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Acquisition strengthens product portfolio
CAREL INDUSTRIES HAS ANNOUNCED THE ACQUISITION OF KLINGENBURG GMBH AND KLINGENBURG INTERNATIONAL, LEADING PRODUCERS OF A WIDE RANGE OF PRODUCTS USED MAINLY FOR HEAT RECOVERY IN VENTILATION AND HUMIDIFICATION SYSTEMS, ADIABATIC COOLING AND AIR PURIFICATION.
THE KLINGENBURG GROUP are European leaders in the production and sale of rotary and plate heat exchangers, essential elements in the recovery of heat and therefore in guar- anteeing significant energy savings in venti- lation systems. In particular, the main advantages of rotary technology, making up most of Klingenburg’s business, are associ- ated with the ability to treat large amounts of air while maintaining compactness and high efficiency of the component. They are used in multiple applications: in addition to being used in air handling units in residential and commercial buildings, the rotary heat exchangers are widely used in various indus- trial processes.
Klingenburg also offers solutions for humidi- fication (mainly for indirect adiabatic cooling) and the sanification of the air through UV technology, together with services in support of product solutions offered.
The company has 200 employees and two production facilities in Germany and Poland.
This is in addition to offices in the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States.
LEFT: Acquisition Klingenburg
Funds to support data centre innovations
THE UNITED STATES Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to $42 million in funding to overcome technology barriers asso- ciated with the development of high-perfor- mance energy efficient cooling solutions for data centres.
Used to house computers, storage systems and computing infrastructure, data centres account for approximately two per cent of total US electricity production while data centre
Granholm, said extreme weather events, like the soaring temperatures much of the country experienced this summer, also impact data cen- tres which connect critical computing and net- work infrastructure and must be kept at certain temperatures to remain operational.
Creating solutions to cool data centres effi- ciently and reduce the associated carbon emis- sions supports the technological breakthroughs needed to fight climate change and secure our clean energy future,” she said.
cooling can account for up to 40 per centre energy usage overall.
DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will fund projects that seek to reduce the amount of energy data centres use for cooling to lower the operational carbon footprint asso- ciated with powering and cooling data centres. This funding will sup- port President Joe Biden’s goal to be a net zero carbon emissions econ- omy no later than 2050.
US secretary of energy, Jennifer M.
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ABOVE: US secretary of energy, Jennifer Granholm.
ARPA-E's Cooling Operations Optimised for Leaps in Energy, Reliability, and Carbon Hyperefficiency for Information Processing Systems (COOLERCHIPS) funding program aims to develop highly efficient and reliable cooling systems that will enable a new class of efficient power-dense computa- tional systems, data centres and modular systems.
The program will prioritise four technical categories for cooling
system innovation opportunities including energy efficient cooling solutions for next genera- tion high power density servers and high power density modular data centres that can be oper- ated anywhere efficiently.
The third category is software and modeling tool development to design and optimise data centres’ energy use, CO2 footprint, reliability, and cost, simultaneously.
The final category is facilities and best prac- tices for efficient evaluation and demonstration of transformational technologies developed under the program.
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