Retrofitting Cold Aisle Containment System From EDP Europe
Cold Aisle Containment is a relatively simple and logical solution for effectively managing airflow within a data centre. Whatever your key reason for deploying cold aisle containment, there are numerous additional benefits to be recognised. Cost saving is usually a key driver for installing a cold aisle containment system, however, other benefits include: Improved PUE, lower carbon emissions, extending IT equipment life, potentially fewer equipment failures due to overheating and aesthetic
Retrofitting Cold Aisle Containment System From EDP Europe
Cold Aisle Containment is a relatively simple and logical solution for effectively managing airflow within a data centre. Whatever your key reason for deploying cold aisle containment, there are numerous additional benefits to be recognised. Cost saving is usually a key driver for installing a cold aisle containment system, however, other benefits include: Improved PUE, lower carbon emissions, extending IT equipment life, potentially fewer equipment failures due to overheating and aesthetically enhancing the appearance of your data centre as it creates uniformity in your aisles.
Whatever your reason, one of the key advantages for choosing an EDP Cold Aisle Containment solution is, it is a non-intrusive, bespoke, retrofitting aisle containment system, which can be used for hot aisle containment as well as for cold aisle containment, and can be customised to work with any combination of cabinet and room dimensions. Many data centres have evolved over a period of time and as requirements have changed, this has resulted in a mix of rack manufacturers, cabinet sizes and cooling systems, EDP’s cold aisle containment is flexible enough to adapt to these irregularities.
Cold aisle containment encloses the cold aisle and prevents the mixing of cold air and hot exhaust air. Doing so allows air to be returned to the CRAC units hotter, which significantly improves the efficiency of your building’s cooling system. Being able to regulate the airflow enables better control of the room’s temperature. Increasing the temperature of CRAC units by 1°C, provides a typical saving in the region of 8% of cooling power bills. In addition, the chiller units will make greater use of natural air temperature (free cooling), further enhancing energy savings. 74% of server failures occur in the top third of the rack where the temperature is traditionally hotter, cold aisle containment provides temperature equilibrium across all servers, no matter where they are positioned in the rack.
Not all simple solutions are equal. ‘Effective’ simplicity needs to be designed. A lot of time and attention is spent attending to the ‘detail’ of our cold aisle containment solution. This attention to detail ensures our product is constantly evolving and we pride ourselves in providing the most effective cold aisle containment solution available.
EDP Cold Aisle Containment Features:
EDP cold aisle containment retrofits to existing cabinets no matter what their height, width or manufacturer.
Light weight, Polycarbonate fluted roof panels on EDP’s cold aisle containment provide good light diffusion, and can be easily removed for maintenance access and cleaning.
Tailor-made centre roof support brackets that are designed to support different fire suppression requirements.
No need to move fire suppression, we’ll work with your fire suppression company to design / modify our roof panels to accommodate their system.
Choice of fire protection options including:
A fusible link release mechanism that allows the release of the panels at 58°C.
Gas fire protection system, where roof panels feature a rubber seal to prevent gas leakage.
