Category: Cold Plates

Heat exchangers have evolved considerably since they first became popular in the realm of electrical thermal management. Today, companies have a wide range of options to choose from, including heat pipes or cold plates, each of which is designed to achieve optimal results according to the parameters of the applications for which their designed. For… Read more »

While modern heat exchangers have led the way for many different thermal management innovations, their unique air-cooling techniques haven’t been the only ones. In many high-performance, often groundbreaking applications, processes such as liquid cooling can often provide more satisfactory results. However, liquid cooling hasn’t typically been as widely available as more conventional heat exchangers. That’s… Read more »

After becoming a staple of electrical enclosure cooling and other advanced thermal management processes, heat exchangers quickly became a catalyst for innovation. They gave designers and consumers of technology the ability to create and implement faster, more powerful, and more reliable thermal management solutions. Heat exchangers themselves also now come in a wide range of… Read more »

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,… Read more »

Cooling electrical enclosures may not seem like an area ripe for innovation, but not long ago, such electrical thermal management concerns were significant to companies in most industries. That’s because the most common thermal management solutions, such as air conditioners and compressed air units, were often costly and cumbersome to operate. However, they were necessary,… Read more »

As heat exchangers and the technologies that they’ve been created to cool have evolved, the methods by which they achieve their goals have also grown more innovative. For example, modern heat exchangers come in several different forms and accomplish a wide variety of goals, such as cold plate heat exchangers that offer broad, high-performance thermal… Read more »

Since heat exchangers became popular as high-performance thermal management solutions, they’ve become even more versatile as manufacturers have developed numerous variations of the technology. For example, while heat pipe-based units were one of the first types of heat exchangers to be widely implemented, cold plates have become as equally common and popular for a wide… Read more »

The greatest advantage of today’s advanced heat exchangers is that they can be designed to address virtually every type of thermal management need for nearly any type of application. For example, cold plates are a specific type of heat exchanger that are frequently utilized for high-performance applications that require efficient heat transfer across varying spaces…. Read more »

In many applications, air cooling is the most efficient thermal management solution, and modern heat exchangers can provide it with maximum efficiency and minimal energy usage. Yet, for many advanced, high-performance technological applications, air cooling and the units that achieve it are often not viable. For instance, today’s smart devices and small but powerful processors… Read more »

In addition to optimizing the science of thermal management, one of the greatest advantages that heat exchanger technology offers today’s industries is the ability to adapt to a wide variety of unique needs. For instance, many industries rely on thermal management for more than just cooling control panels, and many of those applications require the… Read more »