Glycol & your system
Using glycol for your chilled water system will have dramatic effects and understanding how painful it can be to your efficiency is a must. Why are we using glycol? In most applications the use of glycol is to lower the fluid (most often water) freezing point. The more glycol that is used, the lower the […]
Ice Storage Systems?
The ASHRAE technical committee Datacom book series makes mention of ice storage for consideration. While ice storage is useful if you have the up-and-downs that a normal office building has, it has much less application for a data center where load runs much more evenly throughout 24 hours. The amount of ice stored would amount […]
Rack & Cabinet Airflow Considerations
What should you be looking for in a rack or cabinet in your data center? Focusing on the important features will save you time and money in the years to come, so take the time to know what you have and where you might be headed. Although most data centers are supported by standard racks […]
Longevity of Geothermal
On rare occasion I run across a system that, although smaller in size, supports a mission critical facility and supporting spaces with geothermal. In one instance, open loop geothermal-sourced cooling was serving a smaller network operations center that had a large screen wall with a small data center behind it. The building had two central […]