High-performance Two-phase Immersion Coolant for Thermal Management

Overview

NAMI’s next-gen immersion coolant slashes cooling costs while enhancing system stability.

  • High-performance Two-phase Immersion Coolant for Thermal Management 0
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
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) is founded in 2000 by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. As Hong Kong’s largest government-funded research and development centre, ASTRI is a key force and super connector driving innovation and technology advancement in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and the global innovation ecosystem. This role is strengthened through its merger with Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI).

Committed to bringing high impact research from lab to market, ASTRI advances interdisciplinary, market driven R&D that delivers practical innovations for industry and meaningful benefits for society.

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