Airedale by Modine has recently launched its Cooling System Optimizer in the U.S., following surge in demand for intelligent controls systems that can manage increasingly complex chilled water systems. First launched in Europe in 2022 and able to manage chilled water loops of up to 20MW and beyond, demand for the Optimizer has grown as data center providers adopt larger, more complex cooling systems.
The Optimizer is an intelligent controls layer that sits between product controls in chillers and CRAHs and below the site Building Management System (BMS). It is programmed to unify indoor and outdoor cooling equipment to proactively manage the three most important things in any data center cooling system: resilience, redundancy and energy use. Leveraging the benefits of primary ring chilled water cooling systems as well as remaining compatible with primary/secondary systems, the Optimizer is designed to manage dynamic variable flow systems to consistently deliver on critical SLAs, at the lowest possible energy input.
Equipment outages as a result of power issues, network storms and communication losses, are the scourge of many data centers. The Cooling System Optimizer has been developed with this in mind, with built-in ability to effectively manage equipment drop-outs in a much quicker and efficient way than a standard BMS. Residing in standard and proven PLC-based controllers, it is highly redundant and compatible with external ICT security networks.
