How to improve the thermal performance of industrial control equipment?
As we are in the information age, automated assembly lines, smart parking lot management systems, housekeeping service robots, industrial machine tools and other automated machinery equipment are in every aspect of life and production, bringing convenience and efficiency to people. The industrial control computer is applied in many industies. it is the brain of the systems.
The industrial control computer (IPC) uses a bus structure to detect and control the production process, electromechanical equipment, and process equipment. Industrial control machines have important computer attributes and characteristics, such as computer motherboards, CPUs, hard disks, memory, peripherals and interfaces, and have operating systems, control networks and protocols, computing power, and man-machine interfaces. The products and technologies of the industrial control industry are very special. They belong to intermediate products and provide stable, reliable, embedded and intelligent industrial computers for other industries.
The industrial control computer is an operational platform based on an embedded system. It can realize the functions of the currently widely used industrial control machines, tablet computers, human-machine interfaces and other products. It is the core of controlling machines and equipment. Long term work, so it is necessary to have excellent battery life and stability, and have efficient heat dissipation performance.
The thermal problem of machinery and equipment has always been the main issue to its performance. In reality, the conversion of energy cannot be fully transformed. There are some inevitable factors that cause some energy loss. A large part of energy turned into heat. High temperature is one of the main factors that cause the performance failure of the device. Too high temperature can easily lead to crash and even damage the indusrial control computer.
As a equipment that interacts with people, the industrial control computer is mainly embedded, so the internal space is relatively narrow. Many parts such as integrated circuits, semiconductor, electronic components are designed in the space, Most of the industrial control computer takes 24 hours and long term operation, so its working environment is very harsh, so the heat dissipation performance should meet the thermal requirements.
How to improve the thermal performance of the industrial control computer? We usually design a high power performance heat sink for the device, as the space is narrow, the heat sink should have great thermal conductivity and heat dissipation performance, usually the heat sink consists of heat pipes with aluminum fins, or vapor chamber. As heat pipe and vapor chamber are two phase thermal components, which have excellent thermal conductivity than any metal, it can absorb the heat from the CPU or other electronic components very quickly and transfer it to the aluminum fins, aluminum has excellent heat dissipation performance, when the heat was transferred to the aluminum fins, it can be dissipated rapidly. Aslo, when the heat sink conduct the CPU, there will be some tiny gaps between the heat sink and CPU, and the thermal performance would be impacted. So the thermal interface material is often applied between the heat sink and CPU when install the heat sink, the TIM can fill in the gap to reduce the thermal resistance to improve the thermal performance.
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