Background
A drone docking station is a device that allows drones to safely land and charge their batteries. These stations have become increasingly popular as drone technology advances and more people are using them for commercial and recreational purposes. While the power supply system and crucial electronics housed within the station generate continuous heat loads that can have a detrimental effect on battery performance. High temperatures particularly impact the lifespan and efficiency of the lithium-ion batteries used in drone docking stations.
Hence, an effective cooling system must protect the critical docking station and backup battery systems, to ensure a reliable operation. Presently, the two prevalent cooling methods are air cooling and liquid cooling, with air cooling being the more widely adopted approach.
Application Overview
Historically, bulky compressor-based air conditioners have been the norm for dissipating heat from electronics housed in drone mobile docking stations and telecom base stations. These air conditioners operate continuously throughout the year, resulting in significant energy consumption. Numerous electronic cabinets within docking stations are unnecessarily cooled by these costly compressor-based systems.
Standard A/C temperature control systems, often designed with vertical mounts, are frequently too cumbersome to fit within the enclosure, so the market required an alternative to mount on an exterior wall to regulate temperature to the entire space inside. Approached by clients who want to take advantage of MOIR’s micro refrigeration expert, MOIR has developed and customized the lineup of micro air conditioning units and Mini Water Chiller Units to meet the specific requirements. These mini cooling systems utilize its in-house manufactured miniature BLDC inverter compressors, providing a more compact, efficient, and reliable option to accurately cool the critical electronics and batteries in drone docking stations. Cooling at right temperature is necessary to extend the life of backup batteries and maintain peak performance.
The small air conditioner solves the UAV recycling cooling and charging heating problems and provides an ideal temperature environment inside the station. Thanks to its unique advantages, the mini air conditioner can be used for many demanding applications where space, efficiency, and reliability are crucial.
The mini air conditioner assemblies, which employ the mini rotary compressor, are compact, lightweight, highly efficient, and reliable units that can control the temperature in mobile base stations and drone docking stations. If you are in need of a minimal change for your infrastructure, MOIR mini air conditioner would be your best choice. Apart from this standard one, MOIR provides customization services as per your unique requirements.
Future Optimal Solutions
At present, the air cooling method dominates the market due to the rapid expansion of application fields like communication base stations, coupled with the relatively low power density of energy storage systems within these stations. Hence, a significant number of air cooling systems, originally designed for data center temperature control, are now being employed in this domain. Nevertheless, as technology advances and the demand for higher efficiency increases, liquid cooling approaches are poised to take the lead and will increase rapidly.
To meet the increasing growth of liquid cooling in the market, we’ve released a lineup of mini liquid cooling units. The advantages of these mini chillers are low energy consumption, precise temperature regulation, and close to the heat source. Also, it is more suitable for outdoor environments than air cooling. These compact water-cooled chillers can significantly reduce the overheating and power consumption of the battery pack or the docking station. Nowadays, these small liquid cooling units have been widely applied in battery pack cooling, electronics cooling, outdoor cabinets, etc. Furthermore, to follow the new European regulation, MOIR has successfully launched the new mini liquid cooling system with a natural R290 refrigerant configuration which is in low GPW and has no impact on the environment.
Benefits
The mini water chiller units offer great advantages over traditional air conditioning systems. With their innovative design, the liquid-cooled systems can reduce energy consumption by approximately 30%, resulting in an impressive 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Furthermore, they contribute to a 50% reduction in the size and weight of the drone docking stations, making them more portable and efficient. Beyond above, these small chillers operate with very low noise levels, ensuring a more peaceful environment. Additionally, they feature a heat recycling mechanism that allows the heat emitted by the base station to be reused in the heating system of other electronic components, further enhancing their environmental friendliness.
Total Costs
Most importantly, the mini liquid cooling systems offer you cost savings across the entire application. By adopting liquid cooling technology in drone docking stations, the mini chiller eliminates the need for fans, blowers radiators, and other associated hardware, leading to reduced expenses. Consequently, in terms of total cost, it will not increase costs instead actually lowers operational and maintenance expenses.
MOIR Service
MOIR provides the mini cooling series with a cooling capacity of up to 900 watts and a COP>3.0W/W. The cooling efficiency of these unit families is 3 to 5 times of the traditional thermoelectric cooling devices. Because of its compact size and simplified construction, it helps save users installation and maintenance costs, as well as the footprint in the drone mobile docking stations.
As a professional manufacturer and supplier and mobile and compact cooling sector, MOIR always stays ahead of the market trends and invests in up-to-date technologies to empower our customers with a competitive edge.
If you want to apply our unique, high efficiency, and reliable cooling unit or want to custom new design as per your unique requirement, contact us for an inquiry today.
