Cooling system for cooling electronic aircraft equipment, aircraft equipped with a cooling system for cooling electronic aircraft equipment and method for cooling electronic aircraft equipment
A cooling system for cooling electronic aircraft equipment comprises a primary cooling arrangement configured to provide basic cooling energy for cooling the electronic aircraft equipment and a supplemental cooling arrangement configured to provide supplemental cooling energy for cooling the electronic aircraft equipment. The supplemental cooling arrangement comprises a coolant supply system and a coolant distribution system. The coolant supply system is configured to supply a compressed coolant to the electronic aircraft equipment to be cooled, and the coolant distribution system is configured to selectively direct the compressed coolant supplied by the coolant supply system to at least one of a plurality of components of the electronic aircraft equipment.
