Patent ID: 8731733

Claim:
A system for managing a structure having cooling fluid that is to flow around and absorb heat from components contained in the structure, said system comprising: a plurality of separate cooling mechanisms to absorb heat from the cooling fluid, at least two of said plurality of separate cooling mechanisms having a different level of a metric with respect to each other, wherein one of the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms is a passive cooling mechanism and another one of the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms is an active cooling mechanism, wherein the passive cooling mechanism includes a first cooling medium and the active cooling mechanism includes a second cooling medium, and wherein the first cooling medium is separated from second cooling medium; a controller to implement the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms in a staged manner to remove heat from the cooling fluid, wherein the staged manner comprises implementing the passive cooling mechanism first and implementing the active cooling mechanism second, to manage the structure, and wherein the controller is further to define a plurality of setpoint ranges of the active cooling mechanism that respectively correspond to different risks of damage to the components, wherein the controller is to receive an instruction to implement a selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges and to implement the selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges in controlling the active cooling mechanism.