Alfa Laval is a leading provider of advanced heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling solutions, with 80+ years of experience they offer tailored products and services for data center cooling. As the demand for efficient, sustainable, and reliable cooling grows in the data center industry, Alfa Laval plays a pivotal role by supplying innovative technologies that address the unique challenges of cooling high-density IT environments.
Key Products and Services for Data Center Cooling:
Heat Exchangers
Cooling Towers
Dry Coolers
Adiabatic Cooling Systems
Monitoring and Service Support
Heat Exchangers
- Plate Heat Exchangers (PHEs): Highly efficient solutions for cooling systems, enabling effective heat transfer between water circuits. These exchangers reduce energy consumption and are ideal for free cooling applications.
- Brazed Heat Exchangers (BHEs): Compact and durable options for smaller or modular cooling systems, ensuring effective thermal management with minimal footprint.
- Gasketed Plate Heat Exchangers: Flexible and serviceable designs, ideal for large-scale operations in data centers.
Cooling Towers
Alfa Laval supports indirect free cooling setups, which take advantage of ambient air temperatures to cool data center equipment. This significantly reduces energy usage by minimising reliance on mechanical cooling.
Dry Coolers
Energy-efficient dry coolers designed for data centers, ensuring optimal performance and minimal water usage.
Adiabatic Cooling Systems
Solutions that combine dry cooling with adiabatic pre-cooling technology to enhance cooling efficiency during peak loads while conserving water.
Monitoring and Service Support
- IoT-enabled Systems: Integrated monitoring systems that provide real-time performance insights to optimise cooling operations.
- Maintenance Services: Comprehensive support, including cleaning, refurbishment, and on-site service, ensuring maximum uptime and efficiency.
Data Center's at a Glance
Cooling tower interchanger
In data centers, chillers consume significant electricity, leading to high costs and environmental concerns. Cooling towers can mitigate this by operating in free cooling mode to bypass chillers. However, open cooling towers risk fouling, reducing efficiency and increasing maintenance and costs. Installing a Gasketed Plate-and-Frame Heat Exchanger enables free cooling while minimising fouling risks, maintaining optimal cooling performance.
Free cooling with water
Free cooling with water is a cost-effective, eco-friendly alternative for data centers, reducing reliance on mechanical cooling, refrigerants, and fossil fuels. Alfa Laval offers solutions for all cooling media, including sea, brackish, river, and well water. Plate heat exchangers isolate chilled water loops, preventing corrosion, scaling, and maintenance, while offering a compact, space-saving design. For sea and freshwater, filtration is recommended.
Free cooling with air
Switching to a dry or adiabatic cooler eliminates bacterial risks in water and meets growing legal hygiene standards. When condensers are far from chillers, adding an intermediate plate heat exchanger reduces glycol use, saving costs and improving efficiency.
Heat recovery
Data centers have improved sustainability by reducing PUE, CUE, and WUE, but the next step is harnessing waste heat as an energy source. Heat recovery reduces environmental impact, operational costs, and enhances energy reuse effectiveness (ERE). While challenges exist due to low cooling water temperatures, heat pumps can elevate temperatures for reuse, improving system performance and profitability.
Liquid cooling
As data demands and power consumption soar, data centers face growing cooling challenges while striving for energy efficiency and sustainability. Liquid cooling is increasingly replacing traditional methods, and Alfa Laval offers compact, efficient brazed and fusion-bonded plate heat exchangers to meet these needs. Contact us to explore solutions for any data center size or climate.
Edge data centers
Data centers must adapt to rising demands from 5G, automation, streaming, gaming, and AR/VR while reducing their carbon footprint. To ensure high performance and low latency, they are moving closer to users at the Edge. Amid growing water scarcity, energy-efficient cooling solutions are more critical than ever.
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