How to design a efficient thermal solution for industrial control equipment?

 Industrial Personal Computer (IPC) is an Industrial control Computer, is a bus structure, which is the generic term of the production process, mechanical and electrical equipment, process equipment for testing and control tools. Commercial high power computers generally adopt the fan heat dissipation mode, although simple and efficient, but there is a fatal drawback: the operation time is long, the fan and the motherboard will have a thick layer of dust and soot. If the industrial computer adopts a fanless cooling system, it can avoid dust, soot, and signal interference. how to design an efficient thermal solution for industrial computer?

  The fanless industrial computer case adopts a metal structure, which not only has high anti-magnetic, dust-proof, and shock-proof capabilities, but also has efficient heat dissipation capabilities.

  Usually a heat sink is designed for the internal CPU and motherboard, the material of heat sink is aluminum or copper as both of two metals have excellent thermal conductivity, between the industrial control heat sink and electronic components, a thermal interface material is applied as it can fill in the gap between the heat sink and CPU to reduce the thermal resistance. For the low power industrial computer, we usually select aluminum extruded heat sink, as it has great thermal performance and cost efficiency, but for high power device, we need to design better thermal performance heat sink, copper skived fin heat sink or aluminum fin with heat pipes, As heat pipe has much better thermal conductivity than any metal, it can absorb the heat and transfer it to the aluminum fins rapidly. the heat sink fins are usually made by aluminum alloy due to aluminum has extraordinary heat dissipation performance.

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