Low Cost / No Cost Cooling Solutions

Low Cost/No Cost Strategies

Managing airflow is critically important to data center operation. If there's excess airflow, you're wasting money and energy. If there's too little, you risk downtime or equipment failures.

42U's low cost/no cost data center products have one purpose: finding that happy medium to make cooling more effective. Contact a 42U solutions specialist for a free project evaluation or call 1-800-638-2638.

Eliminate Bypass Airflow

Bypass airflow-conditioned air which does no productive cooling-wastes the energy required to cool and move air and often results in insufficient supply temperatures and air volume (CFM) for the equipment.

42U offers the following products to combat bypass airflow:

Rack Blanking Panels

Blanking panels prevent supply airflow from bypassing through unoccupied rack spaces. They also ensure that server exhaust air, destined for the hot aisle, does not recirculate through the cabinet.

42U's blanking panels install toollessly into any 19" EIA standard rack and present a quick, simple, effective solution to improve cooling performance.

Tool-less Blanking Panels Installed in a Server Cabinet

Floor Grommets

Bypass airflow commonly escapes through cutouts in raised floors (One data center's internal study revealed roughly 35% of the total supply air was lost to bypass airflow, which escaped through cable cutouts under floormount PDUs ). This dilemma is familiar to a number of data center operators, who often have a maze of cables, conduits, and pipes under the raised floor, all of which terminate above the floor tiles.

Floor Grommet

42U's specifies and sells floor grommets and foam blocks that seal cutouts for cables, piping, and conduits. These products enable a number of efficiency gains:

• Increases existing cooling unit capacity
• Reduces the need to purchase additional cooling units
• Improves equipment reliability and extends equipment life
• Increases static pressure under the raised floor and improves cool air delivery through perforated tiles and floor grates
• Facilitates Cold Aisle/Hot Aisle best practices