Patent ID: 9591792
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: F24F,F28D,H05K,Y02B

Claim:
1. A method for cooling a data center comprising: drawing outside air at ambient conditions into an entry zone of the data center; spraying atomized water into the outside air downstream of the entry zone; providing an evaporation zone where the atomized water evaporates and cools the outside air to cool air; directing the cool air into a rack zone positioned downstream of the evaporation zone that comprises a plurality of computer racks arranged in a plurality of substantially parallel rows, wherein the rack zone is in fluid communication with the evaporation zone, wherein the outside air is drawn into the entry zone with a plurality of fans arranged in a grid of parallel rows and parallel columns, and through a plurality of atomizers arranged in a grid of parallel rows and parallel columns, where the grid of the plurality of fans defines a first plane in parallel with a second plane defined by the grid of the plurality of atomizers, the first and second planes in parallel with a third plane defined by an outside air intake, wherein each row of the plurality of parallel rows comprises two or more of the plurality of fans, and each column of the plurality of parallel columns comprises two or more of the plurality of fans, and the entry zone comprises a human-occupiable workspace defined between an outside air opening in a building of the data center and the plurality of fans arranged in the grid of parallel rows and parallel columns, and between a floor of the building of the data center and a ceiling of the building of the data center, and between walls of the building of the data center.