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US 11,153,992 B2Granted
Air and fluid cooling of a data center
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsTahir Cader, Wade D Vinson, Douglas Kent Garday, John P Franz
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Abstract
An apparatus is provided herein. The apparatus includes a sensor module and a control module. The sensor module to receive a measured environmental condition. The control module to use the measured environmental condition to determine a fluid temperature to cool a first set of components and determine an air temperature to cool a second set of components.
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A method to cool a modular data center comprising:
- obtaining an environmental condition using a sensing device, wherein the environmental condition includes an air temperature and a relative humidity;
- distributing a fluid at a fluid cooling temperature with a component-level fluid cooling device to remove a first portion of a rack heat load, the fluid cooling temperature based on the air temperature and the relative humidity;
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- circulating air at an air cooling temperature with an air cooling device to cool a second portion of the rack heat load, the air cooling temperature based on the air temperature and the relative humidity.
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A method to cool a modular data center comprising:
- obtaining an environmental condition using a sensing device, wherein the environmental condition includes an air temperature and a relative humidity;
- distributing a fluid at a fluid cooling temperature with a component-level fluid cooling device to remove a first portion of a rack heat load from a first set of components of the modular data center, the fluid cooling temperature based on the air temperature and the relative humidity;
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- circulating air at an air cooling temperature with an air cooling device to cool a second portion of the rack heat load from at least one of the first set of components and from a second set of components of the modular data center, the air cooling temperature based on the air temperature and the relative humidity, wherein the first set of components is distinct from the second set of components.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.