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Data Center Cooling Calculation

The document outlines the calculation of cooling equipment capacity for a server room with 100 racks, each consuming 5 kW. It details the contributions from IT heat load, UPS heat load, lighting heat load, and occupant heat load, resulting in a total cooling capacity of approximately 507.8 kW. After accounting for a 20% redundancy factor, the final required cooling capacity is approximately 610 kW.

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Data Center Cooling Calculation

The document outlines the calculation of cooling equipment capacity for a server room with 100 racks, each consuming 5 kW. It details the contributions from IT heat load, UPS heat load, lighting heat load, and occupant heat load, resulting in a total cooling capacity of approximately 507.8 kW. After accounting for a 20% redundancy factor, the final required cooling capacity is approximately 610 kW.

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*Data center cooling calculation*

How to calculate the cooling equipment capacity of Data center Server room

Calculate the cooling capacity required for a server room with 100 racks each
consumption 5 kw knowing that

* A 20 KW UPS ( only facility) was installed inside server room and redundancy factor
should be considered
* There are separate electrical and mechanical room

Calculation are :

1- IT Heat load

Total IT Heat load = Number of racks × Racks density KW = 100 × 5 = 500 KW

2- UPS Heat load

- if there is UPS system ( Facility not feeding IT equipment) contribute the heat load we
will get value of heat load dissipation . Let assume that 20 KW UPS is added
- most UPS system operates efficiency around almost 96% but now is unity power factor
UPS.
- The power loss in the UPS which is express the heat load can be calculate the using
formula

Power loss ( UPS Heat load) = ( 1- efficiency ) × UPS rating = ( 1- 0.96) × 20 = 0.8KW

3- Lighting Heat load

- 20 W/ m² lighting Heat dissipation ( in case use in LED s ) . ( Area base)


- 50 W/ Rack lighting Heat dissipation ( base on design) . ( No of rack base)
- lighting Heat contribution ( areas base) = ( Area)* Lighting wattage / m² = ( No of
racks * 2.50) * 20 = 100 * 2.50 * 20 = 5000 Watts = 5 KW

Lighting Heat contribution ( no of rack base ) = no of rack * Lighting wattage / Racks =


100 * 50= 5000W = 5 KW

4- Occupants Heat load

- assuming 5 person in server room , with each approximately 0.4 kw


- occupant Heat contribution = number of occupant × occupant Heat contribution =
5×0.4= 2KW

5- Total cooling capacity

- Total cooling capacity = Heat load ( IT equipment + UPS + lighting + occupant ) = 500
+ 0.8 + 5 + 2 = 507.8KW

6- final calculation considering redundancy

- it's common practice to include the redundancy factor to ensure reliability in cooling
system, for this example we will use redundancy factor of 20%

- final cooling capacity = Total cooling capacity × ( 1+ redundancy factor ) = 507.8 ×


(1+ 0.2) = 609.36 KW

Conclusion -
- The total cooling capacity of a cooling equipment Required a server room With 100
racks each consumption 5 kw, considered additional Factor UPS & Redundancy factor Is
approx. 610kw.

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