Beyond the Cold Chain: Ten Places You Didn't Expect to Find Phase Change Coolants
Beyond the Cold Chain: Ten Places You Didn't Expect to Find Phase Change CoolantsAsk most people what a phase change material is for and you will get roughly the same answer: keeping vaccine boxes and seafood shipments cold on the way to their destination. It is a reasonable impression, and it i···
Glacier Coolant Expands Phase Change Storage Portfolio with -32°C to 115°C Range Coverage
Glacier Coolant Expands Phase Change Storage Portfolio with -32°C to 115°C Range CoverageGlacier Coolant, a global supplier of cooling media and thermal energy storage materials, announced today that it has completed a major expansion of its phase change material product line, achieving continuous···
Dry Ice vs. Reusable Coolants: Why Forward-Thinking Cold Chains Are Making the Switch
Dry Ice vs. Reusable Coolants: Why Forward-Thinking Cold Chains Are Making the SwitchAsk anyone who's run a long-haul cold chain shipment and they'll have a dry ice story. The logistics manager who calculated consumption rates for a pharmaceutical payload, loaded accordingly, and watched the···
How Phase Change Materials Are Transforming Data Center Cooling in 2026
How Phase Change Materials Are Transforming Data Center Cooling in 2026Every server rack humming away in a data center generates heat. A single high-density rack today can push past 30 kilowatts of thermal output, and that number climbs as AI accelerators and GPUs pack into tighter spaces. Tradition···
Industrial Safety with Secondary Refrigerants: Flammable vs Non-Flammable Heat Transfer Fluids
Industrial Safety with Secondary Refrigerants: Flammable vs Non-Flammable Heat Transfer FluidsAbstractThis document examines safety hazards associated with secondary refrigerant selection in industrial cooling systems. Five real incident cases from 2025 are analyzed: methanol-based coolant with a fl···
Phase Change Materials: The Next Frontier in Cold and Heat Storage
Phase Change Materials: The Next Frontier in Cold and Heat StorageHere's a number that stuck with me: 334. That's how many kilojoules it takes to melt one kilogram of ice. Not to raise its temperature — just to melt it. The phase change. Solid to liquid, at exactly 0°C, absorbing 334 kJ/kg···
Switching Secondary Refrigerants: A Hands-On Replacement Guide
Switching Secondary Refrigerants: A Hands-On Replacement GuideGlacier Coolant · Engineering Team · 2025I've been in plants where the glycol smells like burnt sugar and the pipe threads weep rust-colored drips onto the floor. I've walked into compressor rooms where the maintenance log shows···
When Cooling Fails: A Diagnostic Manual for Secondary Refrigerant Systems
When Cooling Fails: A Diagnostic Manual for Secondary Refrigerant SystemsSix field cases. Six diagnostic paths. What to do when your coolant isn't cooling.Glacier Coolant Technical SupportDecember 2025Applicable to all LM-series secondary refrigerantsLet's get one thing straight right at the···
Corrosion Prevention in Secondary Refrigerant Systems: The Shift from Reactive to Predictive
Corrosion Prevention in Secondary Refrigerant Systems: The Shift from Reactive to PredictiveFor as long as industrial cooling systems have existed, corrosion has been the enemy you can't see coming. It happens inside pipes, inside heat exchangers, inside reactor jackets — places you can't i···
Water-Free Coolants: How to Pick the Right One Without Getting Burned
Water-Free Coolants: How to Pick the Right One Without Getting BurnedLet's get one thing straight before we go anywhere: if your process runs above -20°C and you don't have any special constraints, you probably don't need a water-free coolant. Water-based secondary refrigerants like LM-···