Links: Heat Transfer, Thermal Analysis, Thermal Products

Societies, Groups, and Universities
- Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering - Electronic Cooling Research Center
- TURBULENCE AND HEAT TRANSFER LABORATORY, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo
- International Thermoelectric Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the thermoelectric industry, science and technology.
- ASM International is a Society whose mission is to gather, process and disseminate technical information. ASM fosters the understanding and application of engineered materials and their research, design, reliable manufacture, use and economic and social benefits.
- The research activities at DINMA - Sezione di Fisica Tecnica are related to the numerical prediction of time-dependent, transitional and weakly turbulent buoyancy-induced and buoyancy affected flows. These type of flow problems are encountered in numerous and diverse engineering applications such as, for example, compact heat exchangers, cooling of electronic equipment, crystal growth, chemical vapor deposition of semiconducting layers and solidification of ingots.
- University of Minnesota: Thermal Management of Electronic Systems This laboratory is devoted to the study of thermal phenomena in electronic systems, including: convective cooling, ebullient cooling, and the thermostructural behavior of plastics and adhesives used in electronic packaging. The study and development of immersion cooling with dielectric liquids is a special focus of this laboratory. The poems are exceptional!
- The Fire Science Centre at the University of New Brunswick
Consultants
- QSIGMA Associates is a professional engineering consulting firm specializing in thermal management.
- Astro Research is an engineering company, researches and develops artificial satellites and space craft components. Astro Research was established in July, 1996 in Fujisawa, Japan
- MAYA has a proven international reputation for excellence in providing high quality software solutions, consulting engineering, and software support services. Specializing in the thermal field.
- ZT Services, Inc. Information, consulting and analytic services for the thermoelectric and energy conversion communities.
- R.C. Costello & Assoc., Inc. consults to the chemical process industries. They are involved in heat transfer and offer the APEX2000 fluidized bed heat exchanger.
- Turner Associates Consultants
Products & Services
- PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS - Response Drive Support are specialists in Process Control Systems. This includes retrofitting variable speed drives, PLC, and SCADA systems into existing machines
- Multi-Layer Insulation BlanketsAerospace Fabrication & Materials, LLC (AFM) is a manufacturing company that specializes in the design, fabrication and installation of Multilayer Insulation (MLI) for Aerospace as well as Cryogenic applications.
- Multi-Layer Insulation BlanketsCAD Cut manufactures Multi-Layer Insulation Blankets to customer specification. MLI Blankets are used in cryogenics, aerospace, industrial equipment, and other radiant thermal barrier applications.
- Chemical Engineering Information and Software at Cheresources.com Your complete source for chemical engineering information, calculation spreadsheets, free articles, newsletters, and a complete online community. Perfect for process and design engineers as well as students.
- Paratherm Heat Transfer Fluids, (Thermal Fluids, Hot Oils, Diathermic Oils) for Process Heating and Cooling
- Lytron - Heat Exchangers, Liquid Cooling, Cold Plates, Oil Coolers & thermal management solutions!
- Cambridge AccuSense Inc. developer of multipoint air velocity instruments and sensors.
- Holometrix Micromet (formerly Dynatech Scientific) is the leader in providing instruments and testing services for measuring the thermal properties of materials. We serve key industries including electronics, automotive, aerospace, building materials, appliances and petro-chemical applications.
- American Energy Exchange, AEX, is an established full service manufacturer of air-to-air energy recovery systems specializing in a complete line of packaged ventilators, dehumidifiers, double dehumidifiers and air handlers utilizing aluminum plate exchangers, sensible and totalenergy wheels and heat pipes.
- HAAKE Thermal Conductivity - The Thermoflixer is a unit for the measurement of thermal conductivity of plastics and other materials in solids, liquid, and melt-phase as a function of temperature.
- HUKSEFLUX specializes in the design of thermal sensors for measurement of heat flux, thermal gradients and thermal conductivity. It has developed some area's of major expertise. All these area's are related to measurements of thermal properties, heat fluxes and differential temperatures, reflecting the Hukseflux philosophy to focus on thermal sensors.
- Outdoor Thermal Solutions is an engineering firm specialized in the thermal management and protection of all your outdoor equipment. We provide consulting services from a simple solar load calculation to complete shelter cooling system design, development and deployment.
- Electronics Cooling The Central Resource for Practitioners in the Field of Electronics Thermal Management.
- Melcor is the world leader in thermoelectrics, shipping more TECs around the globe than any other manufacturer. Melcor offers its thermoelectric design software program free of charge at its website.
- Fokker Space is a Dutch Company with 450 employees. The company was founded in 1969 as the Space department of Fokker Aircraft, Netherlands. Now, Fokker Space is an independent space company since November 1995. Our business is mainly in Solar Arrays (ENVISAT, AXAF), Robotics (European Robotic Arm), Structures (Ariane 4 & 5), Payloads (SCIAMACHY, MIPAS), Technical Operation (ERS Integration & Test) and Thermal Control (Cluster, ERS, ULYSSES, GIOTTO, HIPPARCOS, IRAS, Passive Coolers). Fokker Space has a 1500 m^2 cleanroom (class 100.000 and class 100) and numerous thermal and structural test facilities at our sites in Amsterdam and Leiden.
- ZIRCAR Products, Inc: High temperature insulating products.
- Thermophysical Properties Research Laboratory does the following measurements: Thermal Conductivity (solids, some liquids, multilayer solids) Thermal Expansion and Coefficient of Expansion Specific Heat Thermal Diffusivity (solids, some liquids, multilayer solids) Electrical Resistivity (electrically conductive samples) Total Hemispherical Emissivity Contact Conductance Thompson Coefficient
- Saddleback Aerospace is a small business specializing in thermal management, high power electronics cooling, and thermal protection in extremely high heat flux environments.
- Aavid Thermal Technologies
- Compix Inc. - Thermal imaging is the process of creating a picture of heat rather than light. The technique has been used in night vision applications by the military and law enforcement agencies for years. Increasingly it is finding uses in commercial applications in process control, non-destructive and reliability testing.
- The Swales Thermal Department provides expertise in the design and analysis of thermal control systems for orbiting/geostationary payloads (ELV/STS launched) and deep space probes including cryogenic systems: Activities include:
- Delsen Testing Laboratories Inc.
- High Temperature Materials Information Analysis Center (HTMIAC) theHigh Temperature Materials Information Analysis Center (HTMIAC) HTMIAC is a U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center, sponsored by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), and operated by the Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis (CINDAS) at Purdue University.
- Transport Properties Laboratory: measurements of the thermal conductivity and viscosity of industrial fluids, computer packages for the prediction of transport properties, computer simulations of specialised industrial processes, temperature calibration of various sensors and instruments, etc.
Solar

Energy Efficiency

Prime Energy Sources

Geopowering the West
Geothermal Energy Association
Geothermal Energy Program
Geothermal Energy Technical Site
University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center. The EERC is one of the world's leading energy and environmental facilities. The Center conducts research on all ranks of coal and is recognized as an international leader in low-rank coal research and technology. Other major and expanding programs include the areas of advanced power systems, waste disposal, waste reuse, air emissions control, biomass fuels, energy policy, contaminant cleanup, and mine land reclamation.
The mission of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is to discover, develop, and deliver high value technological advances through networking and partnership with the electricity industry.
Global Solar Partners
GoingSolar
Home Power Magazine
High-Performance Photovoltaic Project
Hydrogen Information Network
International Centre for Hydropower
Micro Hydropower
National Wind Technology Center
Wind Powering America

Educational

Brian's Space Hotlist, Hosted by the Space Systems Laboratory
Great links to Great Science Resources For students, parents, teachers, scientists, engineers and mathematicians.
REFERENCES: HEAT TRANSFER, Westphal/WSU/1996
Northwestern University, Institute for Learning Sciences, just released software for analyzing thermodynamic cycles . The software is intended for educational settings.
Introduction to temperature controllers.
About Temperature. This document was prepared for the middle school math teachers who are taking part in Project Skymath. It is also hoped that the general public will find it interesting.
DME Thermal System Introduction. This scenario describes an example of an analysis of the performance of a power cycle.
Demostrations: Properties of Heat and Matter.
Welcome to Quest! Home of NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative.

Meetings & Conferences

2008 ASME Heat Transfer Summer Conference, Hyatt Regency Riverfront
Jackonsville, Florida, USA August 10-14, 2008
The 6th Annual Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics Conference at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa in 2008

Miscellaneous, Articles, Papers . .

The Antikythera Mechanism, built in Rhodes in about 80 BC, is the most sophisticated scientific instrument surviving from antiquity. It is an astronomical calculator with precision gearing, containing 32 bronze gears including a differential gear, and accurate to 1 part in 40,000.
Roman engineer's approach to plumbing
Obscure Patents From the unusual to the bizarre
The Thermal Energy Storage (TES) experiments are designed to provide data for understanding the long-duration microgravity behavior of thermal energy storage fluoride salts that undergo repeated melting and ...
In a multi-board computer system, the volume allocated for heat removal is often a significant fraction of the total system volume. Cooling requirements . . .
The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. The Journal is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to know what happened during the missions and why.
Hypothermia - How we lose heat to the environment.
ALMR Cooling System The ALMR uses liquid Sodium as a coolant. Sodium is the coolant of choice because of its poor neutron moderating abilities and because it has terrific heat transfer characteristics. Being a highly conductive liquid metal, most of the heat transfer occurs through conduction.
Space Shuttle Orbiter Thermal Protection System.
The Space InfraRed Telescope Facility (SIRTF), currently under design by NASA, is planned to be a cryogenically cooled observatory to conduct infrared astronomy from space following its launch early next decade.
Work with Hubble continues with the development of the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) for the University of Arizona. Due to launch Feb 13, 1997.

Shareware and Public Domain

Shareware Steam Property program.
Shareware CFD codes. Public Domain CFD codes.
Free Engineering Software. Compliments of R.C. Costello & Assoc., Inc., Consulting Engineers.

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