A new kind of heat exchange

FLEX™ re-engineers how heat moves between fluids, so low-cost, energy-dense materials can store cooling efficiently. It's the foundation for high-return thermal storage in data centers and HVAC.

How FLEX works

How FLEX moves heat

It's a battery for cooling. You store cooling, then use it when you need it. FLEX moves heat between two immiscible media (think oil and water). The flow of the working fluid into and out of the tank is engineered to either freeze or melt the storage material, charging or discharging the battery. That flow-driven heat transfer allows low-cost, energy-dense materials to maintain performance over time and through repeated cycling.

Blue working fluid and cyan storage material moving in separate, opposing paths.

Heat exchange

Two immiscible media move in separate paths

Heat-transfer fluid above salt-hydrate storage material inside a cylindrical tank.

Thermal storage

Flow agitates the material without emulsifying it

Power skid followed by three progressively larger, particle-filled storage modules.

Modular scale

Modules added in parallel

Energy-dense storage from low-cost materials

Uses low-cost salt hydrates

High energy density

Standard parts throughout, no specialty components

Modular architecture enables projects to scale at minimal marginal engineering cost.

Deployed and patented

FLEX is field-deployed in HVAC today. The data center model is designed and built from this foundation, with validated prototypes, paper studies, and in-house modeling for hyperscale and edge data center sites. The technology is protected by patents and know-how developed over years of iteration.

The engineering behind

FLEX

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