Lytron Catalog
Lytron Catalog
Lytron is a global leader in liquid cooling products for OEMs, specializing in cost-effective thermal solutions. With over 50 years of experience, they serve industries such as medical, semiconductor, military, aerospace, and data centers with products like cooling systems, cold plates, and heat exchangers.
Lytron focuses on innovative design and manufacturing excellence, using state-of-the-art factories and lean manufacturing principles. Key processes like machining, brazing, and welding are performed in-house to ensure quality and flexibility.
Lytron offers custom and standard cooling systems, including chillers and liquid-to-liquid systems. Custom systems are tailored to specific needs, with capabilities like temperatures from -85°C to 200°C and cooling capacities up to 300 kW. Standard systems include Kodiak® chillers and LCS™ systems.
The engineering team collaborates with customers to optimize designs using advanced software for thermal modeling and analysis, ensuring high-performance solutions. Their concurrent engineering philosophy integrates design and manufacturability.
Lytron maintains rigorous quality standards, including ISO 9001 certification. They conduct extensive testing to validate designs and ensure reliability, with a focus on supplier evaluation and risk management.
Lytron's worldwide service network supports customer equipment with service centers in North America, Europe, and Asia, offering 24/7 troubleshooting assistance.
Lytron provides custom solutions like recirculating chillers with RS232 communications and custom condenser designs, and liquid-to-liquid systems for precise temperature control. Customizations include dual voltage and specialized pumps.
LCS are ideal for significant heat removal and precise temperature control, offering energy savings over air cooling with features like dual cooling loops and Ethernet communications.
Also known as Modular Cooling Systems (MCS), these are cost-effective for applications not requiring tight temperature control, featuring a heat exchanger, fan, pump, reservoir, and controller.
Standard systems include compressor-based chillers and ambient cooling systems, with the Kodiak series offering precise temperature control for various applications.
Lytron provides extensive service and support, including installation, maintenance, and training programs, with service centers in the USA and 18 other countries.
The document includes specifications and performance graphs for various models, highlighting cooling capacities and temperature stability.
Detailed specifications for cooling systems like the RC series chillers and LCS are provided, outlining part number configuration based on model and options.
Controller packages range from basic digital displays to advanced systems with RS232 and Ethernet capabilities, offering features like low flow shut-off and auto-restart.
Customization options include external flow valves and pressure relief valves, with some options standard and others based on specific configurations.
MCS is a cost-effective alternative to refrigerated chillers, featuring a high-performance heat exchanger and various pump options.
Lytron offers custom-engineered solutions for specific needs, such as integrating cooling systems into existing machinery.
Lytron offers custom and standard cold plates for high-performance cooling, with technologies like vacuum-brazed and Friction Stir Welded cold plates.
Custom cold plates are designed for optimal thermal performance, with options like tubed and flat tube cold plates for different watt densities.
These chassis are custom-designed for efficient heat transfer in high-performance applications.
Assemblies integrate cold plates with components like heat exchangers and pumps, reducing costs and speeding up time to market.
Lytron offers a range of heat exchangers for various industries, with customization options and subassemblies available.
Custom heat exchangers are designed for high-performance applications, with advanced thermal analysis and in-house testing.
Technologies include plate-fin, flat tube, and tube-fin heat exchangers, each offering unique benefits.
The document provides an overview of thermal engineering principles, focusing on heat transfer mechanisms like conduction and convection.
Explains the relationship between heat flow, thermal conductivity, and resistance, emphasizing reducing resistance for better performance.
Describes convection as a more efficient heat transfer method than conduction, with the significance of the film coefficient discussed.
Performance is characterized by convection from heated fluid, conduction through materials, and convection to cooling fluid.
Discusses performance limits of heat exchangers and how they affect efficiency.
Describes boundary layers as affecting heat transfer, with increased fluid velocity reducing thickness and enhancing efficiency.
Provides a table of material properties and conversion factors for various units.
Lytron offers tools and support for selecting thermal products, with contact information for global offices and distributors.
Catalog excerpts
Innovative Design & Manufacturing Excellence CHILLERS & COOLING SYSTEMS COLD PLATES HEAT EXCHANGERS
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Thank you Thank you for choosing Lytron. We're proud to be the premier supplier of liquid cooling products to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) around the world. Partnering with our customers, we develop cost-effective thermal solutions that range from single components, to value-added subassemblies, to fully customized cooling systems for the most demanding applications. During the last 15 years, Lytron has enjoyed significant growth. I believe this growth is a testament to our ability to deliver the highest quality systems and components at the best value. Our goal is to exceed your expectations...
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Company Overview Page 4 Custom Cooling Systems Page 8 Standard Cooling Systems Page 13 Custom Cold Plates Page 30 Standard Cold Plates Page 35 Custom Heat Exchangers Page 42 Standard Heat Exchangers Page 47 Lytron offers all the thermal components in a liquid cooling loop. By performance-matching individual components, we provide the most cost-effective and innovative solution. Technical Reference Page 62
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Company Overview Lytron Total Thermal Solutions™ We’re liquid cooling experts with the experience and ingenuity to solve your most demanding thermal challenges To meet all of your requirements, Lytron harnesses more than 50 years of liquid cooling knowledge, an experienced engineering team, quality manufacturing, and strong customer service to deliver high performance, reliable, and costeffective thermal solutions. Our product range encompasses all the thermal components in a liquid cooling loop, including cooling systems, cold plates, and heat exchangers. This understanding of the complete thermal...
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Total Thermal Solutions™ Lytron Vertically Integrated Manufacturing for Quality and Reliability Lytron’s 115,000 ft2 (10,700 m2) manufacturing facility in Woburn, MA, 70,000 ft2 (6,500 m2) manufacturing facility in Ossipee, NH, and 10,000 ft2 (930 m2) manufacturing facility in Changzhou, China are designed to be flexible and agile for maximum throughput of custom cooling systems and components. Our lean manufacturing principles, vertical integration, and cellular organizational structure make this possible. Company Overview Manufacturing engineers work closely with thermal engineers early in...
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Company Overview Lytron Total Thermal Solutions™ In addition to ISO 9001: 2008 certification, Lytron’s quality program conforms to military inspection standard MIL-I-45208A. Lytron maintains a welding program with operators certified in accordance with Navsea S9074-AQ-GIB-010/248, SAE-AMS-STD-1595, and AWS D17.1. Vacuum furnace and torch brazing processes are performed in full compliance with ANSI/AWS C3.7. In our engineering laboratory we can test any cooling system or component that we manufacture in order to validate 3 designs or test finished product. Our well-equipped, in-house test facility...
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Contents: Custom cooling systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Standard cooling systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Kodiak® recirculating chillers. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 LCS™ liquid-to-liquid cooling systems . . . . . . 20 MCS™ modular cooling systems . . . . . . . . . . 24 Selecting a cooling system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Outsourcing your cooling loop to a company that builds thousands of cooling systems per year guarantees a quality product and enables you to focus your engineering efforts on your...
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Custom Cooling Systems Custom Cooling Systems Custom Chillers and Cooling Systems for Maximum Uptime Lytron specializes in the design and manufacture of custom chillers, liquid-to-liquid cooling systems, and liquid-to-air cooling systems for semiconductor equipment, medical equipment, lasers, wind turbines, trains, and other mission critical applications. We’re able to meet your most challenging thermal and mechanical specifications. Our systems engineering team works with our cooling system and heat exchanger technologies to arrive at the optimum solution for your application. We can custom...
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Cooling Systems Custom Recirculating Chillers Custom Cooling Systems Recirculating chillers can provide precise temperature control and cooling below ambient temperature. They can be designed as stand-alone systems or designed for integration within a larger system. With extensive experience designing chillers for front-end and back-end semiconductor equipment, medical equipment, lasers, and more, Lytron can meet all of your chiller requirements. Recirculating chiller compatible with dielectric fluid features a custom turbine pump to support high supply pressure applications, 15-pin interlock,...
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Custom Cooling Systems Custom Cooling Systems Liquid-to-Liquid Cooling Systems When a large amount of heat needs to be removed and chilled facility water is available, a Liquid-to-Liquid Cooling System (LCS) may be the solution. An LCS, also known as a water-to-water heat exchanger, can reduce energy consumption and save a significant amount of money over air cooling. LCSs offer precise temperature control of process water (±0.5°C) and transfer the waste heat to facility water. Skinless, 25kW LCS pump stand designed to cool four independent heat sources and be integrated into larger equipment...
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Cooling Systems Custom Liquid-to-Air Cooling Systems Built-to-specification MCS for a medical equipment application, with two standard Lytron heat exchangers and a stainless steel centrifugal pump Custom Cooling Systems A liquid-to-air cooling system, also known as an ambient cooling system or Modular Cooling System (MCS), provides cost-effective cooling for applications that don’t require a recirculating chiller, tight temperature control, or cooling below ambient temperature. An MCS consists of a heat exchanger, a fan, a pump, a reservoir, and a controller. MCSs can be customized in numerous...
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Cooling System Section22 Pages
Heat Exchanger Section21 Pages
Cold Plate Section12 Pages
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Lytron Cooling Systems26 Pages
Lytron Cold Plates18 Pages
Lytron Heat Exchangers38 Pages
- Chiller
- Liquid recirculation chiller
- Air chiller
- Water recirculation chiller
- Liquid/liquid heat exchanger
- Tubular heat exchanger
- Plate heat exchanger
- Stainless steel heat exchanger
- Gas/liquid heat exchanger
- Oil cooling system
- Copper heat exchanger
- Brazed plate heat exchanger
- Custom-made heat exchanger
- Mobile cooling system
- Aluminum heat exchanger
- Corrosion-resistant heat exchanger
- Custom-made cooling system
- Air/oil heat exchanger