From submarines to geosynchronous earth orbit to groundbreaking industrial applications, Thermacore provides solutions for leading edge applications.

• Military Communications
  • Militarized Heat Exchangers

• Radar
  • THAAD - Raytheon's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) System is the upper tier of the Army's two-tier Theater Missile Defense Concept. The sophisticated electronics used in the THAAD System require a high performance and lightweight cooling solution capable of transferring a high heat load with only a small change in temperature. Thermacore's cold plate design uses heat pipes embedded in an aluminum plate to provide the necessary high-efficiency heat transfer in this space and weight constrained application. Heat pipe technology is the key component that efficiently removes the heat from the critical electronics. Using heat pipes, this cold plate has the weight of aluminum with an effective thermal conductivity more that four times that of copper. The cold plate is capable of operating in harsh environments, including high altitude, shock, vibration, and extreme temperatures and humidity.
  • DD(X)
  • Active Electronically Scanned Array

• Aircraft
  • F-16 Targeting Pod
  • Passive Anti-Icing
  • Integrated High Performance Turbine Energy Technology (IHPTET)
  • Leading Edge
  • Joint Strike Fighter
  • 787

• Shipboard
  • Bleed Air Cooler
  • Periscope Heat Pipe
  • Heat Exchangers

• Spacecraft
  • Stirling Orbiter Refrigeration/Freezer (SOR/F)
  • Loop Heat Pipe Flight Experiment
  • Timeband Cature Cell Experiment (TICCE)
  • Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (GIFTS)
  • Unfurlable Heat Pipe for Lunar Radiator
  • SP-100
  • Prometheus
  • Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO)

• Solar Power
  • Cummins / Department of Energy Heat Pipe Receiver for Stirling Engine
  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory Loop Heat Pipe

• Advanced Applications
  • Moving Gradient Furnace
  • Epitaxy Susceptor
  • Niobium Rocket Nozzle
  • Laminate Metal/Ceramic Composite
  • On-Chip Cooling and Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) Matching