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Thermally Conducting Polymer Tubing

12/13/2006 7:56 PM

I am looking for a flexible polymer tubing that is a reasonable conductor of heat. Duty conditions:

  • Maximum temperature - 60 degrees Celsius;
  • Strongly ionic solution.

Hopefully nothing too exotic.

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Re: Thermally Conducting Polymer Tubing

12/14/2006 10:47 PM

I would try those guys that build the floor heating systems they use some kind of plastic tubing in the floors, seems to last forever.

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Re: Thermally Conducting Polymer Tubing

12/14/2006 11:10 PM

Thanks I'll give it a try.

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Re: Thermally Conducting Polymer Tubing

12/15/2006 5:36 AM

Try http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/default.asp

They have tubing and also online technical assistance

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Re: Thermally Conducting Polymer Tubing

12/18/2006 6:52 AM

What do you mean with "Thermally Conductive"?

Typical plastics hace a thermal conductivity between .04 and 0.5

Higher numbers are called thermal conductive polymers.

Stainless steel has a K value of opprox 16. Carbon steel is approx 55 W/mK

Aluminium goes up to 200 where copper reaches 400.

You want a polymer for the fluid and the thermal conductivity for a cooling/heatup application?

solution: use sandwich pipes, they have a polymer inner liner with metal outside wall.

The thermal conductive paste that is used in electronic applicaiton have a conductivity between 1 and 5. Their main efficiency comes from the removal of the air gaps between the faces.

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