Category: Cold Plates

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 »

Effective thermal management comes in a variety of forms these days, and in most cases, heat exchangers can be designed in equally various ways to achieve optimal results. Cold plate heat exchangers, for instance, can be designed for systems that require high effective heat transfer coefficients across large surfaces. Cold plates, which are usually crafted… Read more »

In the world of heat exchanger technology, optimal performance relies on expert custom design. Sometimes, that means modifying certain aspects of common heat exchangers to fit the specifications of a unique design, or custom-designing thermal management solutions to ensure that unique applications’ needs are met. For instance, Noren Thermal has helped clients find optimal thermal management… Read more »