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We have two specialized R&D departments for liquid coldplates and cooling units, focused on the development and testing of all the new projects. Our capabilities includes selection and use of all possible needed accessories to provide the complete cooling chain like couplings, tubes/pipes and manifolds.
Our specific know how in liquid cooling enables our people to focus on demanding applications, where the reliability and performances are the key factors.

The two departments can also cooperate together providing an all-around approach to the thermal problem.

Development of liquid cold plates

Our thermal engineers design liquid cold plates for different level of power density, different level of total power capacity and taking care of the different heat distribution, with a wide experience on CFD simulations and applications of our core competences. The R&D team works side by side with the manufacturing department, in order to have the best time to market.

Specific softwares

  • 3D Mechanical design: Solidworks.
  • CFD Simulation: FlowWorks CFD.
  • Hypermill CAD CAM

Development of cooling units

A specialized team designs and produces customized cooling units, named ALS (air to liquid), LLS (liquid to liquid) and CCS (compressor based).

Normally in the market ALS and LLS are identified as ‘’passive systems or solutions’’ while CCS as ‘’active systems or solutions’’ or ‘’chillers’’

Our team includes system engineers,  mechanical engineers, software engineers and PLC experts.

We can also count a very strong partnership with external consultants in order to be able to manage and lead all possible new developments.

For CCS family we are also in the development of new solutions that takes into account new FGAS regulations.

We have successfully developed a wide range of cooling units for different markets

  • ALS: Air to Liquid cooling units up to 100kW.
  • LLS: Liquid to Liquid cooling units up to 300kW.
  • CCS: Compressor based chillers up to 30kW, based on R134a and R410a refrigerants, and now under development with new GAS following the coming regulation.

Specific softwares

  • 3D Mechanical design: Solidworks.
  • FEM simulation
  • Low level programming: Visual Studio, C++, MatLab.
  • High level programming: Labview, Twincat 3 (Beckhoff), TiaPortal (Siemens).
  • Control and simulation: MatLab, Simulink