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Iceotope sounds like a kids' superhero – but it's a UK server-cooler maker that just bagged £6.1m

PeterHopton

Re: Just wondering

Hi Frank,

Novec and similar materials are great convectors of heat (20-40 times better than water for natural convection), but are difficult to pumped (they have a high vapour pressure when warm). Iceotope harness the natural convective properties of the coolant in order to have it circulate at high speeds within the cartridge without any pumping at all.

Water is easy to pump and once the Novec has done its job the heat is spread evenly over a large surface area, so the water can operate effectively at sub atmospheric pressures.

Coolants like Novec are expensive, Iceotope minimise the coolant volume with the design.

Furthermore the decoupling of coolants allows for additional resilience and scalability of a system level in isolating any primary coolant loss from the rest of the system.