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ROOM AIR CONDITIONERS
Variants available : DX , CHW , Dual type
Solutions from P&C for high-performance thermal management. This provides heat control in critical locations that is dependable, economical, and sustainable. Learn more about our range of data center cooling systems for more insights into our cooling technologies.
Ensuring Sustainable Performance
Power consumption and efficiency of data centres are significant, it is essential to keep them in good condition. Data centres are well known for their huge power usage. Therefore, it makes sense that continuous data centre activity leads to greater temperatures, which quickly destroy servers, storage devices, and related hardware. Discover how to optimize your data center’s efficiency.
All of this could result in longer downtime, decreased longevity, and damage to the costly and essential components.
Cost-Effective Management
P&C provides cutting-edge data centre cooling systems that address cost-effectively data centre management issues.
INROW COOLING
Variants available : DX & CHW type
Obtain effective and dependable humidity control and heat management solutions tailored to your unique business’s size, location, and objectives.
Cutting-Edge Precision Cooling
Our advanced cooling systems deliver precise temperature control, low operating costs, and expert knowledge. By centrally managing your infrastructure and targeting cold air directly to the load, we minimize hot/cold air mixing. Strategically positioned in-row cooling devices efficiently cool and condition air, increasing capacity and effectiveness while dispersing high heat loads quickly with shorter air travel distances. Experience a scalable cooling solution for your data center.
A specialised in-row cooling solution has the ability to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) more than a CRAC cooling system, and there is a huge demand for them. Your vital systems' operating temperature must not only fall within ideal ranges but also be consistent and dependable.
Performance
We’ll utilise it to assist you optimise whatever in-row cooling solution you’re using or planning to implement, whether it’s a dry cooler that successfully dissipates the heat from the inside water-cooled thermal management systems or a self-contained data centre cooling unit.
In Rack Cooling
Easy to install and maintain; designed to be seamlessly integrated into new and retrofit Micro Data Centers
Frees up valuable IT floor space by placing the IT cooling at the bottom of any IT rack
EcoStruxure™ Ready, enabling the global visibility of performance and status
Do you know when it’s time to modernize your UPS or cooling system?
CHILLERS
Our advanced chiller systems offer efficient cooling solutions for data centers, effectively managing temperature control and optimizing energy usage. With advanced features and precise cooling capabilities, our chillers ensure reliable and sustainable operation of your infrastructure.
Efficient Cooling Solutions
Experience optimal temperature control and energy efficiency with our cutting-edge cooling solutions, designed to enhance performance and reliability in various applications. Our efficient cooling systems provide a cost-effective and sustainable solution for maintaining ideal operating conditions in data centers, industrial facilities, and other critical environments.
Precision Cooling Solutions
With innovative features such as variable speed compressors and intelligent controls, our chillers offer precise temperature control, maintaining consistent cooling across varying loads.
Cost Effective
Our advanced chillers are designed to deliver exceptional cooling performance while optimizing energy consumption, helping you achieve significant cost savings. Explore our range of chillers for more detailed specifications and options.
Air-cooled Chillers with axial fans for outdoor installation for mission critical applications. Large air-cooled and free-cooling chillers with oil-free centrifugal compressors, Range 300Kw – 2000Kw.
Air-cooled chillers provide the most efficient solution for large data center environments and afford placement flexibility. All of Schneider Electric’s Aquaflair Chillers offer low noise impact through the use of large air side exchangers, controlling fan rotation, and compressor insulation and housing. Our advanced controls system constantly monitors set points to guarantee the unit always operates within operating limits and will signal any faults before breakdown occurs. These chillers support a wide range of applications and maximize the availability of Row and Room cooling products to provide a complete heat removal solution.
Extremely high efficiency with the best combination of the most technological compressors with flooded evaporator and an advanced control logic
Flexible in refrigerant choice ready for the future: R134a (GWP1430), R513A (GWP 631). R1234ze (GWP 7)
Global operating conditions, suitable for high and low outdoor temperature with extremely high water setpoint
Low noise operation with magnetic levitation compressors located in soundproofed enclosures
Low starting and operating currents since the embedded inverter regulation
Quick restart function to minimize unit restart time after a power failure
Reduced maintenance since no oil presence and easy accessibility to all components
All-in-one packaged unit easy to install and ready to start
CONTAINMENT SYSTEM
Benefits
- Modular strategy - Modular design of the mechanical and control systems allow for gradual build-up of the cooling infrastructure to match the cooling demand of the facility. This greatly reduces CAPEX expediture and provides deferred investment throughout the life of the facility.
- Flexibility - Support for varying aisle widths, rack heights, rack depths, and single rows. Supports hot and cold aisle containment
- Air Return System - Centralized hot air return system for room and external air handling systems minimize obstruction of lighting into the aisle and provide cable access from within the contained aisle.
- Safe Slide Doors - Emergency break away sliding door enables quick exit in the event of an emergency
- Scalable densities - Allows for higher densities to be achieved by integrating containment with room, row and rack cooling system architectures.
- Efficiency - Increases the capacity of the air conditioner by supplying a warmer return air temperature.
- Active Airflow Control - Monitors and actively adjust cooling unit airflow in containment systems, while providing visibility to effective cooling to critical IT equipment.
Hot Aisle
Cold Aisle
Impact of Hot and Cold Aisle Containment on Data Center Temperature and Efficiency
| Characteristic | CACS | HACS | Comment |
| Ability to set work environ- ment temperature to 24°C/75°F (standard indoor design temperature) | No | Yes | With HACS, cooling set points can be set higher while still maintaining a work environment temperature of 24°C/75°F and benefiting from economizer mode hours. Increasing CACS cooling set points results in uncomfortably high data center temperatures. This promotes a negative perception when someone walks into a hot data center. |
| Take advantage of potential economizer mode hours | No | Yes | The number of economizer mode hours with CACS is limited by the maximum work environment temperature in the hot aisle (the work environment) and by tempera- ture limitations of non-racked IT equipment when not placed in a dedicated room. |
| Acceptable temperature for non-racked equipment | No | Yes | With CACS, the uncontained data center area becomes hot because the cold aisles are contained. Perimeter IT equipment (ie., tape libraries) in the uncontained area should be evaluated for operation at elevated temperatures. Risk of overheating perimeter IT equipment increases with decreased cold-air leakage. |
| Ease of deployment with room cooling | Yes | No | CACS is preferred when retrofitting a data center with raised floor, room-level cooling with flooded return (draws its warm retum air from the room). A HACS without row-based cooling or dropped celling would require special retum ductwork. For further guidance on this topic, see White Paper 153, implementing Hot and Cold Air Containment in Existing Data Centers. |
| New data center designs | No | Yes | The cost to build a new data center with CACS or HACS is nearly identical. Specifying HACS for a new data center will improve the overall efficiency, work environment, and overall operating cost. |
Conclusion
Both hot-air and cold-air containment can improve the predictability and efficiency of traditional data center cooling systems. While both approaches minimize the mixing of hot and cold air, there are practical differences in implementation and operation that have significant consequences on work environment conditions, PUE, and economizer mode hours. The choice of hot-aisle containment over cold-aisle containment can save 43% in annual cooling system energy cost, corresponding to a 15% reduction in annualized PUE.
Prevention of hot and cold air mixing is a key to all efficient data center cooling strategies. Both HACS and CACS offer improved power density and efficiency when compared with traditional cooling approaches. A hot-aisle containment system (HACS) is a more efficient approach than a cold-aisle containment system (CACS) because it allows higher hot aisle temperatures and increased chilled water temperatures which results in increased economizer mode hours and significant electrical cost savings. Cooling set points can be set higher while still maintaining a comfortable temperature in the uncontained area of the data center.
LIQUID COOLING – PRECESION IMMERSION COOLING
Why liquid cooling?
System level challenges
- CPU/GPU/Acceler ator TDP (thermal design power) exceeding air cooling limits
- Latency issues driving ultra-dense layouts squeezing critical cooling volume
- Air cooled solutions budgeting up to 20% energy at server level
Room level challenges
- Rack power trends regularly exceeding 20kW in all market segments (~8-12kW capacity typical)
- Airflow limitations being exceeded at rack level
Energy efficiency initiatives
- Liquid cooling can save >90% data centre cooling power
- Liquid cooling can save >90% on IT E cooling power
Environmental benefits
- Reduce/eliminate wastewater needed for evaporative cooled solutions by ~85%-95%
- Heat recovery/reuse of >60% heat loss directly into the grid
