Revolutionising the cooling of data centres
Saving over 50% of cooling energy costs
In a world first, we created an innovative new heat removal system using oscillations to passively cool data centres. Our patented Passive Cooling system reduces power consumption and carbon emissions by over 50%. The system works by capturing and converting unwanted heat into fluid vibrations. Multiple patented fins convert these fluid vibrations to mechanical ones to passively dissipate the unwanted heat, maintaining the required cooling temperature with less carbon and less cost. Making power-hungry industrial AC and condenser units obsolete.
How it works
Our patented Passive Cooling system consists of a chamber filled with bi-fluids of different densities and thermal properties. When heat enters the chamber, a phase change occurs with one of the fluids. This interacts with the second fluid to create fluid vibrations, converting thermal energy from the heat into fluid vibrations.
An array of protruding internal and external heat fins in the chamber capture the fluid vibrations and convert them into mechanical oscillations. The resultant effect passively dissipates the unwanted heat by moving ambient air around it. This motion enables the system to provide the required cool environment to keep data centres servers working within their narrow temperature range.
Minimal power is required to circulate the heat to the Passive Cooling system from the data centre. The system is further reinforced with top-up chillers to give additional cooling capacities when the ambient temperature reaches above the operational temperatures of a data centre.
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Advantages of our innovative solution
Power & Carbon Savings
Where traditional chiller units & compressors account for up to 50% of total energy & carbon consumption. Our technology enables power-hungry data centres to reduce their overall power consumption.
Levy mitigation
Industry group UKDC are committed to their members reducing their climate footprint or paying a levy. Our technology reduces the levy obligation by an outstanding 92%.
Strong ROI
Just in power savings alone, our technology will deliver a 45% Internal Rate of Return compared to best-in-class traditional cooling.
Modular and flexible
Designed to be a modular system to meet end users’ requirements. It can be scaled by adding or subtracting modules.
Re-routing energy
Power-constrained data centres can re-route saved electricity to additional server capacity, increasing revenue and margin.
New-build & retrofit ready
Retrofitting is possible without disrupting operations & delivers compelling cost savings to existing operations.
The numbers
>50%
Energy savings across cooling power in a UK data centre with the application of our passive cooling system.
100
Tonnes of CO2 saved by one of our 120kW passive cooling units in 1 year.
25%
Overall total energy saving costs for a UK data centre.
A world-first installation with iomart
Katrick Technologies has established a partnership with iomart PLC. Installed at iomart’s Glasgow data centre in October 2021 our Passive Cooling system is a world-first example in helping the data centre industry on its way to carbon neutrality.
Read more about our work with iomart in our press release.
Data centres made efficient
Data centres are soon set to be one of the largest energy consumers globally, as our world continues its journey to digitisation and the cloud. By 2030, it’s expected that data centres will be responsible for over 8,000 TWh of consumption (Nature, 2018). And their biggest bi-product is heat. Server rooms require constant cooling to maintain operating temperatures, resulting in significant energy costs. Our Passive Cooling solution can make data centres more carbon-friendly with lower running costs.
“Data centres are essential to a more connected, digital future, but the environmental impact of the sector is something the industry has to come to terms with. Through projects like this, we are able to play an active role in taking steps towards a greener future for the tech industry.”
— Reece Donovan, CEO of iomart