Information On Cold Plate Cooling; General Information - Siemens SINAMICS S120 Manual

12.10

Information on cold plate cooling

12.10.1

General information

Cold plate cooling is a cooling method that can be used for SINAMICS S120 power units in
booksize format. The flat aluminum cold plate (cold plate), which is located on the rear of the
device, acts as a thermal interface in cold plate cooling.
The cold plate cooling is especially suitable for the following machine concepts:
● Plants and systems with high degree of pollution in the vicinity of the machine (e.g. in the
textiles or timber industry).
– Reducing cabinet-internal thermal losses facilitates cooling within a sealed cabinet
● Plants and systems where liquid cooling is already being used in the process.
– The existing cooling circuit can be used to externally cool the power components with
There are 2 ways of configuring the cooling:
● Cold plate cooling with an external air heat sink
The components of the drive line-up are typically all screwed on to the cooling fins of an
air heat sink located outside the control cabinet.
● Cold plate cooling with an external liquid heat sink
The components of the drive line-up are typically all screwed on to a liquid heat sink
located outside the control cabinet.
Booksize Power Units
Manual, (GH2), 07/2016, 6SL3097-4AC00-0BP8
(IP54).
cold plate.
Cabinet design and EMC Booksize
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