THERMAL MANAGEMENT
COOLING C
CUSTOM
Matthew Dale discovers that laser cooling is an undefined art, as thermal management firms turn to adaptable modular systems to meet individual customer demands
ooling solutions for industrial lasers can be complex and costly. With the development of smaller compressors over
the past three years, cooling systems have been brought down in size, and even integrated within lasers themselves to help minimise the floor space of the machine. AMS Technologies, for instance, has developed a water-free cooling solution that reduces the footprint of its thermal management equipment. With laser manufacturers each
having their own ideas and philosophies about how a laser should be designed, it becomes increasingly challenging for cooling suppliers to offer a suitable thermal solution for each device using a defined range of cooling products. ‘In the future, especially for
embedded assemblies, the mechanical constraints will always be different,’ commented Jan Meise, CEO of AMS Technologies. ‘Tere won’t be one chiller that covers everything; customisation will be needed in order to achieve that.’ Te main focus, according to Erik
16 Glen Dimplex Thermal Solutions’ built-in chiller features a refrigerant circuit that can be maintained in five steps
Neumann, system manager of cooling at Glen Dimplex Termal Solutions, is therefore not so much on having a series of products, but rather the right technology, the right processes and the right understanding of the customers’ requirements. ‘When you are able to understand the needs of the customer you can then look at your own technology portfolio and … design new components in a way that they can be combined to form an
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individualised cooling system suited to the new laser,’ he said. Both Glen Dimplex and AMS
Technologies therefore take a modular approach to cooling that enables them to adapt to the individual specifications of each customer. ‘Laser system manufacturers and integrators have a lot of varying needs,’ commented Neumann. ‘Laser manufacturers have new system generations and newly developed technologies, and so
require multiple variations of cooling systems. System integrators work with entire laser networks, in addition to hydraulics and controller concepts, and so modular systems are an efficient way to address these complex situations.’ Using a modular approach, both
firms are able to address individual customer demands, which cannot be addressed with standard defined products. ‘It’s more important to think of the system as a whole, and
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