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Blanking Panels and Rack Airflow Management
Improving rack airflow plays an important role in data centre airflow management. By preventing hot server exhaust air from recirculating back to the front of the rack, and mixing with the cold air cooling the servers, can efficiently improve their cooling and help make energy cost savings.
One major part of this is the use of Blanking Panels which play an important role in the airflow efficiency of the data centre. Blanking Panels are used to seal off unused rack space and EDP Europe offer two Blanking Panel solutions HotLok® and PlenaFill®. EDP also offers other products that prevent air from recirculating between the rails and side of racks and underneath the rack.
HotLok® blanking panels, from Upsite Technologies, are a range of 1U or 2U blanking panels that have a unique touch-tight design. The design prevents hot air leakage by eliminating the gap between adjoining blanking panels or the rack mounted equipment.
PlenaFill® blanking panels are supplied in packs of 10 27U sheets, that's 270U of blanking in one pack! Each PlenaFill® 27U sheet is scored at 1U intervals so the required number of U can be simply snapped off.
RackSEAL is a rack air barrier that fits between the sides of the cabinets and the mounting rails, externally between racks or underneath the rack. These areas have until now, been difficult areas to seal to prevent hot exhaust air recirculating to the front of rack. RackSEAL air barrier is easy to install and is available in different sizes to seal gaps up to 125mm.
The HotLok Round Rack Mount Grommet has been engineered to seal server rack cable openings, blocking bypass airflow and maximising cooling system performance.
AisleLok under rack panel is designed to seal openings below the rack on new and existing raised server racks, the AisleLok under rack panel blocks bypass airflow and maximises the cooling system's efficiency.
