Data centres are the power house of today's global economy, without modern computing power applied to all facets of today's advanced economies, the quality of life would be very different.
However great the benefits, there is one unfortunate fact that today's data centres are highly inefficient, in their use of energy and their subsequent effect on the global climate.
ColdLogik replaces the traditional approach to data centre cooling, allowing loads of up to 45kW per cabinet with the added benefit of removing real estate problems inherent with hot aisle cold aisle and aisle containment designs.
The waste heat generated by equipment within the cabinet is removed at source by water cooling, without the risk of leakage in the data centre by utilising the leak prevention system.
ColdLogik allows cooling water temperatures to rise from the traditional 6ºC to between 14ºC & 21ºC; reducing chiller size and energy costs and increasing the availability of energy efficient 'free cooling'.
The ColdLogik Management System 'CMS' allows the doors to operate individually or as a system to maintain the room at the correct temperature even with external heat loads and eliminates the risk of condensation.
CL20 Rear Coolers are fitted to the back of an enclosure typically being IEC 297 3 and EIA STD 310 compliant. The Coolers have been designed to remove heat generated by the active equipment directly at source thus preventing hot exhaust air entering into the room, ensuring optimum thermal and energy performance.
Ambient air is pulled into the cabinet via the active equipment fans. The hot exhaust air produced by the active equipment then passes over a heat exchanger matrix either by its own velocity or pulled through via EC centrifugal fans mounted within the door; heat is then transferred and rejected to coolant. The resulting chilled air then passes back into the room at the predetermined room ambient temperature.
The CL20 Rear Cooler is available in both passive and active models, with the passive version relying solely upon the active equipment fans producing enough air volume to, in effect 'self cool'.
The CL20 Rear Cooler has a number of applications and fit out scenarios such as being sited within an existing data centre, working in harmony with the incumbent computer room air-conditioning, providing high density cooling, a reduction in energy consumption and the removal of hot spot problems.
To achieve this the Coolers can either be retrofitted to existing 'OEM' cabinets using an interface frame or fitted directly to a ColdLogik compliant USpace 6210 cabinet.
However to gain the optimum energy performance from a ColdLogik solution the CL20 Rear Cooler should be deployed as a single source solution i.e. the Coolers should be used to control the entire computer room/data centre without the need of any additional air-conditioning products, including retrofit scenarios.
