Advanced Thermal and Environmental Concepts, spun out of the University of Maryland, provides contract research & development in order to support ongoing technology development. The firm is particularly interested in the use of electrohydrodynamic (EHD) based approaches to develop and enhance thermal management or mass transport process technologies. ATEC delivers innovative, proprietary, thermal management solutions for a wide variety of industries, such as electronics, aerospace, and HVAC, that increasingly cannot be solved with standard "off the shelf" components. The firm works to develop industrially-relevant technologies and devices in the areas of heat transfer and thermal management that provide significant improvement in performance over current products. These thermal management components, which incorporate U.Maryland inventions as well as in-house technologies, are being transitioned to commercial companies.ATEC's core competency is advanced heat transfer techniques involving electric field manipulation of the fluid flow, advanced structures, and new materials.
