It’s critical for manufacturers of temperature sensitive products to know what degree of risk their products will be exposed to once they leave their facility. It’s also just as important to know which of the 3 types of heat will pose the greatest degree of threat. Is it convention, conduction or radiant?
Understanding the 3 types of heat is easily understood when you consider a pot of water on a stove top. The gas flame that heats the pot is radiant heat. The molecules of water beginning to heat up and bounce around is convection heat, while the heat travelling down the handle toward your hand is conductive heat.
Now imagine the radiant heat from the sun on a shipping container or the back of a truck in the midday sun. The air inside is getting hotter due to the convective heat produced by the molecules in the air crashing into each other, which means that the goods inside the container are heating up through conductive heat. Each one different, but each capable of causing excursions in these types of products.
Protecting these products from radiant heat is the first step to ensuring they remain within their designated temperature range. Wilpak Group International produce innovative products to protect temperature sensitive goods for top tier pharmaceutical companies.