Cooling Systems For Small Equipment Rooms And Methods Of Cooling Small Equipment Rooms

摘要

A cooling system for an equipment closet in a building has a direct expansion cooling circuit. The cooling system has two basic modes of operation. A first mode where the direct expansion cooling circuit is off and transfer air from an area of the building outside the equipment closet is used to cool the interior of the equipment closet without any cooling provided by the direct expansion cooling circuit and a second mode where the direct expansion cooling circuit is on and provides direct expansion cooling that is used to cool the interior of the equipment closet.

主权项

1. A method of cooling an equipment closet in a building with a cooling system, the cooling system having a direct expansion cooling circuit that includes a compressor, a condenser having a condenser coil and a condenser fan, an expansion device and an evaporator having an evaporator coil and an evaporator fan that are arranged in the direct expansion cooling circuit, at least the evaporator disposed in a cabinet in the equipment closet, the method comprising:
operating the cooling system in a first mode of operation with the direct expansion cooling circuit off to cool an interior of the equipment closet with transfer air drawn in from an area of the building outside of the equipment closet and operating the cooling system in a second mode of operation with the direct expansion cooling circuit running to cool the interior of the equipment closet with air cooled by the direct expansion cooling circuit; and controlling operation of the cooling system with a controller by having the controller operate the cooling system in the first mode of operation when the controller determines that operating the cooling system in the first mode of operation will meet a cooling demand due to heat load in the interior of the equipment closet and having the controller operate the cooling system in the second mode of operation when the controller determines that operating the cooling system in the first mode of operation won't meet the cooling demand.