These folks needed to cool a thick fluid that ends up being gaskets when robotically dispensed. A custom version of our AHP-1200CP fit the bill perfectly. Now the product is dispensed consistently because of the temperature control provided by thermoelectrics.
A branch of the US military had an overheating problem with a high-tech radio inside the wing of a fighter aircraft. TECA developed a custom, high-performance cold plate that withstand the shock, vibration, and G forces created by one of the most technically advanced aircraft.
In order to assure maximum strength with minimum weight, TECA’s Advanced Machining Center machines the finned heat sinks for each cooler from a single blocks of material
At a prominent U.S. university, neuroscience research team choose TECA’s economical AHP-270CP Cold Plate.
The customer reports: “We cool a fly to 8 deg Celsius, and also use vacuum to attach it to the device during a brain dissection procedure. Essentially, the cooling is anesthetizing the fly, making it possible to attach the fly to the dissecting chamber in a very precise manner, using a manipulator (also in the picture).” The AHP-270CP is a great solution because it is small, inexpensive and yet offers reliable and effective cooling on the bench top.
We used TECA’s AHP-1200CAS three stage cascaded thermoelectric cold plate system to facilitate dissection of frozen human postmortem brain slices for extraction of protein for Proteomics research. Because we were trying to select specific regions without damaging the rest of each small specimen, it was important for us to maintain the integrity of the specimen during dissection.
Working in a lab at normal room temperature, we found that a constant temperature of -18 °C was ideal for this work (-20 °C was too cold, and warmer than -18 °C made the tissue start to melt). It would have been impossible to maintain such a precise temperature outside of a Cryostat without the cold table. It was immensely easier to perform the dissection on the cold table, and of course also much easier to wipe down the cold table than to clean a Cryostat.
The beverage cooler application challenge was to keep concentrated beverage container located next to a hot water tank cool in a high volume OEM application. TECA has the flexibility and resources to manufacture custom OEM thermoelectric cooler (peltier coolers) assemblies intended for use as part of a customer machine, apparatus, or system. This OEM assembly is made by TECA in production runs in the thousands. It is not ours, so to protect the privacy and identity of our customers we can’t give too many details here.
This assembly is part of a beverage service product which is shipped worldwide by a well known consumer products company. TECA furnishes the cooling “engine” which refrigerates the beverage product to be dispensed, and the OEM builds finished machinery in their own plants.