Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.

Posted on June 14, 2011

Lancaster, Pennsylvania - June 14, 2011. Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT), a leader in thermal solutions for commercial, military and aerospace markets, announced today that they have added two new webpages to assist engineers in utilizing copper-water heat pipes.

The first page, ACT's Heat Pipe Calculator, provides design engineers with a resource to quickly and easily determine the amount of power a particular heat pipe can transfer. The calculator uses standard wick structures and envelope thicknesses and outputs performance curves for copper-water heat pipes of different diameters. For more complex and challenging designs, contact an ACT representative directly. But for first cut thermal design, ACT's Heat Pipe Calculator will give quick feedback on the amount and size of heat pipes needed in your design.

Heat Pipe Calculator

http://www.1-act.com/heatpipes/performance_form

The second page is ACT's Heat Pipe Design Guide. One of the advantages of heat pipes is their design flexibility. This webpage explains several methods used to integrate heat pipes into assemblies. It discusses bending and flattening of heat pipes as well as attachment techniques and testing recommendations. Once again these values are guides to heat pipe design, the best resource is to contact a member of the ACT team for a workable heat pipe solution.

Heat Pipe Design Guide

http://www.1-act.com/resources/heat-pipe-design-guide.php

Copper-Water heat pipes are typically used in electronics cooling or other systems to isothermalize a surface or to transfer heat to an external heat sink. Heat pipes are often coupled with other components to form heat transfer assemblies. ACT regularly embeds heat pipes in aluminum plates to improve the bulk conductivity of aluminum (See Hi-K Plate). Please contact a member of the ACT team when considering using heat pipes. We can provide even more information on design optimization, integration, and manufacturing.

About Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.

ACT specializes in two phase heat transfer and thermal product development. ACT designs and manufactures heat pipes, pumped liquid and two-phase loops and thermal storage devices for customers in aerospace, electronics, temperature calibration and government R&D sectors. ACT's team consists of personnel with established track records in technology development, commercialization and production. Many of them were involved in pioneering work on heat pipes, loop heat pipes and other two-phase heat transfer devices. They are the inventors/co-inventors on more than sixty U.S. and international patents and the authors/co-authors of more than three hundred fifty scientific publications. ACT's facility measures more than 30,000 square feet, including office, laboratory and manufacturing spaces. ACT is capable of performing complex design, analysis, manufacture and testing work including CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), FEA (Finite Element Analysis), 3-D solid modeling, vacuum processing, high temperature materials processing, and high heat flux testing. This facility has produced thermal hardware with the following operating ranges:

• Temperatures: from -150 to 1,100°C.
• Pressures: from 10-9 torr to 10,000psi.
• Heat fluxes: to 1,500W/cm2.
• Heat load: from less than 1W to 540kW

ACT is certified to AS9100-B standards for aerospace applications and ISO 9001:2008 standards for terrestrial applications.

For information about ACT, visit www.1-ACT.com.