Patent ID: 11917744
Assignee: PERKINELMER SCIENTIFIC CANADA ULC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A method for cooling an inductively coupled plasma (ICP) instrument, the method comprising:
pumping coolant through a first conduit from a pump to the ICP instrument to heat the coolant;
flowing the heated coolant through a second conduit to a micro-channel heat exchanger to cool the coolant; and
flowing the cooled coolant through a third conduit to the pump,
wherein an outlet pressure of the pump exceeds a back pressure of the instrument such that a pressure of the heated coolant flowing through the second conduit to the micro-channel heat exchanger is less than or equal to 5 psi above atmospheric pressure, as measured at an inlet to the heat exchanger.