DATA CENTER

HUMIDIFICATION
& COOLING

Humidification and Evaporative Cooling

 TRUSTED TECHNOLOGY
Condair humidifiers are used in data
centers around the world to provide
humidity control, prevent electrostatic
discharge (ESD) or offer high capacity,
low cost evaporative cooling.
Some of the World’s largest brands put
their trust in Condair humidification
systems to help them fulfil their data
centers’ environmental control
strategies.

Facebook,
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Barclays Bank, UK
Microsoft, Ireland Citi Group, UK Magnit, Russia

Hewlett Packard, Canada Leibnitz Rechenzentrum , Germany

Microsoft, US
RBC Royal Bank, Canada Deutsche Flugsicherung, Germany
Digital Reality, US
Ebay, US
Hewlett Packard, US NHN, South Korea

AT&T Mobile, US China Construction Bank, China

Tianjin Sai De Data Center, China

Metronode, Australia

GLOBAL EXPERTISE, LOCAL SOLUTIONS

Condair has manufacturing facilities in
Canada, UK, Denmark, Germany,
Switzerland and China as well as
wholly-owned sales operations in
13 countries and distributors in
over 40 more.
The company has been serving the
global data center industry for more
than 25 years. It has a dedicated Data
Center Business Development Team
that draws expertise from all corners
of the organisation, benefiting clients
no matter where they or their projects
are located.
Regional R&D departments work with
project teams to develop bespoke
solutions, while specialist Condair
service engineering teams provide the
comprehensive maintenance support
critical environments require.
Condair’s experience across many
major global data center projects is
brought to bear from initial concept
discussions through to installation,
commissioning and beyond.
 EVAPORATIVE COOLING
Reducing PUE with low energy cooling
A single Condair adiabatic humidifier
can deliver up to 630kW of evaporative
cooling while operating on less than
0.3kW of electricity. This technology
increases the cooling capacity of a data
center’s ventilation system and extends
the use of free air cooling into periods
when the outside air alone is too warm
to meet the required internal conditions.
HUMIDIFICATION
Maintaining ASHRAE standards & combating ESD
Humidity control in data centers is
required to prevent ESD from
damaging electrical equipment.
Fig 1
Wet Bulb 20 (68)
Temperature
˚C (˚F)
15 (59)
10 (50)
5 (41)
0 (32)
0 (32) 5 (41) 10 (50) 15 (59)
Dry Bulb Temperature - ˚C (˚F)
© ASHRAE graphic reformatted by Condair
Condair humidifiers are used to energy into the incoming air via a heat
deliver low energy evaporative cooling recovery system.
directly to incoming fresh air as well as
being incorporated into in-direct These low energy cooling techniques
evaporative cooling systems. These can significantly reduce or even
reduce the temperature of incoming air eliminate the need for mechanical
without raising its humidity by cooling in data centers with a resultant
humidifying exhaust air and drop in PUE.
transferring its resultant cool thermal
For existing data centers ASHRAE Condair has a comprehensive range
recommends a humidity level of 5.5°C of humidifiers to help data center
dew point to 60%RH and an allowable operators meet ASHRAE’s standards,
range of between 20-80%RH (see fig 1). including innovative low energy
adiabatic systems that can utilise heat
Relative Humidity from the data halls to minimise
90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% humidifier energy consumption.
25 (77)
25 (77)
A3 A4
Dew Point Temperature - ˚C (˚F)
A2 20 (68)
A1 15 (59)
10 (50)
Recommended
5 (41)
0 (32)
20 (68) 25 (77) 30 (86) 35 (95) 40 (104) 45 (113)
 SOLUTIONS FOR DATA CENTERS
Condair has a comprehensive range of
humidification and evaporative cooling
products to suit any data center’s
environmental control system.
From an individual in-room steam
humidifier to large in-duct evaporative
systems, refurbishments of air
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handling units to newly constructed
ON-SITE CONSULTATION
buildings or modular data centers,
Condair has the technology and
expertise to provide the ideal solution.

Evaporative humidification High pressure humidification

Steam humidification Hybrid humidification

Condair AG
Member of the Walter Meier Group
Verkauf Schweiz, Talstrasse 35-37, 8088 Pfäffikon SZ
Tel: +41 55 416 6111 - info@condair.com - www.condair.com

02/2014