Cement and glass manufacturing are continuous process industries that require advanced and thermal solutions to optimise their output. Both manufacturing sectors depend on heat for processing. This means they depend on controlling this heat to ensure consistency and quality in their end-products. Thermal solutions for continuous processes centre on furnace lining materials. These include mica and microporous insulation.
In the aerospace industry, thermal management materials are mission-critical. While safety and efficiency have always been at the heart of aerospace technology, the integration of more functions into smaller components now requires increasingly adaptable thermal management solutions.
Thermal insulation is an essential process across a range of industries, but for many of its applications, there are also practical considerations to do with cost, as well as efficiency and adaptability. This is why thin thermal insulation is becoming a key area of research and development.
A heat sink is a passive heat exchanger. This means it transfers heat from an object to a coolant, either air or liquid. This coolant then dispels any heat generated by the object.
Thermal management for electronics is critical where electronic components produce significant amounts of heat. Where this is the case, effective thermal management will prolong the working life of these components and also increase their reliability.
Thermal management materials are essential in automotives, and this applies to emerging and developing automotive technology as much as it does established applications.
Some metals dissipate
heat more effectively than others, and this thermal conductivity is essential
in a range of applications. Thermal conductivity is the measure of a metal’s
ability to conduct heat. What this means is that that the metal acts to cool
temperatures, through a process of dissipation.