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ZF Premieres AxTrax 2 Electric Axle Platform at ACT Expo
ZF unveiled its all-new AxTrax 2 electric axle platform at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Anaheim, California. The fully integrated and modular e-powertrain system...
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Gearing Dana for the EV Future
As Dana Inc. transitions further into electrified systems, it pays to have a Mechatronics engineer leading the company’s technology charge. Giulio Ornella, Dana’s VP of Global Engineering, has been...
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Thermal Management Techniques in Avionics Cooling
Innovation is carrying airborne technologies farther and higher than ever before, and avionic cooling practices have had to evolve to keep up.
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Mahle Advances 3D Printing Capabilities
Slashing the time to produce prototypes for complex components, from several months to a few days, explains in part why Mahle’s technology group decided to build a new facility for additive...
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German OEMs Flex 3D Manufacturing Muscle
A chief impediment for wider adoption of additive manufacturing long has been its potential for application in high-volume and high-throughput production. But continuing process and technique...
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Why Heat Exchanger Manufacturers Need to Rethink Design and Fabrication
Brazing isn't efficient, says an industry expert, and it's time for a change.
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Getting to the ‘Core’ of AV Thermal Management
The universal understanding of autonomous vehicle (AV) safety is one of the most critical keys to broad adoption of self-driving technology. For AVs, what is “safe enough?” This...
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New Ampere EV Motor Aims for Power, Torque Benchmarks
Consider an EV traction motor rated at 220 kW and weighing 10 kg (22 lb). Is it too good to be true? “We’ll find out within nine months when we build it,” said Ian Foley, managing...
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Bringing Turbine Power to Small Aircraft
A regenerative, high-temperature heat exchanger doubles the efficiency of low-power turbines.
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Leak Testing of Commercial-Vehicle AC Systems Critical as Move to HFO Refrigerants Looms
Passenger car and light-truck makers in the U.S. already have switched to more environmentally friendly hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) refrigerants from...
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Air Exchange System Shows Potential to Reduce Winter BEV Range Loss
Battery-electric vehicle (BEV) range loss from winter use of PTC (positive temperature coefficient) heating has become a source of major concern as the industry works to...
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Updating an SAE Standard—one Committee’s Contribution to the Clean Air Act
SAE standards automatically come up for review every five years, which forces the sponsors to review the documents to see if they require updating. In the...
Road Ready Electronics & Computers
2018 Los Angeles Auto Show: Hyundai Unveils the 2020 Palisade Midsize SUV as Its Flagship
The three-row 2020 Hyundai Palisade is the brand’s biggest SUV yet, providing more passenger room and more thermal-management performance to handle...
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Air- or Water-Cooling Resistors for EVs: The Case for H2O
The choice between water cooling and air cooling for internal-combustion engines was for decades a very real debate in the auto industry, with Volkswagen and Porsche for years...
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Parker Aerospace and GKN Aerospace to Develop Passive Cooling Solutions for Next-Generation Aircraft Engines
Parker Aerospace, a business group of Cleveland-based Parker Hannifin Corporation, has reached a collaborative technology...
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Studies Seek to Reduce Range Impact of EV Cabin Conditioning
If the battery-electric vehicle (BEV) is to enter the affordable mainstream, it has to overcome the challenge of 50-60% loss of range from the impact of cabin heating, ventilation...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Loop Thermosyphons
Two-phase cooling has been utilized in the electronics cooling industry for many decades, with possibly the most well-known adaptation being the heat pipe. Heat pipes are capillary-driven, two-phase devices that rely on the...
Articles Aerospace
Using System Simulation to Manage Increasing Thermal Loads on Aircraft Fuel Systems
Today’s modern military fighter jets are like “a flying thermos bottle” according to Steve Iden, AFRL Invent Program Manager [1]. Many engineers have been...
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Small Form Factor Embedded Systems
As sensor processing hardware like data converters, FPGAs and CPUs evolve to handle more channels with higher signal bandwidths, designers can develop powerful distributed signal acquisition and pre-processing...
Articles Aerospace
Making Laser Weapons a Reality
Directed energy weapons first took a step towards reality in the 1980s under President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), dubbed “Star Wars” by the media. But, the technology didn't really...
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Inner Secrets of the Toyota-Denso Heat Pump Revealed
The loss of winter driving range in electric vehicles equipped with conventional electric heating systems is well-documented—range being reduced by up to 60% and even more in severe...
Articles Defense
Cooling Your Embedded System: What Can Your Open Standard Architecture Handle?
Embedded computing systems for Mil/Aero applications are often conduction-cooled in an ATR or nonstandard chassis. However, there are many designs that require 19"...
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Communications Electronics Cooling Systems
Aspen Systems Marlborough, MA 508-281-5322www.apspensystems.com Aspen Systems are supplying Environmental Control Units (ECU’s) for critical communications electronics cooling for the Joint Light...
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Advanced Thermal Management Solutions
Now more than ever, devices with increasing power and smaller footprints are demanding a good stable cost effective thermal management solution. Fortunately many options are available today. However, for...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Thermoelectric Cooling
There are many places one can go to get an outline on the pros and cons of different methods for enclosure cooling. Although we will briefly touch on them here, this is really an in-depth article on how to choose a...
Articles Defense
Thermal Management of Laser Diodes
High-power laser diodes can generate a great deal of heat. Even for laser diodes operating with 70% or higher efficiency, a large amount of applied energy is converted to heat. Since the performance and...
Articles Weapons Systems
Submersion and Directed Flow Cooling Technology for Military Applications
As the US military shifts from boots on the ground to drones in the sky, there will be an increasing need for computing power on foreign soil, under the sea and in the...
News Manned Systems
Thermal Management for Fuel-Cell Systems Studied
Reducing the environmental impact of aircraft in terms of carbon dioxide, noise, and pollutant emissions is an important objective. Fuel-cell systems deliver electrical energy with high...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Thin Cavity Cooling of Electronic Circuitry
Anovel tested technology for cooling electronic circuitry is also useful in many other industries. The method is called “Thin Cavity Fluidic Heat Exchanger”(TCFHE). Technology details can be...
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