When you own your own business, understanding your thermal management needs can be difficult. After all, this function is probably not your area of expertise, and you would rather get back to doing what you do best. But maintaining the internal temperatures of your equipment is vital to keeping your operation running smoothly. If your heat exchangers are not up to date, you could run the risk of overheating or starting a fire, leading to costly repairs, expensive downtime, and associated safety risks. By speaking with a consulting team who understands your needs, you can learn how to best protect your equipment from overheating.
At Noren Thermal Solutions, we have over fifty years of experience helping companies like yours manage their waste heat output. By taking time to discuss your operation with our team, we can help put into place a system that effectively keeps your equipment running cool. In today’s blog, we explore the difference between a heat sink and cold plate for managing your high temperatures.
Cold Plates Can Shift Heat Away From Surfaces
Cold plates are a very valuable piece of thermal management equipment that allows you to transfer heat away from a sensitive surface. Composed of aluminum, this device contains internal tubing that provides cooling to absorb surface heat. Utilizing a method called direct contact cooling, the plate takes heat from transistors and other components attached to the plate’s outer surface. The fluid is then transferred away from the plate to reduce the temperature of your electronics and allow them to continue operating. This effective method of cooling can be used in applications wherever direct contact is available.
Dispersing Energy With A Heat Sink
To reduce your cooling costs, you could take advantage of passive heat exchange with a heat sink. Often attached to circuit boards, a heat sink expands the total surface area available to absorb energy from the ambient air. This device resembles a box with many surfaces and creases stacked next to one another
Used in combination, your cold plate, or another piece of thermal management equipment, can take energy from equipment and move it towards your heat sink. This means that higher temperatures from direct contact cooling can be stored away from the equipment they would otherwise damage. To increase the transfer rate of our heat sinks, we use copper instead of cheaply made aluminum. Increasing the conductive capability of your heat sink greatly helps protect your application.
Helping Protect Your Valuable Equipment From Heat With Noren Thermal Solutions
When it comes to safely managing the temperatures of your equipment, we have decades of knowledge on hand. We can tailor a custom solution for your company today. To learn more, speak with a valued member of our team at Noren Thermal Solutions in Taylor, TX at (512)595-5700.