Chillers and Data Centers -Data Centers – Heat Containment offered by Legacy Chiller Systems

SUMMARY Chillers and Data Centers -Data Centers – Heat Containment: Todays data centers are plagued with cool air oversupply and air distribution short-circuiting. Instead of supplying more chilled air, we can use a simpler approach to satisfy the same cooling requirements. SYMPTOMS Today’s data centers are plagued with cool air oversupply and air distribution short-circuiting. […]

Chillers and Data Centers – Increasing Efficiency Plus Reliability offered by Legacy Chiller Systems

SUMMARY Chillers and Data Centers – Enterprise data centers support the majority of financial and corporate institutions. Normally data centers are required to operate 24/7. These centers typically are operating with computing power demands in the range 50 W/ft2 to 100 W/sf2 where the area is defined to be the gross computer room floor area. […]

Chillers and Data Centers – Increasing Efficiency offered by Legacy Chiller Systems

SUMMARY Chillers and Data Centers – Datacom (data centers and communication facilities) energy use and efficiency has moved to the forefront of public policy, the IT (information technology industry, and data centers operator discussions. The focus has been driven by: Rising data center energy costs, the climate change debate and overall datacenter server densities. SYMPTOMS […]

Chillers and Data Centers – Greening the Data Center offered by Legacy Chiller Systems

SUMMARY Chillers and Data Centers – Greening the Data Center: What is a green data center? Data center industry stakeholders are discussing definitions in various consortiums and forums, but a obtainable document is not currently available SYMPTOMS What is a green data center? Data center industry stakeholders are discussing definitions in various consortiums and forums, […]

Toshiba Medical America Systems (TAMS) – No longer selling chillers for MRI

SUMMARY Article discusses recent changes at Toshiba Medical America Systems (TAMS) to no longer package chillers with their Vantage, Excelart, Opart and Opart Ultra MRI applications. RESOLUTION For many years now, Toshiba Medical America Systems (TAMS) has sold air-cooled chillers with their popular Vantage, Excelart, Opart and Opart Ultra Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications. Well, […]

RSES Journal June 2007 – EPA and Greenhouse Gases Regulations

SUMMARY Legacy Chiller Systems – HFC chiller refrigerants likely to fall under EPA’s efforts to slow global warming. SYMPTOMS R-134A, R404A, R507 and R410A and HFC-base fire suppressants will likely fall under stricter regulations because of their global warming potential. RELATED DOCUMENTS RSES Journal June 2007 – EPA and Greenhouse Gases Regulations