that the same efficient and eco-friendly heat transfer principles have led to thermal management innovations in areas beyond just keeping electrical enclosures cooled. Today, heat exchangers are commonly used for an increasingly wider variety of applications, which adds to their growing popularity across virtually every industry.
What Makes Them So Versatile?
Heat exchangers aren’t the only electrical thermal management solution that serves several other purposes, as well. For example, conventional air conditioning units that industries traditionally relied on are the same types of cooling systems that used to be used in most homes and automobiles. However, for the specific, high-performance needs of most industrial applications, heat exchangers are often the most economical and efficient solution, thanks largely to the different approaches they take to transferring heat. Instead of complicated air conditioning apparatus, they utilize eco-friendly cooling fluids (such as water) to transfer heat continuously.
Technologies That Benefit
This approach allows heat exchangers to bring the high-performance capabilities of liquid cooling to increasingly more applications. For example, industries that rely on large manufacturing equipment can often apply heat exchanger technology to that equipment without having to undergo a complete, company-wide system overhaul. More advanced solutions, such as automated machinery and assembly line equipment, have also been made possible with the help of the nearly automated electrical thermal management that heat exchangers provide. In addition to more advanced equipment, the innovative heat transfer capabilities of heat exchangers have also helped propel the improvement of several important processes beyond electrical cooling.
Processes Besides Electrical Thermal Management
While cooling electrical enclosures will always be a vital part of most industrial applications, companies today can also benefit from their capabilities by implementing heat exchangers into other processes. For example, in the quest to create more eco-friendly operations, many manufacturing companies have implemented in-house wastewater treatment processes. This requires a consistent application of heat, which heat exchangers can freely provide. Companies that rely on pasteurization, temperature-controlled storage and packaging, and more can also enjoy a number of cost-saving and environmentally friendly advantages thanks to heat exchangers.
For more information about how heat exchangers are being used for beyond cooling control panels, call Noren Thermal Solutions in Taylor, TX, at 866-936-6736.