Transportation - Parker Thermal Management Connectors
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Transportation

Parker’s thermal management research helps optimize the thermal performance of transportation, electric vehicles, trucks, bus and coaches, rails, marine, and off-road machinery. The transportation industry faces many challenges such as inefficient cabin climate control. This can dramatically increase fuel consumption and emissions and can pose a safety hazard due to ineffective windshield defrosting and defogging. We work with vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, and fleet partners to research energy-efficient solutions to climate control and thermal system challenges.

Mining & Off-Road Machinery

Thermal Management for Mining

Parker's thermal and power management technology offers comprehensive solutions for the complex challenges of heat management in today's mining and off-road vehicles. Optimizing thermal energy management must continue as an integral part of any vehicle development.

Parker Hannifin and Mining Magazine present this one-hour webinar discussing Thermal Management for the Next Generation of Mining Equipment. In the webinar, you'll learn about the connection between power sources and thermal management, thermal management options, safety elements to consider, how to design the right thermal management solution, and product highlights. Please enjoy listening to this special presentation hosted by Jax Jacobsen, Americas Editor of Mining Magazine along with John Hunt and Sterling McNeill from Parker Hannifin.

Watch The Webinar

Marine

Reliable cooling is a decisive factor for production, particularly in the marine industry. It is responsible for ensuring adequate temperatures in the turbine, the electronics racks and on the tool, or the machine, itself. The entire production and product life cycle of elements and machines are dependent on the efficiency of the cooling process and how it ensures ideal operating temperatures.

Railway

An important aspect of reducing the stress state on the rail deals with controlling the longitudinal forces to safe levels. This is important not only to reduce the number of buckled track incidents but also to reduce the number of rail defect failures. Hence the management of thermal management becomes an important maintenance function of both heavy haul freight and high-speed passenger operations.  

Trucks

Trucks move about 72% of the 18.3 billion tons of freight transported across the United States each year. Idling these vehicles to heat and cool cab/sleeper spaces improves driver comfort and safety but consumes large quantities of fuel and produces polluting emissions. Parker's heavy-duty vehicle thermal management research helps cut fleet operating costs, fuel consumption, and emissions by reducing the amount of energy required to control cab temperatures.

Bus & Coach

Thermal management systems in most bus and coach vehicles must be reliable enough to stand up to vibration, climate extremes, and physical wear and tear. Heat pipes provide reliable, durable performance, electrical isolation, and conditioning and electronic control system protection for buses around the globe, in all types of climates and weather. Parker also offers automotive system heat management solutions.

AUTOMOTIVE

Parker thermal management systems perform essential automotive functions, such as reducing thermal load, waste heat recovery, and heat transfer, among others. The global automotive standards have made thermal management systems a mandatory component.

Electric Vehicles

The 232 million light-duty vehicles in the United States account for more than 59% percent of all transportation-related energy use. Parker’s thermal management technologies reduce the amount of energy needed for climate control in both conventional and electric-drive vehicles.

Thermal Management Products for Transportation

Parflex Electronic Coolant Hose is a light weight thermoplastic hose designed for the pressure and temperature requirements of the battery mobility market.
Electronic Cooling Hose
While producing its latest generation of electric transportation, a leading bus manufacturer was not satisfied with the cost and complexity of its original battery coolant system. Discover how Parker engineered a system to meet the customer's needs while saving about 25% in material and labor costs.
ECH Case Study
EVERTHAW™ hose sleeve features unmatched freeze protection in temperatures as low as -70°F/-57°C.
EVERTHAW Heated Hose Sleeve
VDA style adapters are quickly becoming the standard in the e-mobility market. Parker’s Tube Fittings Division offers made-to-order metal VDA adapters to meet your unique system’s configuration needs.
VDA Style Adapters