发明名称 Controlling data center cooling
摘要 A data center cooling system includes a data center having electronic equipment that is supported in multiple racks; a cooling fluid source; multiple cooling units in the data center, where each cooling unit is configured to cool air warmed by a sub-set of the electronic equipment in the data center; multiple control valves, including a control valve associated with a particular cooling unit of the cooling units; and a controller arranged to modulate the control valve associated with a particular cooling unit, to open or close the control valve to substantially maintain an approach temperature set point of the particular cooling unit.
申请公布号 US9091496(B2) 申请公布日期 2015.07.28
申请号 US201313779159 申请日期 2013.02.27
申请人 Google Inc. 发明人 Imwalle Gregory P.;Kowalski Thomas R.;Carlson Andrew B.
分类号 H05K7/20;F28F27/02 主分类号 H05K7/20
代理机构 Fish & Richardson P.C. 代理人 Fish & Richardson P.C.
主权项 1. A data center cooling system, comprising: a data center having electronic equipment that is supported in a plurality of racks; a cooling fluid source; a plurality of cooling units in the data center, each cooling unit configured to cool air warmed by a sub-set of the electronic equipment in the data center; a plurality of control valves, including a particular control valve associated with a particular cooling unit of the plurality of cooling units; and a controller arranged to modulate the particular control valve associated with a particular cooling unit, to open or close the control valve to substantially maintain an approach temperature set point of the particular cooling unit, wherein the approach temperature is defined by a difference between a temperature of an airflow circulated from the cooling unit and a temperature of the cooling fluid source circulated to the particular cooling unit, and wherein the controller is arranged to receive a signal adjusting the approach temperature set point, wherein the controller is one of a plurality of controllers, each of the plurality of controllers associated with one of the plurality of cooling units, where the controller is arranged to modulate the particular control valve based on receipt of a signal adjusting the approach temperature set point based, at least in part, on the particular control valve being at a percentage open position that varies from a threshold percentage open setpoint.
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