Method and arrangement for air-conditioning a cold aisle
AssigneesWeiss Klimatechnik GmbH, Equinix (Emea) B.V.
InventorsMathias Köster, Peter Salomon, Chad McCarthy
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Abstract
A method and an arrangement for air-conditioning a cold aisle which is partially bounded by heat-generating devices and is arranged in a hot room, the hot room being separated from a second room by a boundary wall, and a region of the boundary wall is formed by a heat exchanger, such that air that is conveyed through the heat exchanger by the fan is supplied to the cold aisle. An opening with a fan is provided in the boundary wall. The cold aisle is connected to the boundary wall so that the opening is surrounded by the cold aisle.
Claims18
A method for air-conditioning a cold aisle that is at least partially delimited by rows of racks containing heat-generating devices, comprising:
- arranging the cold aisle in a hot room having a floor, the hot room being separated from an adjacent room by a single boundary wall extending perpendicular to the floor, the single boundary wall delineating the hot room from the adjacent room;
- arranging a heat exchanger in the single boundary wall, so that a region of the single boundary wall is a cooling wall;
- disposing a fan in an opening in the single boundary wall adjacent to the heat exchanger, so that an exhaust side of the fan is connected to the cold aisle;
- conveying air through the opening and into the cold aisle using the fan;
- wherein the opening is arranged on a longitudinal axis of the cold aisle;
- and wherein the cold aisle is connected to the single boundary wall in such a way that the opening is surrounded by the cold aisle.
An arrangement for air-conditioning a cold aisle delimited by rows of racks containing heat-generating devices, comprising:
- a hot room having a floor, and being fluidically connected via a fan to an adjacent room that is separated from the hot room by a single boundary wall extending perpendicular to the floor, and delineating the hot room from an adjacent room,
- wherein the fan is fluidically connected on an exhaust side of the fan to the cold aisle, and on an intake side of the fan to the hot room via a heat exchanger which forms a portion of the single boundary wall,
- wherein the fan is disposed in an opening in the single boundary wall, so that an exhaust side of the fan is connected to the cold aisle,
- and wherein a region of one end of the cold aisle, or a connection to said cold aisle, is delimited by a portion of the single boundary wall within which the opening extends.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.