Wright Line's Paramount enclosure with integrated HCS

Wright Line’s Heat Containment System (HCS) is a simple, scalable and low cost solution to cool up to 25kW or more per enclosure without the expense of adding supplemental CRAC units to your data center. This patented technology is available on Wright Line’s Paramount and Vantage S2 enclosure systems and can also be field retrofitted to most manufacturers’ enclosures. The HCS contains and directs the heat exhaust of your IT equipment through the chimney that is attached to the top rear of the enclosure. The hot air is then ducted to your existing CRAC units through the plenum ceiling or high air returns.

Wright Line’s HCS is:

• Scalable – It can be adapted to existing infrastructures to increase rack utilization as your capacity demands grow
• Predictable – It separates hot exhaust air and cold supply air; dramatically increasing the reliability of the data center
• Efficient – Allowing hotter air to return directly to the CRACs, increasing their efficiency by operating at a higher Delta T (ΔT). The use of air-side economizers, variable speed fans and heat recovery also increase performance
• Reliable – It extends existing cooling capacity throughout the data center; freeing up stranded assets and lowering operational costs
• Flexible – It does not require you to alter existing enclosure locations and is also field-installable on third-party enclosures

At Wright Line and Empower, we understand how air works in the data center. Unlike other approaches that simply insert more fans in the enclosure or utilize spot cooling devices in the row, our Paramount and Vantage S2 enclosure systems feature a modular design that addresses air volume, air direction and heat exhaust within the enclosure. As your applications grow or you consolidate servers, cooling capacity can be increased simply by modifying the doors, side panels and tops of your enclosure system. The base enclosure remains the same, lowering your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Converting existing enclosures to the HCS allows you to eliminate the incremental capital expense associated with having to add more CRAC units or other supplemental cooling. The HCS manages the hot air exhaust, which prevents mixing, thereby allowing the available cooling already produced by your AC units, to be used much more efficiently. Optional fans eliminate the issue of backflow from a pressurized plenum, generally associated with passive-only systems.

Download the brochure: Wright Line Airflow Management – Click here.  To learn more about how the Wright Line HCS can help your data center, contact Mark Bell at 404.681.3270 or email to mbell@empoweret.com.  Below is a video on the Wright Line HCS: