Video Overview: AST's Free Cooling Module

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Video Overview: AST’s Free Cooling Module

Video Overview: AST’s Free Cooling Module
- By: Rich Miller
  August 24th, 2011
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A look at a deployment of AST Modular's Natural Free Cooling containerized solution in Sydney, Australia.

AST Modular recently helped a data center customer in Sydney, Australia expand its capacity with a double-decker containerized solution that added 17 racks cooled by outside air. The installation featured one 40-foot container filled with racks of servers, supported by AST’s Modular Natural Free Cooling Technology, a cooling module that sits atop the IT container. AST says the unit achieves an actual metered Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.09. The climate in Sydney allows the customer to use indirect airside economizers (free cooling) for 92 percent of the year. The system is controlled by management software that can switch between several modes of cooling: 100 percent free cooling at temperatures below 19° C (66 degrees F), partial economization with the use of adiabatic cooling, or mechanical cooling for temperatures approximately above 26° C (78 degrees F). This video provides an overview of AST’s Natural Free Cooling design, with illustrations of airflow and the air-to-air heat exchanger. It runs about 5 minutes, 30 seconds.

For more on energy efficiency, see our Green Data Centers Channel. For additional video, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.
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About Rich Miller

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.