hey there guys Paul here from the engineering mindset calm in this video
we're going to be looking at data center HVAC we will focus on the cooling
systems used we'll compare how the different strategies work and how to
improve the efficiency especially with a new growing trend of using computational
fluid dynamics or CFD software and we'll also run some simulations to show just
how powerful this is data centers are rooms of computer servers which provide
networking and internet-based services they range in size from a small single
room serving a single organization and they scale all the way up to enormous
Internet giant's such as Google and Facebook more and more data centers are
open each year as we use and increasingly rely on the Internet and
remote services the store access and stream our data with this growing trend
is important that the building's run as efficiently as possible as the data
centers are operational 24/7 they can consume vast amounts of electricity and
as this electricity is used the power of the servers and process all the data it
generates a lot of heat this heat needs to be removed otherwise the electrical
components will overheat and fail or even catch fire the energy consumption
for a typical data center will be split of around 50 percent being used by the
IT equipment 35 percent on coding and HVAC 10 percent on the electrical
infrastructure and support and around five percent on lighting the electrical
demand for data centers really does vary from just a few kilowatts up into the
megawatts depending on the size and the location so we're going to look at a few
examples of data centers and their air-conditioning systems as well as the
efficiency improvements that can be made the first part will briefly cover is the
non data whole areas these are the areas where staff are normally located the
security guards the engineers and technicians etc and these cover the
areas of the offices the toilets the workshop and rest areas these areas will
be served by a separate mechanical ventilation system and will use either
an air handling unit or a rooftop unit to distribute conditioned air to suit
the thermal comfort needs of the humans they might also use a separate split
unit heat pump of a RF system for temperature control in these areas I
won't go into too much detail in this segment as we've covered these in our
previous videos on chillers I hate use are to use we also have videos on vrf
heat pumps and split if you want to learn more on these links
are in the video description below coming over to the server room one of
the most common methods currently used is to place the server racks onto a
raised floor and then use computer room air conditioners or crack units to
distribute the conditioned air to the server racks the crack units have heat
exchanges inside which are connected to refrigeration units or chilled water
systems to remove the heat from the server racks some can also humidifier or
dehumidifier the air that's very important in order to control the static
electricity in the air they have filters inside to remove dust
from the room as well as a fan to circulate and distribute the air for
extra efficiency the crack unit should use energy-efficient filters EC or
electronically controlled fans and pressure sensors in the floor void to
precisely control the air supply rate placing temperature sensors on the
intake grilles of a server rack is often recommended to control the supply
temperature up from the crack units as this matches the actual intake the
conditioned air will be forced by a fan in the crack unit into the void under
the floor and the small holes of grilles in the floor tiles will allow the air to
leave the void in strategic places this air will collect the heat and rise up
towards the ceiling the crack units then suck this warm air back into the unit to
be reconditioned in the early days the server racks were positioned facing
different ways and engineers soon realized this was very inefficient
because the fresh cold air was just mixing with the warm discharged air of
the servers and this meant that the server's were receiving different air
temperatures some hot some cold and this led to higher energy consumption as well
as a high failure rate of the server's to combat this the servers were
positioned so that all the server racks were facing the same way this was a
slight improved strategy but quite often some of the discharge air was being
pulled into the intake of the server exiting behind it which led to mixing
and an increased air temperature the next strategy used which is still very
common today is the use of hot and cold aisles this is a great improvement on
the previous designs because it separates the fresh cold air stream from
the hot discharge air the cold air rises out from the floor grills and is pulled
through the servers all the hot discharged air collects into the hot
aisle and rises up towards the ceiling what is then pulled back into the crack
units this means the server's should receive
only fresh cold air and the crack units received the hot discharge air this
increases the temperature differential across the crack units heat exchanger
and that will improve the efficiency of the machine this is not perfect however
because there will still be some mixing of a hot and cold air streams cutouts on
the floor can result in air leaks this means that the cold air can leak
straight into the hot aisle floor grills which are too close to the crack units
result in air recirculating straight back to the crack unit and will mix with
the returned Airstream gaps between the servers can result in air recirculating
around inside the south rack this can easily be solved though by installing
blanking plates if more cold air is supplied than needed it will flow over
the units and mix with a discharge line if insufficient cold air is supplied
then warmth discharge will be pulled over the top and around the side of the
server and into the cold air and will mix with the stream we're going to look
at some CFD simulation examples shortly of this occurring a much improved design
and one it is very popular calorie for both new and existing date centers is to
use a physical barrier to separate the two air streams there are a couple of
ways to do this we can use a barrier around the server rack and then contain
either the hot air or the cold air cold air containment is a very popular choice
for existing data centers that's because it is easy and cheap to implement which
means that payback is quick the cold air feels a cold aisle and then the hot
discharge fills the rest of the room with a crack units pulling this in for
reconditioning however it does also mean that any equipment located outside the
cold zone will only receive hot air the other containment strategy in use is the
hot aisle containment this is best suited to new builds as it cost more to
install in this strategy the cold air fills the room and the hot discharged
air is pushed into another void within the ceiling the intake for the crack
unit is also ducked into the ceiling to pull this hot air out for reconditioning
the hot aisle containment provides superior performance and also allows a
slight buffer for cooling should the power or cooling system fail we can
actually compare the performance of different server room setups quickly and
easily using CFD or computational fluid dynamics these simulations on screen
were generated using a revolutionary cloud-based CFD and FAA engineering
platform by since Cal who have kindly sponsored this video you can access this
software free of charge in the links the video description below and there
are for a number of different account types depending on your level it's not
just limited to data center design it's also used for HVAC AEC electronics
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just a quick browse on their website and you can find thousands of designs for
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normally this kind of software is very expensive and you would also need a
powerful computer to run it Sims cour whoever can all be done from the
internet browser and as their cloud base their servers do all the work and we can
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account by following the links in the video description below ok so the first
design we've used a standard hot I'll configuration the arrows indicate the
direction of flow and the colors indicate the velocity you can clearly
see there's a huge amount of recirculation occurring between the
hours and I've highlighted these in the boxes the second design uses partial hot
oil containment with the third hot oil at the end being uncontained you can see
the first hot oil has a very good profile and no recirculation is
occurring the second oil however there is some recirculation occurring towards
the end of the row so some steps like blanking plates need to be installed
here the third hot oil has some major recirculation occurring and that's
because there is no physical wall to separate the hot and cold air streams if
we then run a simulation for thermal analysis of the designs we can compare
the two designs and show the resulting temperature distribution at different
levels the simulation starts at floor level and moves up to the top of the
racks from the comparison we can clearly observe that at the lower levels the
second design has a much cooler cold aisle as compared to the first design
as we move to the upper levels the air temperatures start to mix but the second
design still maintains much cooler levels well below 28 degrees Celsius or
82 degrees Fahrenheit whereas the first design has temperatures above 29 degrees
Celsius or 84 degrees Fahrenheit the recommended ranges from standards
require that the inlet air temperature be within 18 to 27 degrees Celsius or 64
to 80 degrees Fahrenheit at the very top levels the temperature for the first
design are now in the hotter range of 40-plus degrees Celsius or 104 degrees
Fahrenheit or the second design the partial containment one has only a
maximum of 30 degrees Celsius or 86 degrees Fahrenheit thus the second
design performs much better in this case and further design improvements such as
full hot aisle or cold aisle containment can be studied using cloud-based CFD to
improved a center cooling as well as optimizing energy consumption of both
the server equipment and cooling units another type of data center design which
is becoming increasingly popular is free and evaporative cooling it can be
retrofitted in some existing designs but it's especially popular with large new
purpose-built data centers like Facebook and Google some of these new designs do
not use any refrigeration equipment for cooling this can only be done in some
regions of the world where ambient conditions are right but it allows
datacenters to cool their servers without any refrigeration plant the
ambient air is sucked into the building through some louvers and is then heavily
filtered and cooled and humidified by evaporative coolers and then forced into
the data hauled into a hot oil configuration the exhaust of the hot air
is then connected to another set of fans which pulls the hot air out and
discharges this off into the atmosphere some other cooling strategies which are
slightly less common are the use of doubted systems with heat wheels or heat
exchangers fitted these are our thermal energy to be transferred from one stream
to another without introducing fresh air into the building the fresh air can
contain dust moisture and salt particles which deteriorate the service electrical
components to provide cooling to the crack units you usually find a chilled
water system using a traditional chiller depending on the location some systems
are able to turn off the tears and use just the evaporative cooling capacity of
cooling towers for normal operation then use the chillers as their backup if the
cooling towers are unable to reach the setpoint some crack units contain their
own small individual refrigeration system which ever uses a remote dry air
cooler or they dump their heat into a condenser water system if a condenser
system is used then you'll often find a free cooler connected to the system or
sometimes built into the chillers this allows the heat to be removed without or
with minimal use of the compressor using just the fans to blow cooler ambient air
across the condenser which removes the heat okay guys that's it for this video
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