In-Floor Cooling Solutions:
Eliminating By-pass
Air Using Virtual and Physical Strategies
The Value
of Aisle Level Containment
Many
existing data centers use vertical plume airflow panels that waste over 50%
of the air they supply. Selecting the proper containment strategy to
reduce by-pass
air is a crucial. Containment strategies
increase
cooling capacity
and efficiency by ensuring the supply air is funneled through the equipment.
Virtual
Aisle Containment
Directional Airflow Panels:
- DirectAire: 68% Open area
directional air flow panel- Ideal for creating a virtual containment system the steel DirectAire panel directs the airflow toward the server rack to significantly reduce bypass air.
DirectAire
- DirectAire Al: 60% Open area, all
aluminum directional airflow panel- allows the panel to provide similar
cooling capacities with a panel that is 40%
lighter.
- DirectPerf: Available in 25% and
32% open area and provides directional airflow to the rack- both improve energy efficiency and reduce bypass
air.
- Airflow Controls SmartAire MZ Damper Automatic
damper to regulate the airflow through a panel to maintain a desired inlet air
temperature- offers the most granular airflow control available in the data center.
- Opposed Blade Damper Single-Zone &
Dual-Zone- Offers manual airflow adjustment between 0-100%.
- Multi-Zone Damper- enables the airflow delivery
to be balanced based on the specific load in a 14U section of the rack. The damper can be
individually
adjusted for three zones within the rack
(top, middle and bottom) without
removing the air-
flow panel.
- PowerAire: PowerAire Quad fan- is equipped with 4
fans connected in parallel to
provide built in redundancy; this unit can cool
up to 18kW of supported IT load.
PowerAire
- Smart Aire: SmartAire T is
designed to provide IT technicians the ability to control the temperature of
the hot aisle when access to service equipment is required.
SmartAire MZ
Benefits of Virtual Containment
-First cost
savings over other containment strategies
-Comparable cooling capacity
to physical containment
-No fire suppression, lighting or service
distribution concerns associated with adding a roof.
Physical Aisle Containment
Containing the airflow of an entire aisle has been shown to improve capacity and energy efficiency
by reducing bypass airflow. Many
legacy airflow panels supply air in
a vertical plume requiring the use of
physical containment systems
to reduce bypass
airflow and improve capacity and efficiency.
Vertical Airflow Panels
GrateAire: High volume airflow
panels with high rolling loads for contained aisles
Perforated Panel: Standard airflow panels
for contained aisles
AirFlow Controls
Opposed Blade Damper: Offers manual adjustment between
0-100%
SmartAire P Damper: Automatic damper which regulates
airflow through the panels of a cold aisle to maintain a specific static
pressure.
SmartAire T Damper: Switch activated cooling
for conducting service work in contained hot aisles.
Benefits of Physical Containment
Significantly reduces bypass airflow
Customizable products and sizes for any retrofit
application
Can achieve 100% capture index at the server
IsoFlo Cabinets
Isolated Airflow Cabinet for Raised Floor Data Centers
Complete Flexibility
Tate's IsoFlo cabinet
can be installed almost anywhere in any data center environment. The full 42U of open
mountable equipment space provides enough
capacity to add the equipment needed. The automated
airflow
controls provide instant re-balancing for equipment changes and inlet air temperatures can be adjusted to
accommodate the widening operational ranges of newer equipment.
