Topic guide
Explore technical publications on data centre cooling systems, thermal loads and operating conditions. Review air and liquid approaches, energy use and operational requirements within each source’s scope.
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Danfoss 2026
In the cooling-plant builder keep a component list per subsystem (chiller, CDU, pump skid, heat recovery) with fields for maximum chilled-water temperature, HX approach temperature and VFD THDi.
Danfoss 2024
Report PUE, WUE and CUE together in the sustainability module.
Open Compute Project Foundation 2023
A heat-reuse module should report recoverable heat (kW) and its temperature band by cooling technology (air, RDHx, DLC/immersion) and suggest compatible heat-host categories.
7x24 Exchange Magazine 2025
Add a floor design load field (default 400 psf / about 19 kPa for white space) and check rack and liquid-cooling weight against it.
Arup (Arup Foresight) 2025
Show WUE (L/kWh) next to PUE for every heat-rejection option.
npj Clean Water (Springer Science and Business Media LLC) 2021
In cooling selection, add the roughly 25.5 million litres per year per MW of evaporative cooling water need and the potable share (57-65%) to the siting and water supply decision.
Arup 2026
Add a heat-recovery block to the cooling design: recoverable heat (kW, % of IT load), supply/return temperatures and optional heat-pump lift.
ASHRAE 2009
Use as a general reference for the HVAC design-basis checklist: criteria, loads, distribution.
ASME (Digital Infrastructure column) 2026
Default CDUs to N+1 per row or pod.
Vertiv 2022
In a retrofit workflow identify zones above about 30 kW/rack and propose rear-door heat exchanger or direct liquid cooling options.
Schneider Electric 2016
Store full UPS efficiency curves (10/25/50/75/100% load), ride-through, footprint and service clearance, and a technology field (static VRLA, static Li-ion, DRUPS) rather than one peak value.
Frontiers in Energy Research (Frontiers Media SA) 2022
For loads of 50 kW per rack and above, evaluate a hybrid cold-plate scheme (main loads on cold plates, remaining heat in air) for a PUE target below 1.2.
Open Compute Project Foundation 2025
Record approach temperature difference, P-Q curve, fan/pump redundancy and coil material in rear-door and sidecar catalogue items.
Consulting-Specifying Engineer 2015
Include economizer control limits, part-load loss curves for each electrical stage and the redundancy topology as energy model inputs.
Uptime Institute Journal 2016
Catalogue economizer units with operating modes, restart time and recirculation capability.
ASHRAE 2020
Add vestibule or servicing-condition checks to the edge enclosure template.
Frontiers in Built Environment (Frontiers Media SA) 2024
Make aisle containment the default in raised-floor or in-row cooling: containment raised ASE from 65.69% to 85.57-90.25% and brought SHI close to zero.
Schneider Electric 2011
Model each infrastructure block with no-load, proportional and square-law coefficients (Table 2 as defaults) and compute PUE as a curve over 0-100% IT utilisation.
arXiv preprint (Harvard University et al.) 2025
For AI-campus grid studies, use the default rack-density bands (7-10 kW traditional, 30-100+ kW AI).
International Energy Agency 2025
Use the IEA component split (servers about 60%, storage about 5%, network up to 5%, cooling 7-30%) to sanity-check modelled energy breakdowns.
Sustainability (MDPI AG) 2023
Show evaporative free-cooling feasibility with a potential-hours study that bins the city's hourly wet-bulb distribution against mode thresholds (13 and 15 °C); in a humid climate direct evaporative mode ran only 262 h a year.
Scientific Reports (Springer Science and Business Media LLC) 2025
Set up the retrofit workflow as KPI-guided: with a validated CFD model compute RCI, RHI, RTI and the recirculation index, then test rack repositioning, separators, sealing unused bays and removing badly placed ventilation units in sequence.
Energies (MDPI AG) 2025
In PUE comparisons state the facility type (edge, SMB, enterprise, colocation, hyperscale) and assign IT/facility power categories per The Green Grid definitions in detail; PUE across types is not directly comparable.
U.S. DOE Federal Energy Management Program / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2013
Use the package cost/kW and payback ranges as defaults in the retrofit measure library (air management, generator block heater controls, chilled-water plant).
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