Benefits of properly sealing a cold aisle containment system

Fourteenth Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm) Pub Date : 2014-05-27 DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2014.6892362

Yasin U. Makwana, Andrew R. Calder, S. Shrivastava

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Data centers are mission-critical facilities and the nerve center of successful business operations. Surging demand for processing power, work load virtualization and consolidation is increasing data center heat loads, making the thermal management of data centers challenging. Containing the air in a data center is an important energy savings strategy towards data center optimization. Most of the modern, energy efficient, data centers deploy some kind of containment system. This paper discusses test data for a Cold Aisle Containment (CAC) system and compares it with a standard Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle (HA/CA) configuration. The HA/CA configuration is shown to support a heat load of 14.6kW/cabinet while the CAC system was tested up to 25.2 kW/cabinet. In addition, the test data demonstrated the cooling energy savings with the CAC system. Furthermore, we quantified the importance and effectiveness of sealing accessories (i.e. grommets for cable openings and blanking panels) when deployed in a CAC environment.

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正确密封冷通道密封系统的好处

数据中心是关键任务设施，是成功业务运营的神经中枢。对处理能力、工作负载虚拟化和整合的需求激增，增加了数据中心的热负荷，使数据中心的热管理具有挑战性。在数据中心中包含空气是数据中心优化的重要节能策略。大多数现代、节能的数据中心都部署了某种密封系统。本文讨论了冷通道密封(CAC)系统的测试数据，并将其与标准的热通道/冷通道(HA/CA)配置进行了比较。HA/CA配置显示支持14.6kW/机柜的热负荷，而CAC系统测试的热负荷高达25.2 kW/机柜。此外，测试数据也证明了CAC系统的制冷节能效果。此外，我们量化了密封附件(即电缆开口和落料板的密封圈)在CAC环境中部署时的重要性和有效性。

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