DATA CENTRE

HUMIDIFICATION
& COOLING

Humidification and Evaporative Cooling

 TRUSTED TECHNOLOGY
Condair humidifiers are used in data
centres around the world to provide
humidity control, prevent electrostatic
discharge (ESD) or offer high capacity,
low cost evaporative cooling.
Some of the world’s largest brands put
their trust in Condair humidification
systems to help them fulfil their data
centres’ environmental control
strategies.

Facebook, Sweden
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HSBC Bank, UK Yandex, Finland
Royal Bank of Scotland, UK Magnit, Russia

Bell, Canada Microsoft, Ireland Barclays Bank, UK IBM, Belgium Colt, Belgium

CGI Group, Canada Amazon, Ireland Citi Group, UK Proximus, Belgium

Hewlett Packard, Canada Facebook, Ireland Leibnitz Rechenzentrum, Germany

Microsoft, US
RBC Royal Bank, Canada Deutsche Flugsicherung, Germany
Digital Realty, US Alibaba, China
Ebay, US KKB, Turkey
Nextfort, US Hewlett Packard, US China Telecom, China NHN, South Korea
Apple, US Garanti Bank, Turkey
Avago, US AT&T Mobile, US China Construction Bank, China
Facebook, US
Tianjin Sai De Data Centre, China
Megacable, Mexico Shenzen Stock Exchange, China
The People’s Bank of China, China
Agricultural Bank of China, China

Leboguang Legislative Council, South Africa

Metronode, Australia

GLOBAL EXPERTISE, LOCAL SOLUTIONS

Condair has manufacturing facilities in
Asia, North America and Europe as well
as sales operations in 19 countries and
distributors in over 40 more.
The company has been serving the
global data centre industry for more
than 25 years. It has a dedicated Data
Centre Business Development Team
that draws expertise from all corners
of the organisation, benefiting clients
no matter where they, or their projects,
are located.
Regional R&D departments work with
client project teams to develop bespoke
solutions, while specialist Condair
service engineering teams provide the
comprehensive maintenance support
critical environments require.
Condair’s experience across many
major global data centre projects is
brought to bear from initial concept
discussions through to installation,
commissioning and beyond.
 EVAPORATIVE COOLING
Improving PUE with low energy cooling

A single Condair adiabatic humidifier air alone is too warm to meet the These low energy cooling techniques
can deliver up to 680kW of evaporative required internal conditions. can significantly reduce or even
cooling while operating on less than eliminate the need for mechanical
1kW of electricity. Condair humidifiers are used to cooling in data centres with a resultant
deliver low energy evaporative cooling drop in PUE.
This technology increases the cooling directly to incoming fresh air, as well as
capacity of a data centre’s ventilation being incorporated into indirect
system and extends the use of free air evaporative cooling systems.
cooling into periods when the outside

HUMIDIFICATION
Maintaining ASHRAE standards and combating ESD

In its guidelines for data centre design, In order to reach the ASHRAE standard, For data centres using free air cooling
ASHRAE recommends maintaining a data centres in most temperate climates in cold regions, high capacity, low
humidity level of between 40-60%RH will require humidification during the energy adiabatic humidification is a
and specifies an allowable range of 8- winter months. must in order to remain within the
80%RH (see fig. 1). ASHRAE window.
Relative Humidity

90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30%

Fig 1
25 (77)
25 (77)

A3 A4
Dew Point Temperature - ˚C (˚F)

Wet Bulb 20 (68)

A2 20 (68)
Temperature
˚C (˚F)

15 (59)
A1 15 (59)

10 (50)
10 (50)

5 (41) Recommended
5 (41)
0 (32)
0 (32)

0 (32) 5 (41) 10 (50) 15 (59) 20 (68) 25 (77) 30 (86) 35 (95) 40 (104) 45 (113)

Dry Bulb Temperature - ˚C (˚F)

© ASHRAE graphic reformatted by Condair

SOLUTIONS FOR DATA CENTRES
Condair has a comprehensive range of
humidification and evaporative cooling
products to suit any data centre’s
environmental control system.
From an individual in-room steam
humidifier to large in-duct evaporative
systems, refurbishments of air
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handling units to newly constructed
ON-SITE CONSULTATION
buildings or modular data centres.
Condair has the technology and
expertise to provide the ideal solution.

Evaporative humidification High pressure humidification

Steam humidification Hybrid humidification

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02/2018