Liquid Cold Plate

Liquid cold plates for high power and high heat flux applications.

Liquid cold plate.

The performance of liquid cold plates varies greatly depending on the flow path and the accuracy of the contact surface with the heat source even if the material and pump capacity are the same. Component heat flows by conduction through a thermal interface material and the metal plate to the metal tubing. Serpentine tube in plate gun drilled multi piece designs friction stir welded vacuum or dip brazed. With its broad range of cold plate technologies ams technologies meets the most specific fluid compatibility and performance requirements.

When air cooled heat sinks cannot cope with too high power densities liquid cooled cold plates are the heat transfer solution of choice. The hydrotrak products are a superior performance liquid cold plate technology. Cold plates provide localized cooling by transferring heat from a device to a liquid that flows to a remote heat exchanger and dissipates into either the ambient or to another liquid in a secondary cooling system. These cost effective liquid cold plates are designed specifically for low to medium power density applications.

Columbia staver are experts in liquid cooling offering a range of cold plate e g. Hydrotrak the d6 hydrotrak series of liquid cold plates use a patented design and manufacturing technique making it a high performance liquid cold plate. Wakefield vette s rolled tube liquid cold plates are usually the most cost effective liquid cold plate solutions. This product line utilizes a custom tube profile that improves surface area and heat conduction angles from the surface to fluid.

The key attribute for this line of standard cold plates is that the liquid flow is contained in a continuous tube. Liquid cooled cold plates are commonly used for high heat flux or high power electronics cooling applications. Custom pressed tube liquid cold plates are available with either continuous tube styles or a manifold style to increase tube density within the liquid cold plate. Liquid cold plates are responsible for transferring heat from surfaces with high heat loads to the fluid used within a liquid cooling system.

These standards cold plates come in 2 and 4 pass versions. Uniform cooling since the coolant flowing inside the plate absorbs heat of device the surface temperature varies near the inlet and the outlet. The performance of these components is critical to the overall effectiveness of the liquid system.