Patent ID: 9750164
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: F25B,G06F,H05K

Claim:
1. A facility for maintaining electronic equipment at a cool temperature, the facility comprising: a building having an interior and an exterior load wall disposed between the interior of the building and a periphery exterior, the periphery exterior being located outside; a plurality of air conditioning units entirely disposed in the periphery exterior, each adjacent to the exterior load wall and disposed on a ground level support structure, the plurality of air conditioning units receiving heated air and emitting cooled air; a plurality of heated air openings disposed in the exterior load wall, each heated air opening proximate to one of the plurality of air conditioning units; a plurality of return air openings disposed in the exterior load wall, each return air opening proximate to one of the plurality of air conditioning units; a plurality of warm exhaust outlet ducts, each warm exhaust outlet duct formed through one of the heated air openings; a plurality of cool air inlet ducts, each cool air inlet duct formed through one of the return air openings; a plurality of cabinet clusters arranged in an array of at least four cabinet clusters, with the at least four cabinet clusters sharing a common cold aisle, two cabinet clusters on one side of the common cold aisle and another two cabinet clusters on another side of the common cold aisle, and wherein a hot aisle enclosure area of each of the two cabinet clusters are aligned and parallel to the common cold aisle, and wherein the hot aisle enclosure area of each of the another two cabinet clusters are aligned and parallel to the common cold aisle, wherein each cabinet cluster including a plurality of cage cabinets positioned in a back-to-back configuration in two separated rows so that the electronic equipment disposed therein emit heated air in a predetermined direction from the cage cabinets toward the hot aisle enclosure area between the two separated rows of cage cabinets, and wherein an opposite side of the cage cabinets each establish the cold aisle, wherein the hot aisle enclosure area and the cold aisle of each of the plurality of cabinet clusters are aligned: a floor within the interior of the building on which the plurality of cage cabinets in each of the plurality of cabinet clusters are disposed, the floor being within the interior space of the building in a room with at least one interior wall and at least one of the exterior load wall thereby defining an equipment area room; a structurally sound thermal shield providing a contiguous wall around a hot air area above the hot aisle enclosure area at a height above the two separated rows of cage cabinets to define a warm exhaust channel that traps the heated air within the hot aisle enclosure area and causes substantially all the heated air within the hot aisle enclosure area to rise up within the warm exhaust channel for each of the cabinet clusters, wherein the contiguous wall fully surrounds the hot aisle enclosure area from above each of the plurality of cabinet clusters; a warm air escape channel disposed above the warm exhaust channel, the warm air escape channel feeding the heated air to the plurality of air conditioning units through the plurality of warm exhaust outlet ducts; and a cool air channel disposed within the interior of the building above the plurality of plurality of cabinet clusters that delivers cool air from the plurality of air conditioning units to the cool aisle through the plurality of cool air inlet ducts, the cool air channel including a plurality of cold aisle air ducts each having vents disposed proximate a cabinet cluster, wherein each of the plurality of cold aisle air ducts are parallel to each other and parallel to the cool aisle.