传热专家Conflux Technology在其商业产品中添加了另一种新产品：基于墨盒的热交换器。
Conflux Technology’s latest launch, which is essentially a 3D printed core that can be embedded into traditionally-manufactured housings, is said to deliver fewer pressure-drops and higher heat transfer in a compact design. Given that the product can be scaled and configured to meet user needs, the firm anticipates it finding defense, aerospace, EV, automotive, industrial and energy use cases.
“The [device’s] embedded thermal transfer lowers plumbing volume, performance impact and risks,” explained Dan Woodford, CEO of Conflux Technology. “Our growing suite of Conflux products each offers features tailored to our customer’s specific application fluids and packaging requirements.”
Conflux技术的“生产”
Conflux Technology由工程师Michael Fuller于2017年创立，专门培养3D打印的热和流体管理应用程序。富勒（Fuller）的职业生涯在F1工作，世界拉力赛冠军赛和勒芒赛车比赛中，在很大程度上看到了他在汽车中工作，但他和他的公司现在正在寻求破坏更广泛的热交换器市场。
SinceAM Ventures backed Conflux Technology五年前，该公司在研发工作中继续取得了重大进步。利用“同步器”粒子加速器，该公司提出了一种手段inspecting parts at a sub-macroscopic level。In another initiative, meanwhile, the business has worked withDeakin Universityto developnew heat exchanger 3D printing materials。
Earlier this year,Conflux Technology partnered with GKN Aerospace同样，在一项交易中，该交易将看到后者的技术用于为欧洲客户创建交换机，该交易商提供了高温零件，并提高了冷却效率。
但是，随着其发射3D打印水电空气冷却器今年早些时候，公司改变了战略。在引入第一批产品之前，Conflux Technology在其应用程序开发，设计，原型制作和低容量生产服务中已将其专业知识在很大程度上部署了。但是现在已经采用了“生产策略”，该战略一直持续使用Conflux墨盒。
Introducing the Conflux Cartridge
Drawing on its extensive heat exchanger R&D expertise, Conflux Technology’s latest product launch has seen it bring a versatile, compact core to market that can be integrated into other parts or casings. The device itself is designed to balance the thermal and hydraulic performance of complex temperature management systems across multiple applications.
由于拉ser powder bed fusion (LPBF), Conflux Technology says it’s possible to 3D print the Cartridges scalably, affordably and to directly meet the needs of their end users. In practice, this means the size and performance of the heat exchanger can be set according to customers’ performance priorities, and it can be configured specifically to handle their systems’ fluids and physical constraints.
According to Conflux Technology, its proprietary core also has tiny structures and internal geometries which can only be achieved with 3D printing, a technology that provides precise control over the ratio of surface area presented to each individual fluid, as well as optimizing aspects like heat transfer, turbulence and pressure drops.
在申请方面，预计该弹药筒在必须容易换成杂种或定期检查的系统中特别有用，因为它们可以轻松地换掉，该公司表示，那些用其最新产品代替旧版墨盒的人表示有益从显着改善的性能。
Conflux Technology的业务开发负责人本·巴塔戈尔（Ben BatagolFormnext。“我们正兴奋able to show how this level of performance is possible in such a compact package.”
Conflux Technology is no doubt pushing heat exchanger design forward, but it’s far from the only firm using 3D printing to do so. Late last year, for instance,3D Metalforge3D printed heat exchanger parts for Shell。Now installed at Shell’s site on Jurong Island, the durability-enhanced components have helped minimize equipment downtime there.
在过去,这样的通用电气的研究还与工程师合作University of Marylandand橡树岭国家实验室创建一个耐热温度高达900°C的热交换器。3D打印的设备具有独特的类似葡萄的几何形状，为其提供超过200°C超过200°C的最先进设备所需的极端热和压力阻力。
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Featured image shows Conflux Technology’s new Conflux Cartridge. Image via Conflux Technology.
