Weekly Wrap-up: An R717 Adsorption Heat Pump for 40°C Heat Sources, bluu unit’s data center acquisition, Sanhua’s New Components Package and More
In addition to what we published this week, these stories caught our eye.
In addition to what we published this week, these stories caught our eye.
The tech giant says the move effectively eliminates the need for chillers in data centers.
Anna Blomborg, Head of Data Centers at the company, on the opportunities presented by regulations and corporate sustainability initiatives.
‘The forecasts we’re seeing are extraordinary – some volume projections seem almost unrealistic,’ Anna Blomborg, Head of Data Centers at Alfa Laval, told NaturalRefrigerants.com.
The site’s PUE dropped from as high as 1.8 to generally below 1.5, while adding AI workloads, according to Evocative’s vice president.
Backed by more than 260 installations, the company expects CO2 deployments in the sector to roughly double each year through 2031.
Two 100kW CO2 chillers and in-row CRAHs provide cooling for the edge data center, which features 48 high-performance GPUs.
The program is being run in collaboration with Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft.
The company is working on five data center projects in Australia with installed IT capacities of 180MW or more.
The company’s Business Development Director for Data Centers details the company’s work in the sector.
‘The waste heat generated by the Kajaani data centers is expected to cover more than 80% of the region’s heating demand,’ the contractor said.
The panel emphasized that successful projects rely on early municipal planning that aligns power, heat and zoning.
The 1,000m2 data center is located in Valencia and was first announced in 2023.
Fenagy’s first data center project is in Finland, where its heat pump–chiller will cool servers and lift waste heat for use in the local district heating network.
The company’s move into the data center sector is being led by isobutane combined heat pump–chillers.
The Paterna facility is “among the first globally” to use CO2 refrigerant for data center cooling, according to the manufacturer.
The company’s BPHEs help facilitate heat recovery and reuse at a data center in Sweden.
Christer Frennfelt, Business Development Manager at SWEP, discusses the company’s work in the sector.
The Turbocor TNS385 has a maximum capacity of 385kW and is designed for air-cooled chillers.
Enrico Boscaro, Group Marketing Manager for HVAC Industrial at Carel, shares his insights into Eurovent’s work in the sector and how he sees it evolving.
The data center industry ‘is in the DNA’ of Carel, according to Enrico Boscaro, the company’s Group Marketing Manager for HVAC Industrial.
Zudek replaced a German data center’s R407C chiller with an ammonia chiller that was 43% more energy efficient.
Zudek’s move into commercial HVAC is being spearheaded by Windmatik, a new air-cooled ammonia chiller
BAC’s COBALT immersion cooling system enables a Houston colocation facility to run year-round without the use of mechanical cooling.
Jan Tysebaert, Global General Manager for Data Center Cooling at BAC, details the company’s single-phase immersion cooling technology.
Six Secon air-cooled propane chillers provide cooling at the 4.4MW data center.
German hydrocarbon chiller manufacturer Secon has worked on more than 30 data center projects, including a recently built Penta Infra colocation facility in Hamburg.
The data center operates without the assistance of any mechanical cooling and has a PUE of 1.15.
Triton also highlighted the importance of capacity building in the HVAC&R sector and the growing investment risks linked to PFAS.
The two-day event will also include sessions on HVAC&R market trends and case studies and panel discussions on investors and training.
DK5 is a retrofit of an existing data center that previously used HFC-based cooling equipment.
By minimizing compressor use, the technology delivers major energy savings over synthetic-based cooling systems.
Linde Engineering’s cryogenic plant will provide cooling for PsiQuantum’s future facility in Brisbane, Australia.
For the first time, ATMO Europe will feature sessions dedicated to two emerging sectors in sustainable cooling: data center cooling and refrigerant-free caloric cooling solutions.
American components manufacturer Copeland has announced the opening of a new engineering and technology center in Pune, India, that it said will help drive “natural refrigerants adoption” in India. The…
The more efficient chiller helped the data center, located in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, reduce costs by nearly €2,000.
Timur Sirman, CEO and Co-Founder of Magnotherm, said the company is currently seeking technical, commercial and financial partners ‘to help support the next steps.’