Designing A Computer Room Air Conditioning System

2007-11-09 05:11:17

( Computers )



You would want to avoid computer downtime in your office as much as possible. Failure to keep the proper controls of air movement, temperature, humidity, power and cleanliness in a computer room accounts for computer downtime. For this reason, an adequate computer room air conditioning system must be properly designed and installed.

Your equipment has a number of special needs, and many are not compatible with the needs of cooling people. Remember that most computer equipment operate twenty-four hours a day, and thus the computer room air conditioning system should be independent of any other cooling system serving other parts of the building. Your computer room air conditioning ducts should come with dampers, which an automated emergency power system can activate.

Air intakes leading to computer room air conditioners, whether located inside or outside the building, should be designed to prevent entry of flames, smoke, soot or dust particles, fumes and corrosive vapors, and other contaminated air into the computer room. And since it is sometimes inevitable that some air would find its way inside the room, the design of computer room air conditioning system must include its capability to exhaust contaminated air.

If you have invested thousands of dollars in your hardware, you may want to design your computer room into one that uses specialized environmental control systems. These systems will not only cool and, as a consequence, dehumidify the computer room air like standard air conditioners but also heat and increase humidity if required.

In addition, this type of computer room air conditioning system carries sensors that trigger alarms whenever temperature or humidity values are outside the acceptable range. These alarms possess capability to send an alert to your network management console, letting your operators know, whether they are two floors or 500 miles away, that something is wrong before systems start failing due to heat prostration.


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