CONTAINER BASED DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS

• US 20110240265A1
• Filed: 04/06/2010
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schneider Electric IT Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: American Power Conversion Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: McMahan, Lianne M., Ziegler, William, Dechene, Joseph
• Granted Patent: US 9,670,689 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 165/104.31
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 2005/005 Buildings for data processing centers
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 5/02 Buildings or groups of buildings for industrial purposes, e.g. for power-plants or factories buildings forming part of cooling plants E04H5/10
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1497 Rooms for data centers; Shipping containers therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20745 within rooms for removing heat from cabinets, e.g. by air conditioning device

Abstract

A cooling container comprises a container housing with a chilled water storage tank including a first interface for receiving chilled water. The chilled water tank has a plurality of straight pipes joined by elbows connections to provide a folded path, the full path length being greater than the length of the container housing, and a second interface for outputting the chilled water. A number of interfaces within the container housing are configured to receive a chiller module or a free cool unit.

Claims

1-25. -25. (canceled)

26. A cooling container comprising:

a container housing;

a chilled water storage tank including a first interface for receiving chilled water, a plurality of straight pipes joined by elbow connections to provide a folded path, a full path length of the chilled water storage tank being greater than the length of the container housing, and a second interface for outputting the chilled water; and

a plurality of interfaces within the container housing configured to receive a chiller module or a free cool unit.

27. A cooling container of claim 26 wherein the container is capable of N+1 redundancy operation for data center reliability and availability.

28. A cooling container of claim 26 further comprising a plurality of free cool units.

29. A cooling container of claim 26 further comprising a plurality of chiller modules.

30. A cooling container of claim 26 further comprising an integrated pump.

31. A cooling container of claim 26 further comprising integrated hydronics.

32. A cooling container of claim 26 wherein the container may be configured to receive variable number of chiller modules and free cool units to satisfy particular capacity and efficiency requirements of a data center system.

33. A cooling container of claim 26 wherein the chiller modules and free cool units and hot swappable.