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Technology to transform data centre cooling
LEFT: The cooling technology was developed by Nokia Bell Labs.
ways been important areas of innovation at Nokia.
“By collaborating with Innventure, our hugely versatile cooling technology can be offered to a broad range of companies in different industries to meet the challenge of heat densities in data centres and telecom networks while lowering energy consumption,” Nihtila said.
Innventure founder and CEO, Bill Haskell, said Nokia Bell Labs has been developing the new technology for more than a decade.
“This innovative technology addresses an acute market need across the entire spectrum of networking and computing sites,” he said.
“It is positioned to disrupt the cooling indus- try as it exists today with flexible solutions that can be widely deployed for data centres and telecom.”
Lab leader for optical systems and device research at Nokia Bell Labs, Theodore Sizer, said the solutions will enable cooling of computing systems with high heat densities, at low energy consumption and with very little complexity.
“This advancement will help data centres con- tinue to grow their computing capacity while be- coming more energy efficient,” he said.
The collaboration between Nokia and In- nventure follows the announcement in 2019 that the two companies would work together to commercialise Nokia’s technology and in- tellectual property in areas beyond Nokia’s core business.
NOKIA AND INVENTURE have revealed plans to commercialise high-performance cool- ing technology developed by Nokia Bell Labs for data centres.
Innventure has established a new company, Accelsius, which has acquired the rights to the cooling technology from Nokia and will be re- sponsible for its further development and com- mercialisation.
The groundbreaking, scalable cooling tech- nology provides cooling direct to the chip or oth- er heat sources.
A passive two-stage coolant circulation pro- cess enables reliable, energy efficient heat trans- fer and dissipation from high density heat sourc- es, without using pumps.
The simple to install, energy efficient and compact cooling solution is adaptable for a broad range of critical electronic equipment and can be deployed at any scale, from a single server to large data centres.
Nokia’s vice president of patent transactions and external alliances, Jukka Nihtila, said energy efficient networks and reliable cooling have al-
Daikin invests in VRV systems
DAIKIN EUROPE HAS invested $A19.57 mil- lion (13 million euros) to start the production of VRV systems at its Turkish factory.
Production of the VRVs, which are mainly aimed at the Turkish and Middle Eastern mar- kets, began this month.
The investment decision is based on Daikin’s strategy to manufacture close to the market, which shortens supply lead times and enables the company to respond to demand in a flexi- ble manner.
The Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region is set to see strong growth, particularly demand for heat pumps.
VRV systems are air conditioning appliances which can heat or cool medium to large com- mercial buildings.
RIGHT: Daikin’s factory in Turkey is equipped with the latest cutting edge technology.
They use heat pump technology and allow multiple indoor units to be con- nected to one outdoor unit.
VRV allows each room to be heat-
ed or cooled individually rather than a full building at once, realising considerable high- er energy efficiencies.
Daikin Europe vice president, Hiromitsu Iwasaki, said its Turkish factory is equipped with the latest cutting edge technology.
They use the Module Line principle, which was designed by Daikin Industries of Japan.
Iwasaki said each production line consists of individual four-metre modules for each pro-
duction process, such as assembly, refrigerant filling, inspection and packaging, depending on the factory's production volume and produc- tion items.
He said it has been introduced at Daikin’s factory in Japan, the United States and other countries to standardise production for uni- form, high-quality production.
The factory has also been equipped with an energy saving exhaust-heat-recovery system. ✺
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