Parker Hannifin : Pioneers Modular Cooling Pumps for Emerging Defense Markets

Jul 14,2014

Parker Pioneers Modular Cooling Pumps for Emerging Defense Markets

Parker is developing PAO cooling pumps for specialized electronic or sensor suites for low-production rate applications

FARNBOROUGH, ENGLAND, July 14, 2014 - Parker Aerospace, a business segment of Parker Hannifin Corporation, the global leader in motion and control technologies, is developing a family of PAO cooling pumps ideally suited for specialized electronic or sensor suites. Modular products will support low-production volumes that are common in domestic and international defense markets.

            The pumps will use 90 percent common parts, regardless of the coolant flow-rate requirement. The remaining 10 percent will be a module specific to the system requirement that determines coolant flow of 12 to 25 gallons per minute. The pump at the core of the system runs on 115-volt, 400-hertz electrical power common in multiple aerospace platforms. Recognizing that many sensor or electronics suites are produced in small numbers, maximizing common parts reduces both recurring and non-recurring costs and shortens development schedules. This new approach will be essentially an off-the-shelf cooling system to meet a variety of thermal management applications.

            Parker has incorporated a wet-motor design that utilizes the  PAO coolant to extract heat not only from the sensor or electronic suite, but the pump motor as well. This is especially important when the device is placed in an enclosed environment.

"The goal is to provide cooling solutions for varying flow requirements with minimal development costs for multiple aerospace thermal management applications," said Parker Aerospace Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division Director of Business Development Jim McShane. "We see a wider market for cooling systems where low production rates and short development schedules are the norm."

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About Parker Aerospace.  Parker Aerospace is a global leader in the research, design, manufacture, and service of flight control, hydraulic, fuel and inerting, fluid conveyance, thermal management, and engine systems and components for aerospace and other high-technology markets. Its product lines include primary and secondary flight control actuation, power generation and control components, thrust-reverser actuation systems, electrohydraulic servovalves, electric motor-driven hydraulic pumps, fuel pumps and valves, refueling, defueling, and aerial refueling equipment, fuel tank inerting systems; tank pressure and vent controls, level and flow control equipment; motor-operated valves and fuel equipment, lubrication oil reservoirs, lubrication and scavenge pumps, fuel measurement and management systems, thermal management products, cockpit instrumentation, lightning-safe products, pneumatic subsystems and components, water subsystems and components, fluid metering delivery and atomization devices, wheels, brakes, and fluid conveyance products such as hoses, tubes, disconnects, and fittings.  It is an operating segment of Parker Hannifin Corporation.

About Parker Hannifin.  With annual sales of $13 billion in fiscal year 2013, Parker Hannifin is the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of mobile, industrial, and aerospace markets. The company employs approximately 58,000 people in 49 countries around the world. Parker has increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 58 consecutive years, among the top five longest-running dividend-increase records in the S&P 500 index.http://www.parker.com, or its investor information web site at http://www.phstock.com.

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