3D Printing Heat Exchanger
From design freedom to energy efficiency - reshaping what heat exchangers can achieve
DMLS offers many advantages to companies in the electronics industry, including faster time to market, the manufacturing of prototypes, pilot and small production series parts, and quickly implementing customer-specific solutions. Whether you need heat exchangers, housings, communication parts, drones, three-dimensional circuit boards or inductors – the diversity of possible additive manufacturing applications spans the entire industry.
Heat Exchanger Production With EOS 3D Printing Solutions
At EOS, we’re ready to support your applications - from machines and peripherals to materials and consulting services - for the successful introduction, implementation, and expansion of your additive manufacturing program. Our portfolio is built upon decades of market experience, deep expertise in industry-specific requirements, and collaboration with leading partners.
justairtech
justairtech and EOS developed a 3D-printed fractal air-to-air heat exchanger that makes chillers up to 5× more efficient while using 80% less electricity. Despite extreme structural requirements, EOS enabled the design through advanced DMLS process tuning, drastically reducing build time from 110 to 16 hours and making the innovation ready for industrial use.
- 5× more efficient, 80% less power
- Ultra-fine heat exchanger made possible by DMLS
- Build time reduced from 110 to ~16 hours
Betatype
Betatype is a technology company specializing in design for 3D printing that constantly pushes the limits of additive manufacturing. By carefully balancing the stacking of cooling elements while also minimizing support structures, the available space was exploited optimally: 384 parts were manufactured in a single batch.
An optimized design and intelligent laser scanning paths reduced the production time from 444 hours to just 34 hours. This provided significant cost advantages to Betatype’s customers: the unit costs were reduced by 90%.
Conflux
Heat exchangers can be 3D-printed from high-quality thermally conductive alloys combining various advantageous properties such as flexible design, optimized heat transport properties and reduced size.
Additive manufacturing allowed Conflux to design internal geometries that radically increased the surface area in a given volume. This tripled the thermal heat rejection and at the same time the pressure drop is reduced by two-thirds. Additionally, a compact and new design with a 55 % reduction in length was realized.
TheSys
TheSys is an engineering service provider that develops cooling systems, air conditioning systems and heat exchangers. Together with EOS and AM Metals, they pushed the limits of feasibility to develop a state-of-the-art gaming CPU heat exchanger that was optimized for additive manufacturing in just a week of development.
With the flexible EOS M 290 metal manufacturing system, AM Metals GmbH manufactured a water-cooled heat exchanger that provides the same cooling capacity with just one fifth of the size. Compared to other leading gaming CPU coolers, it is also 76 % lighter.
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Rethinking Thermal Management
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This blog explains how additive manufacturing is revolutionizing thermal management by enabling highly efficient, lightweight, and complex cooling solutions that outperform traditional heat dissipation methods.
Innovation of Thermal Management
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Additive manufacturing enables highly efficient, space-saving cooling solutions for modern miniaturized electronics by providing new design freedoms and outperforming traditional thermal technologies.
3D Printing for Semiconductors
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Enabling high-precision, high-performance components for next-generation semiconductor manufacturing.
