Schneider Electric It Corporation

American Power Conversion Corporation

James William VanGilder

Xuanhang Zhang

Christopher M Healey

Neil Rasmussen

Mikkel Dalgas

Saurabh Kumar Shrivastava

Mark H Germagian

Michael B Condor

Henrik Daae

Stephen Berard

Todd J Giaquinto

Edward M Ives

Brad T Hammond

Scott Douglass Buell

Jane E Morgan

Zachary Pardey

Henrik Jensen

Sandi Schoellhammer

Yatharth Kishor Vaishnani

Morten Bock

Jason Dudek

John H Bean, Jr

James S Spitaels

Roy L Grantham

Kresten Peter Vester

Stuart Michael Sheehan

Wei Tian

Laurent Billet

Jean-Louis Bergerand

Claude Le Pape-Gardeux

Martin Johansen

Zachary R Sheffer

Christopher Hlasny

A system for determining and displaying air temperature, pressure, or velocity in an information technology (IT) room including an IT equipment rack. The system comprises a processor configured to receive a model of a layout of equipment within an IT room, define a primary computational grid including base grid cells with dimensions having a first ratio, define a set of computational grid origin offsets for the model, determine a hybrid computational grid having base grid cells, an origin offset selected from among the set of computational grid origin offsets, and a variable grid for the model associated with the computational grid origin offset having a lowest penalty score, perform a computational fluid dynamics analysis of the model utilizing the hybrid computational grid, and provide a display in a graphical user interface illustrating one or more of air temperatures, air pressures, or airflow velocities within the IT room.

Hybrid grid for data center computational fluid dynamics analysis

According to at least one aspect of the present disclosure, an information-technology-design system is provided comprising at least one processor coupled to at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive information-technology-device information indicative of a plurality of information-technology devices in a space, the information-technology-device information including information-technology-device-location information, temperature information, and capture-index information, determine, based on the information-technology-device information, a containment type of the plurality of information-technology devices, select, based on the containment type, at least a portion of the capture-index information, determine, based on the information-technology-device-location information, the temperature information, and the at least the portion of the capture-index information, a respective cooling-performance assessment for each information-technology device of the plurality of information-technology devices, and display an indicator of the respective cooling-performance assessment for each information-technology device of the plurality of information-technology devices in the space.

IT-room-cooling-performance assessment

One aspect is directed to a system for controlling airflow in a facility having a ceiling-ducted aisle airflow containment system having a first damper system for controlling airflow. The system includes an input to receive parameters related to airflow in the facility, wherein the parameters include at least one airflow resistance value for a device in the facility, an output to provide output data including at least one setting for one or more controllable devices in the facility, and one or more processors configured to receive the parameters related to airflow, determine airflow values associated with the airflow containment system and based on the airflow values, generate the at least one setting for the one or more controllable devices, including at least one setting for the first damper system.

Methods of balancing airflow in ceiling-ducted containment systems

A system for determining and displaying in a graphical user interface one or more of air temperature, pressure, or velocity in an information technology (IT) room including an IT equipment rack comprises a processor configured to receive an input comprising airflow resistance parameters through the rack, an IT equipment airflow parameter, a heat-dissipation parameter, an external pressure, and an external temperature, to run the input through a flow-network solver that solves for airflow velocities through at least one face of the rack and a rack air outflow temperature based on the input, provide an output including the airflow velocities and the rack air outflow temperature, and generate, based on the output, a display in a graphical user interface of the system illustrating one or more of air temperatures, air pressures, or airflow velocities within the IT room.

Systems and methods for generating in a graphical user interface a display representing air temperatures, pressures, and velocities in an information technology room

Systems and methods for a compact wall model are provided. According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a method that comprises receiving input data related to an enclosure, the input data including solar intensity data on an exterior of a wall of the enclosure, generating, by a processor, a thermal model of a wall of the enclosure based at least in part on the input data, the wall modeled as having a plurality of layers and the thermal model including a plurality of nodes such that each layer of the plurality of layers is associated with at least one node of the plurality of nodes and each node of the plurality of nodes is thermally coupled to an adjacent node by a thermal resistance, solving, by the processor, an energy balance equation for the at least one node to determine a predicted temperature for the at least one node, and output the predicted temperature to a display device.

Systems and methods for constructing a compact wall model

Systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable mediums are provided for determining data center resource requirements, such as cooling and power requirements, and for monitoring performance of data center resource systems, such as cooling and power systems, in data centers. At least one aspect provides a system and method that enables a data center operator to determine available data center resources, such as power and cooling, at specific areas and enclosures in a data center to assist in locating new equipment in the data center.

Methods and systems for managing facility power and cooling

Methods and systems for designing liquid cooled IT room architectures for an IT room using a graphical user interface include simultaneously displaying a configuration region and a results region in the graphical user interface, receiving a design parameter responsive to a user input of one of a plurality of user-selectable graphical user interface elements, determining a dielectric fluid return temperature based on an energy balance equation and a heat exchange equation, and responsive to receiving the design parameter and determining the dielectric fluid return temperature, dynamically displaying in the results region at least one of a first graph representing an amount of required room cooling power per a unit of area of the IT room or a second graph representing a surface temperature of at least one immersion-cooled equipment rack cooled by the architecture.

Systems and methods for determining liquid cooled architectures in an IT room

Systems and methods are provided for determining data center resource requirements, such as cooling and power requirements, and for monitoring performance of data center resource systems, such as cooling and power systems, in data centers. At least one aspect provides a system and method that enables a data center operator to determine available data center resources, such as power and cooling, at specific areas and enclosures in a data center to assist in locating new equipment in the data center.

A thermal buffering module is used in a combined equipment and cooling unit including a housing defining an interior configured to receive electronic equipment, with the electronic equipment being supported by the housing. The combined equipment and cooling unit further includes a cooling unit supported by the housing. The thermal buffering module includes at least one heat exchanger. The thermal buffering module is configured to selectively receive chilled air from the cooling unit to cool the at least one heat exchanger and to selectively receive warm IT air from the electronic equipment to cool the warm IT air as it travels over the at least one heat exchanger.

Thermal buffering module for equipment rack

A system and method for predicting the effect of a transient event on a data center. A method comprises receiving input data related to a data center that includes at least one equipment rack and at least one cooling provider, the input data including data center architecture information, building data, and operating data, generating, a model based at least in part on the input data and on a set of energy balance and heat exchange equations for the data center that account for removed and added heat and a thermal mass of the at least one equipment rack and a thermal mass of the at least one cooling provider, the model configured to predict at least one temperature in the data center during a transient event, and controlling a display device to display the at least one predicted temperature.

Method and system for predicting effect of a transient event on a data center

A system and method for providing a layout of equipment in a data center, the equipment including a plurality of equipment racks, and at least one rack-based cooling provider. In one aspect, the method includes receiving data regarding airflow consumption for each of the plurality of equipment racks and cooling capacity of the at least one cooling provider, determining a layout of the data center, and displaying the layout of the data center. In the method determining a layout can include pairing each equipment rack of the plurality of equipment racks with another equipment rack of the plurality of equipment racks based on airflow consumption of each of the plurality of equipment racks to create a plurality of pairs of equipment racks, and arranging the plurality of pairs of equipment racks to form a two-row cluster of equipment racks based on the airflow consumption of each equipment rack, wherein each pair includes an equipment rack in a first row of the cluster and an equipment rack in a second row of the cluster.

System and method for arranging equipment in a data center

A method comprises performing an analysis of airflow and temperature distribution in an indoor environment utilizing a hybrid turbulence model including a Chen-Xu model used for analysis of bulk flow and a wall function used in first grid cells bounding solid objects in the indoor environment and adjusting physical layout and/or operating parameters of heat producing electrical equipment and/or a cooling system of the indoor environment responsive to results of the analysis to improve one of temperature distribution within the indoor environment and operating efficiency of the cooling system of the indoor environment.

Zero-equation turbulence models for large electrical and electronics enclosure applications

In one embodiment, there is provided a computer-implemented method for evaluating ceiling plenum airflow patterns and cooling performance of equipment in a data center. The method includes receiving data related to equipment in the data center, receiving data related to the ceiling plenum, determining first parameters related to airflow and to pressure in the ceiling plenum using a first airflow model, determining second parameters related to airflow through a plurality of equipment racks and to pressure across the plurality of equipment racks using a second airflow model distinct from the first airflow model, determining a coupling relationship between airflow through the equipment racks and airflow into the ceiling plenum, adjusting the first parameters based on at least the second parameters and the coupling relationship, determining a sufficiency of airflow through the equipment racks, and storing, on a storage device, an indication of the sufficiency of airflow through the equipment racks.

Dropped ceiling system cooling prediction

According to one aspect, embodiments described herein provide a system and a method for modeling airflow. In one example, the system comprises a memory and a controller coupled to the memory, the controller configured to receive data related to equipment including at least two of a group comprising a cooling consumer and a cooling provider, compute at least one quantity of airflow between an inlet and an outlet associated with the equipment, generate a representation of at least one airflow path between the outlet and the inlet having a cross-sectional area proportional to the at least one quantity of airflow, and display the representation of the at least one airflow path in a cooling model.

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Pepperell, MA, United States of America

James William VanGilder