Sun Cooling Door keeps systems cool
 

We are building a new data center at my company and one of the things that has come up is, of course, cooling. We found a wonderful product that we can integrate into our unde rfloor cooling system. This is call the Sun Cooling Door was designed by Sun Microsystems and Emerson Network Power.
This Sun Cooling Door attaches to the back of cabinets where you have your servers. It uses an inert refrigerant gas that is called R134. There is also a Liebert XD pumping unit included. With this design you don't need separate fans, and that is saving us even more money on energy.

This product sounds extremely interesting. Cooling is one of our major concerns at our datacenter. Unfortunately our system is out of date, and we are investigating now how to bring it up to date while also saving energy. I've gone on line and found some information about the Sun Cooling Door and we plan to discuss the possibility of putting it into our existing floor plan.

This is definitely a very interesting concept. I wonder if it would work in a large datacenter, or if it would only work on a small scale? Do you have any more information about this products 'telli12'? Is there a website out there with more information and its specs out there on the internet somewhere?

This is rack-level cooling and works very well in both open and contained cooling architectures. These devices can provide primary cooling for small sites or can be used to address hot spots or decrease ambient room temperatures. This solution requires wider hot aisles, to preserve rear access to the racks. For sites that prefer or already have access to chilled water, IBM offers a similar product called the Rear Door Heat Exchanger.

Note that it may not be possible to convert your existing racks to this technology.


Ken

i read about a similar product by alcatel lucent. it seems like the solution to cut down the cooling costs by about 40 percent. that is a huge sum of savings that can be invested in upgrading the data centers

Update: I just received the following product announcement from Rittal about their new rear door heat exchanger, which they say removes up to 20kW of heat(!):
http://www.imakenews.com/eletra/mod_...f&uid=bj71KRfV


Ken

Here is a quick story about a DC that alreay uses these doors.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/a...ling-approach/

Thay are using the Sun Cooling Doors. At the bottom of the page is a cool video too.