Thermal storage
Capturing waste heat from a liquid-cooled facility
Warm liquid cooling produces heat at a temperature worth recovering. See what that asks of the fluid, the loop architecture and the storage medium.
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Thermal storage
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Thermal storage
How much phase-change material do I need?
Phase-change material is sized from the energy it must hold, divided by its latent heat. See how the arithmetic runs, and where the usable capacity is lost.
Thermal storage
Choosing a phase-change material for cold-chain temperature control
Learn how to specify cold-chain phase-change materials using temperature targets, freezing and melting behaviour, containment and model-specific evidence.
Thermal storage
Phase-change temperature is not an operating temperature
Phase-change materials are specified by a transition temperature, not a working setpoint. See how the grades differ and what to verify first.