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Evaporative Cooling Anaysis for Data Modules in Two Diverse Climates
One of the common concerns expressed about the use of evaporative cooling for data centers, server rooms, telecom facilities, or other facilities housing heat producing electronics is the ability of evaporative cooling to achieve the target inlet conditions for the electronics.
These two psychrometric charts show the results of an actual analysis in two distinctly different climates. The target server inlet temperatures were between 65 and 85 degrees F and between 20% and 80% RH. The mechanical system criteria mandated that direct evaporative cooling be used.
The proposed mechanical system consisted of a direct evaporative cooling system with 12" cellulose media, a steam humidifier, DDC controls, and a hot aisle/outside air mixing section. The controls would be configured to modulate the outside air dampers, hot aisle dampers, evap media water flow, and the humidifier to maintain the target conditions.
Server Inlet Temperatures from Evaporative Cooling System in Pacific Northwest US |
Server Inlet Temperatures from Evaporative Cooling System in Southeastern US |
As you can see from the charts the proposed system would easily achieve the desired results. In fact, it was found that outside air cooling could achieve the targets during roughly 15% of the year, direct evaporative cooling could achieve the results during roughly 60% of the year, and remaining hours of the year when the air was too cold to properly operate the evaporative cooling without fear of freezing a combination of hot aisle and outside air supplemented with the humidifier would hit the target. The only excursions of temperature over the maximum target of 85 degrees would occur for no more than 5 hours a year based on the NOAA TMY2 weather history.
While not every location would achieve these results the diversity of climate for these two studies imply that direct evaporative cooling, with creative use of mixing and controls, will work in many more climates than most people expect. To further expand the capabilities of evaporative cooling an indirect evaporative cooling element could be provided to produce even broader temperature control. Although it was not analyzed for this case we would expect that adding an indirect evaporative cooling element to these systems would have eliminated the few hours of excursion above the maximum dry bulb temperature.
As a means to dramatically reduce energy consumption for these data modules the evaporative cooling solutions would prove to be extremely effective. Since evaporative cooling systems are also relatively simple mechanical systems with no refrigerants maintenance of the systems does not require licensed refrigeration technicians and there are very few elements that could fail...increasing uptime and providing much faster recovery time should a repair be necessary.