Container Data Center Cooling via Coil Heat Exchange
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cooling methods in container data centers have poor cooling effects due to a small contact area between the cooling medium and the container space, resulting in inefficient heat exchange.
Innovation Solution
A container data center design featuring a box with an accommodating cavity for electronic devices, a heat dissipation pipeline with a coil component, a supply component, and an extraction component. The coil component is located inside the heat dissipation pipeline and has a large cross-sectional area for enhanced heat exchange, with the cooling medium flowing inside to cool high-temperature gases.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a cooling medium is directly introduced into the container to exchange heat with high-temperature air, then the cooling system is simple, but the cooling effect is poor due to small contact area
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the cooling medium from a gas phase to a liquid phase, utilizing the liquid's higher density and better heat transfer properties. The liquid cooling medium flows through pipelines in contact with the container wall, effectively utilizing the three-dimensional space within the container for heat exchange, thereby dramatically improving the contact area and cooling efficiency.
2Productivity
If the cooling medium contact area with the container space is increased, then the heat exchange efficiency is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cooling system is segmented into distinct functional modules: a cooling medium supply component, a heat dissipation pipeline system with coil components, and an extraction component. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while working together to achieve efficient heat exchange throughout the container space.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs a nested structure where coil components are arranged inside the heat dissipation pipelines, and multiple coil components are distributed throughout the container. This nested arrangement maximizes the contact area between the cooling medium and the container wall without requiring a completely separate external cooling system.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The design improves heat exchange efficiency by increasing the contact area between the cooling medium and the high-temperature gas, effectively cooling electronic devices within the container data center.
Implementation Method 1
the coil component has a cooling medium flowing inside; the cooling medium becomes a defective medium after heat exchange with a high-temperature gas
Data Source
AI summary
The present application provides a container and a container data center. The container includes a box, a heat dissipation pipeline, a coil component, a supply component, and an extraction component. The box has an accommodating cavity, and the heat dissipation pipeline, the coil component, the supply component and the extraction component are all located outside the box. The heat dissipation pipeline has an air inlet end and an air outlet end. Two ends of the coil component are respectively connected to the supply component and the extraction component. A cooling medium for cooling high-temperature gas flows inside the coil component and is used to cool the high-temperature gas entering the heat dissipation pipeline from the accommodating cavity. The cooling medium becomes a defective medium after contacting and exchanging heat with the high-temperature gas, and the extraction component is configured to discharge the defective medium.