Container Module Baffles for Data Center Heat Interference
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Solution Overview
Problem
Air-cooled data containers in data centers experience unstable air flow and overheating due to heat interference between adjacent containers, leading to decreased space utilization and increased infrastructure costs.
Innovation Solution
A container module design with spaced box bodies, baffles, and a water curtain structure to manage air flow and prevent heat interference, featuring independent air intake and discharge, and baffles to guide hot air away from box bodies, with optional photovoltaic panels for energy generation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If air-cooled data containers are arranged closely to increase space utilization, then space utilization rate improves, but heat interference between adjacent containers increases causing unstable air flow and overheating
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the container arrangement into segmented flow paths using baffles. First baffles are arranged between adjacent containers to segment the air flow paths, preventing hot air from one container from directly entering another container's intake. This segmentation allows closer container spacing while maintaining stable air flow and reducing heat interference.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces baffles as intermediary structures between adjacent data containers. These baffles act as mediators that redirect and control the air flow, preventing direct thermal interaction between containers while enabling closer spacing. The baffles intercept hot air streams and guide them away from adjacent container intakes.
2Stability of the object's composition
If container spacing is increased to reduce heat interference, then heat dissipation stability improves, but space utilization rate decreases
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the air flow paths with baffles, the patent creates independent, controlled flow channels between containers. This allows containers to be placed closer together while each container maintains its own stable air flow path, preventing the heat interference that would normally require larger spacing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local flow control through strategically positioned baffles at specific locations between containers. Rather than requiring uniform increased spacing throughout, the baffles create localized flow management zones that stabilize air flow in critical areas while allowing closer spacing in other regions.
3Temperature
If containers are arranged in a dispersed layout to improve heat dissipation, then heat interference reduces, but infrastructure costs and space utilization worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The baffle-based flow path segmentation enables a compact, organized container layout rather than dispersed arrangement. Multiple containers can be closely grouped in rows with baffles managing the air flow between them, achieving effective heat dissipation while minimizing the total infrastructure area and associated costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple containers into a dense, organized arrangement with shared baffle structures managing air flow between them. This merging approach achieves effective heat dissipation for all containers simultaneously while using space more efficiently than dispersed layouts, reducing overall infrastructure requirements.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances heat dissipation efficiency and space utilization by maintaining independent air flow and reducing heat transfer between containers, while potentially generating electricity, thus optimizing data center operations and reducing energy consumption.
Implementation Method 1
the water curtain structure faces the air inlet of the box body, and is configured to reduce an air intake temperature of the box body
Implementation Method 2
the first baffle surrounds outer periphery of the at least two box bodies, and is configured to prevent hot air from entering an area between the box bodies
Implementation Method 3
the second baffle is provided at a top of each of the box bodies, and is configured to prevent the hot air from impacting the box bodies
Data Source
AI summary
The present application relates to the technical field of containers and discloses a container module and a container system. The container module includes at least two box bodies, a first baffle and a second baffle, where the at least two box bodies are provided at intervals, an air inlet and an air outlet are respectively provided at two opposite sides of the box bodies, and the air outlets of two adjacent box bodies are provided opposite each other; the first baffle surrounds the outer periphery of the at least two box bodies, and is configured to prevent hot air from entering areas between the box bodies; the second baffle is provided at the top of the box bodies, and is configured to prevent hot air from impacting the box bodies. The container module of the present application may effectively solve the problem of hot air interference through reasonable layout of the box bodies and setting of the baffles without dispersing the layout of the box bodies, and improves the heat dissipation efficiency of the container module, thereby improving the space utilization rate of the data center site.