Optimization of Data Center Cooling and Water Efficiency Part 4: Sourcing Water You Don’t Have to Buy

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Optimization of Data Center Cooling and Water Efficiency Part 4: Sourcing Water You Don’t Have to Buy

We’ve talked about ways to reduce data center water consumption through non-evaporative and hybrid heat rejection. Even so, it is unlikely that data centers will abandon evaporative cooling altogether. It is too effective—and often too economical….

 

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Cooling Tower and Condenser Water Design Part 9: Controlling Cycles of Concentration

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Successful cooling tower operation and performance involves a delicate balance between (1) keeping the dissolved solids (such as calcium, magnesium, chloride, and silica) in the water from causing too much scale and/or corrosion and (2) conserving make-up water. It’s expensive, inefficient, and environmentally irresponsible to continuously dilute cooling tower water with an abundance of make-up water just to keep the ratio of minerals down. But how do you decide how much make-up water is needed to keep minerals within a tolerable range?
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