Emerson’s Network Power division claims it has invented the world’s first adiabatic freecooling chiller, whose energy efficiency could save the average data center £40,000 a year.
It claimed the power used by data center cooling units could be cut by a third by using its newly pioneered thermal management techniques.
The Liebert AFC aims to maximise freecooling all year while offering 100% cooling availability under the conditions of power fluctuation, water shortages and external air temperature extremities.
The vendor has claimed its system achieves a partial power usage effectiveness (pPUE) of 1.08, which would be lower than any other chilled water system on the market.
In a typical central European 1.4 MW data centre running at full load, it could reduce the energy consumption of the chilling process by a third. In a typical data center of this size, this would mean a reduction of energy use from 963,000 kWh to 645,000 kWh per year, it claimed.
Based on an energy cost of 0.12 £/kW, this would equate to around £40,000 being knocked off the annual electricity bill of most data center operators.
The savings, according to Emerson, are created through its thermal management techniques.
Cloud computing and the rise of big data do not have to equate to big increases in the energy bill, said Kevin Brady, vice president of thermal management, at Emerson Network Power in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
“Our methods of adiabatic freecooling [will] address some of the evolving pressures around heat
management,” Brady said.