COOLERCHIPS Program - Advanced Cooling System for Data Centers

A $5 Million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supports NVIDIA and seven partners, including Boyd, to build an advanced liquid cooling sy...

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Generative AI and EV Batteries: Why Liquid Cooling?

Generative AI and EV Batteries: Why Liquid Cooling? Advancing technologies like high performance artificial intelligence (AI) and electric vehicle (EV...

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Right Sizing Liquid Components and Systems

The Benefits of "Right-Sizing" Components & Systems Designers sometimes oversize components in order to build in a margin of safety. However, this...

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Regenerative Turbine Pump Maintenance

The following is a brief overview of some fundamental heat transfer concepts. To learn more, the reader is encouraged to review the source publication...

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The Basics of Heat Transfer

Heat Spreading Heat spreaders offer cost-effective, reliable high thermal conductivity and efficacy with almost no moving parts. A heat spreader is an...

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The Basics of Compressor-Based Refrigeration

When trying to understand how a compressor based cooling system works, you must keep three physical phenomena in mind: Fundamental Physical Principles...

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Frequently Asked Thermal Questions

Get answers to frequently asked questions about heat pipes, thermal technology and thermal management. Heat Pipes and Heat Exchangers What is a heat p...

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Laser Liquid Cooling Optimization

The performance of high-powered lasers depends on effective cooling. High-powered lasers generate a significant amount of heat that must be removed fr...

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High Performance Liquid Cooling Loop Design

Embedded systems are becoming more complex, processing and analyzing a growing number of sensors and signals. The result of this increased computing i...

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Liquid Cooling Introduction

Liquid cooling is an effective way to remove high heat loads from components. Excessive heat can compromise the reliability of a system and engineers ...

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Selecting a Liquid Cooling System

Ambient cooling systems, recirculating chillers, liquid-to-liquid cooling systems there are so many different cooling technologies that selecting...

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Assessing the Quality of a Tubed Cold Plate

As many applications move from air cooling to liquid cooling, tubed cold plates are often a cost efficient and popular solution. Although many local s...

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Liquid Cold Plate Manufacturing Cost Drivers

Liquid cold plate prices can vary quite a bit; understanding why can help you cut costs and still obtain the performance you need to properly cool you...

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Designing Custom Liquid Cold Plates

Liquid-cooled cold plates offer superior cooling for high power electronic devices and can be purchased as standard products or can be custom designed...

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Selecting a Liquid Cold Plate Technology

Complex systems that utilize liquid flow rely on leak-free systems, dependable liquid containment, transport, and sealing solutions. These active syst...

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Sizing a Heat Exchanger for Cold Plate Applications

In many liquid cooling loops, the heat that is picked up by a cold plate is rejected to ambient air via a heat exchanger. Calculating the Thermal Resi...

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Heat Exchanger Manufacturing Cost Drivers

Heat exchanger prices can vary quite a bit; understanding why can help you cut costs and still obtain the performance you need to properly cool your a...

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Selecting a Heat Exchanger

In order to select the correct heat exchanger or oil cooler, you must first determine required thermal performance for your application. Use the examp...

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Introduction to Pressure Drop

Thermal interface material (TIM) is a crucial part of any thermal management solution. Since it's physically a small portion of most applications, it'...

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Couplers, Hose Clamps and Fitting Selection

Fluid line connectors are essential to liquid cooling loops. Engineers must consider selection, installation, and maintenance of a system's fluid conn...

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Avoiding Corrosion in Liquid Cooling Systems

Water and water/glycol solutions are common heat transfer fluids used in cooling systems and recirculating chillers. Although the fluids are the lifeb...

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Liquid Cooling System Pump Overview

Complex systems that utilize liquid flow rely on leak-free systems, dependable liquid containment, transport, and sealing solutions. These active syst...

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The Best Heat Transfer Fluids for Liquid Cooling

Once you've determined liquid cooling is the solution, do you know what heat transfer fluid to use? One of the most important factors when choosing a ...

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Recirculating Chiller Protection Options and Fluid Compatibility

Recirculating chillers are "off-the-shelf" liquid cooling systems that offer precise temperature control and/or cooling below ambient temperatures. Ex...

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Chiller Temperature Control

Industrial chillers are commonly used to circulate a constant temperature fluid in a closed loop with liquid cooled instruments and tools in order to ...

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Recirculating Chiller Maintenance

Recirculating chillers are cooling systems that provide precise temperature control as well as cooling below ambient temperature. Key Preventative Mea...

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Selecting a Recirculating Chiller & Cooling Capacity Factors

Selecting the proper recirculating chiller is a function of four factors: The heat load generated by the device being cooled (Q)The maximum acceptable...

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Heat Exchanger Fan Selection

A heat exchanger is a device designed to efficiently transfer or "exchange" heat from one matter to another. When a fluid is used to transfer heat, th...

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Boyd's Essential Sealing, Thermal, and Protection Solutions in the Fight Against COVID-19

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate, the world is faced with new challenges each to combat and overcome the virus. With each rising chall...

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How Are Semiconductors Made?

Semiconductors enable billions of electronic devices that we use daily, but how exactly are they created? How Are Semiconductors Manufactured? Billion...

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Stainless Steel Alloys

While stainless steel is a durable material for many applications, not all steel alloys are created equal. As one of the most common materials for par...

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What Are Bonded Fin Heat Sinks?

Bonded Fin Heat Sink Assemblies are ideal for high fin:gap aspect ratios that maximizing heat transfer in forced convection solutions. Bonded Fin Heat...

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Electric Vehicle Batteries: Protecting Against Collision and Thermal Runaway

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Learn how Boyd helps protect electric vehicle batteries against collision impact and li-ion thermal runaway Battery charge range historically cha...

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Designing Coolant Distribution Units (CDU) into Data Center Systems

When it comes to designing a CDU into a data center, few things are as important as ensuring sensitive components maintain the proper operating temper...

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How Hot is too Hot? The Real Maximum Temperature of Your Product

Summer is upon us and it brings some sweltering hot days with it. This is a great time of year to consider your next product and the thermal condition...

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Brazed Fin Heat Sinks: Baked to Perfection

Brazing generates solid thermal and mechanical joints for fabricating heat sinks, liquid cold plates, heat exchangers, and chassis. What is Brazing? B...

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