Cold Aisle Containment

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Advanced cold aisle containment solutions, designed to optimize airflow management and improve energy efficiency in data centers. By isolating cold air in specific aisles, GREEN DC system minimizes energy waste, ensures consistent cooling, and enhances the performance of critical IT equipment. The product comprises key components as such:

The sliding door consists of two movable panels made from durable polycarbonate and aluminum. It is available in customizable sizes, types, and colors to seamlessly fit your data center's design and requirements. The door can also be customized as a single-panel or double-panel sliding configuration to accommodate different space constraints and preferences. Featuring a smooth soft-closing mechanism and bigger aisle width coverage, it ensures quiet and controlled operation, reducing wear and tear while maintaining a secure seal for optimal containment performance.

Steel encapsulated control box functioned as the activation switch to trigger the opening of top cover in response to a fire signal. The control box is equipped with a dual-source control system to power the LED and top cover, ensuring an uninterrupted power supply in the event of a primary power failure.

Top cover helps to maintain efficient temperature control by enclosing cold air within the space. In the event of a fire, it automatically opens to facilitate smoke ventilation and heat release, ensuring enhanced safety and compliance with fire regulations.

Air deflector panels are crucial for separating hot and cold air ensures efficient cooling or heating, and enhances overall energy efficiency.

Without Containment

With Containment

In the absence of a containment system, the cold air exiting from the perforated raised floor disperses freely into the surrounding environment. This high-velocity airflow interacts with the surrounding warm air and mix rapidly due to turbulent flow, which leads to a loss of thermal stratification and results in thermal equilibrium. This mixing dilutes the cold air’s ability to cool the servers effectively, significantly reducing the cooling efficiency.

With a containment system, however, the top cover and air deflector panels act as flow boundaries, preventing the escape of cold air and reducing turbulent mixing. By confining the airflow within the containment, the system creates a controlled environment that adheres to the principles of Bernoulli’s equation and pressure differentials. The containment system increases the air pressure within the enclosed space due to the reduced volume for air dispersion, leading to a static pressure build-up. This pressure gradient forces the cold air to pass through server thus ensuring an optimized temperature gradient, reducing the workload on cooling systems, enhancing energy efficiency, and maintaining ideal operating conditions for the servers.