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, a modular system inspired by the integration of elements like chips on a motherboard, allowing faster, more flexible configurations for complex data centre designs.

Hot and cold aisle separation is standard in all new data centres, however, improved air flow management and hot aisle containment (HAC) leakage reduction can have a positive improvement on air temperatures in the room.. Air Side Economisers.In data centres operating within ASHRAE A1 Allowance temperature and located in colder/dryer climates, direct evaporative coolers (DEC) are a highly efficient solution, however, they utilise a larger footprint on the site.

These systems can potentially operate in free cooling mode year-round, leveraging both dry and adiabatic cooling based on external conditions.This can translate to low reliance on mechanical cooling and potentially exceptional PUE values..Using water for adiabatic cooling allows the unit to cool the air close to the wet bulb temperature of the ambient air as opposed to the dry bulb temperature (dry cooling).

Due to the wet bulb temperature being often many degrees below coincident dry bulb temperature, in high dry bulb conditions this can mitigate the requirement for mechanical cooling.. Data Centre with DEC unit.Chilled water system flexibility.

The most common systems installed in data centres use chilled water as the medium between the internal and external units.

Chilled water systems offer significant flexibility:.Sometimes we find something which human expertise has not spotted.

Generative design can create unexpected options with high value.. We are now working on making Chips available to very large numbers of users through a web interface, to use generative design for pharmaceutical plants.We are also associating process simulation data with those Chips, so that we can look at throughput, and use throughput to define what Chips we need..

The Chip as future enabler.We are often asked what ‘Chip’ stands for.