Tomorrow's Kitchen 3548360Cool Plate

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This technology is ideal for prototypes and small production runs as no tooling investment is required. Columbia-Staver are the go to experts in liquid cooling and offer a comprehensive range of cold plate technologies such as, Serpentine (tube in plate) designs, gun drilled, and multi piece designs that can have enhanced surface areas included in the liquid path. Columbia-Staver can select the joining method of a multi-piece design to suit the design and volume required. Columbia-Staver can also offer FSW (Friction Stir Welded) cold plates, Vacuum Brazed and Dip Brazed.

While online operations can experience improvements, offline analysis of aspects of inline cooling improves the function of MULPIC—from heat transfer and metallurgical properties to the impact of the cooling machine. MULPIC’s Digital Twin is a model that utilizes the same models as the Level 2 control system and cooling model that adds a user interface to perform offline simulations. These simulations allow steel producers to optimize the cooling process fully.

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Liquid cold plate solutions are currently deployed in: Renewable Energy Systems, Traction Systems, Medical Equipment, IGBT and Power Semi-Conductor Systems, Lasers, Data Centres, Industrial Power Applications, Defence Systems, Avionics, Fuel Cells, Battery Cooling and many more High Power and High Heat Flux Applications. Tube in Plate (Liquid cold plate)

While the MULPIC system consists of a cooling machine featuring precision valve control and an advanced automation system, a process model, or “digital twin,” allows for the integration of historical data, real-time information, and model adaption to impact the efficiency of continuous operation. Image of Cold Plate with the upper layer made transparent. This shows the flow path, in this case designed to perform like a Bubble Plate

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When applying plate cooling technology, the benefits for steel producers are abundant, including improved cost efficiency, reduced environmental impact, increased product versatility—i.e., from structural grades to abrasion-resistant steel—, leaner manufacturing, and enhanced quality and productivity. However, previous accelerated cooling technologies were without recent developments in automation and digitalization, which now take each of these improvements one step further. Primetals Technologies has combined its competencies in mechatronics, automation, and digitalization solutions to create the MULPIC system for inline cooling. Direct quenched (DQ) or abrasion-resistant steel plates on a cooling bed Near-surface optical micrograph taken from a test sample of direct quenched (DQ) or abrasion-resistant steel plate Introducing MULPIC Abrasion-resistant steel requires temperature control and flatness to achieve the correct microstructure. Cooling conditions can vary during rolling and result in nonuniform temperature profiles of the plate. Despite these challenges, the inline cooling technologies from Primetals Technologies demonstrated the successful application of direct quenching and temperature control to produce ideal and targeted surface microstructures directly after rolling, translating to the necessary hardness and toughness for demanding steel grades. Dependent on the required thermal performance and the cooling fluid to be used the tube can be copper or stainless steel and can be a simple mechanical (dry) press fit, press fit with a thermal epoxy boundary to eliminate micro voids or soldered in place for maximum thermal performance. Gun Drilled (Liquid cold plate) These cold plates have the advantage that there are no thermal boundaries and the aluminium plate has had no thermal stress during the manufacturing process so flatness is easier to achieve. FSW Friction stir welded (Liquid cold plate)