Patent ID: 9632547
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: F24F,F28C,G06F,H05K,Y02A,Y02B

Claim:
1. A cooling module for cooling at least one server module configured to house a plurality of servers, the cooling module comprising: a housing having an interior containing air; an intake into the housing; an outlet from the housing; at least one fan configured to move the air from the intake to the outlet; at least one sprayer configured to spray a mist into the air in the interior for evaporative cooling of the interior; and a mist collector for removing at least some of the mist from the air in the interior, wherein the mist collector comprises a plurality of mist collector elements mounted on a support and wherein the support is shiftable from a first position in which the plurality of mist collector elements and the support reside in a first plane and a first portion of the air in the interior moving from the intake to the outlet passes through the plurality of mist collector elements on the support and the mist collector removes a first portion of mist from the first portion of the air, to a second position in which the plurality of mist collector elements and the support reside in a second plane, wherein the first plane is more perpendicular to the air flow direction than the second plane, and a second portion of the air in the interior moving from the intake to the outlet passes through the plurality of mist collector elements on the support, wherein the second portion of the air is less than the first portion of the air and the mist collector removes a second portion of mist, less than the first portion of mist, from the second portion of the air, or the second portion of the air is substantially zero as the air flows around the support and bypasses the plurality of mist collector elements and the mist collector removes substantially no mist.