Liquid cold plates offer superior cooling for high power electronic devices, and can be purchased as standard products or can be custom designed. A custom cold plate is needed when there is a special shape or interface requirement or an extreme performance requirement. An extreme performance requirement occurs when the specified performance cannot be uniformly applied across the entire cold plate or the pressure drop and/or cost of a compliant cold plate would be too high. The thermal map, or distribution of heat loads, may have one or several areas with high heat loads. If there are pressure drop requirements, cold plate surface temperature uniformity requirements, special shape or interface requirements, or cost limitations that eliminate a standard cold plate design, then a custom cold plate is the solution. Understanding cold plate technologies, thermal specifications, and the steps involved in the design process will help to optimize the custom cold plate design so it provides the best value possible.

Our cold plate technologies range from tubed cold plates and flat tube cold plates to performance-fin cold plates and liquid-cooled chassis. In a world of compact designs with increasing power densities, cold plates are satisfying demanding contact cooling requirements in applications as diverse as high-powered electronics, lasers, power drives, medical equipment, and military and aerospace. For high watt densities, when air-cooled heat sinks are inadequate, liquid-cooled cold plates are the ideal high-performance heat transfer solution.

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Our seasoned professionals can model and critique the thermal implications of your design using Icepak, Flotherm, CFD, Solidworks, ProE, and AutoCAD.  We can manage your thermal needs from the conceptual design stage, through prototypes and into production, which enable us to be your “one-stop” shop for quality thermal solutions, delivered on time and at competitive prices.

About Pioneer Thermal:

As a heat sink manufacturer in China, Pioneer Thermal is certified with ISO9001, ISO14001 and TS16949 with 7500 square meter facility, and has a dedicated quality assurance department with full CMM capabilities. We are focused on providing advanced technology, superior customer service and outstanding value to our industry partners.