High-performance Two-phase Immersion Coolant for Thermal Management
Overview
NAMI’s next-gen immersion coolant slashes cooling costs while enhancing system stability.
Commercialisation opportunities
Non-exclusive licensing
Problem addressed
Traditional air cooling for high-performance computers and servers suffers from poor heat transfer efficiency, leading to high energy consumption.
Innovation
- Through molecular engineering, NAMI has successfully developed a series of new immersion coolants to resolve the challenges in thermal management: providing higher thermophysical properties, reliable dielectric performance, high material compatibility, non-toxicity and low environmental impact.
- Cooling system utilizing NAMI’s high-performance two-phase immersion coolant in Civil Aviation Department’s Control Tower Simulator achieved 25% cooling energy savings under various testing environments.
Key impact
- High heat transfer rate and effective heat dissipation
- Safe and reliable: no flash point and non-flammable
- Reduced energy consumption & cost: save cooling energy up to 25% compared with air cooling system in data centers under various testing environments
- Improved power usage effectiveness (PUE): improve PUE to 1.03
Award
- Winner of 2023 R&D100 Awards
Application
- Control Tower Simulator
- High-performance computing systems
- Cloud and enterprise data centers
Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI)
As a Materials Expert, Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI) has a strong portfolio of innovative technologies to support and collaborate with the industry, offering frontier-applied research on advanced materials as well as technology transfer for commercialization success.
NAMI, incorporated in 2006, is designated by the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong Government as a Research and Development Center for nanotechnology and advanced materials. NAMI undertakes and provides support for market-driven research in nanotechnology and advanced materials, and strives for commercialization of the technologies to benefit the industry and the society at large, as well as re-industrialization to promote the economic growth and sustainability of Hong Kong.
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