Heat Recovery – SCHNABEL AG presses ahead with „Green IT”

May 3, 2011 - PRLog -- Apart from the final consumer, data centres are the biggest “power guzzlers” of the IT branch. All over the world, energy that is required for data centres, their cooling and supplies increases rapidly. The engineers of SCHNABEL AG have now developed a method for cooling data centres, that allows reducing their power consumption drastically – a new step towards “Green IT”.

Between 35 and 50 per cent of data centres’ energy costs are incurred by their cooling. Environment-friendly methods, which produce cooling energy cost-effectively and efficiently, can help to cut operational costs. SCHNABEL AG’s new method of heat recovery is able to even halve the power consumption for cooling.
Heat recovery uses the free waste heat of servers, turns it into thermal energy, which is then reintroduced into the heating system. Thus, further rooms, offices or control rooms are heated by means of cooling, using renewable energy.
The engineers of SCHNABEL AG are now using modern machines with a special feature: instead of working with the usual mixture of glycol and water, pure water is used in the heat recovery system. This is cheaper and does neither contain hazardous materials nor chemical additives. Next to the environmental sustainability, the method also offers economic advantages as investments in restraint systems for the hazard materials are cut. Furthermore, the waste heat can be dissipated more efficiently with water than with conventional glycol mixtures. This again reduces the energy consumption for refrigeration. With regard to data centres, SCHNABEL AG is a pioneer of this method.
The German Central Bank is the first customer that will benefit from the technique in their new data centre in Frankfurt am Main. The building has been topped out in February 2011.

For almost 40 years now, SCHNABEL AG has provided comprehensive consulting and planning services for the construction of secure and available infrastructures for IT and telecom technology.  Our projects cover a wide spectrum which includes weak-point and risk analysis, security and availability concepts, building services engineering, and architect/engineer (A/E) services for data centres, switch centres and server rooms.  SCHNABEL AG’s team of specialists includes internationally experienced and highly motivated engineers, technicians and sales engineers whose professional qualities are highly regarded in the field. .  Our client base consists of renowned banks, insurance companies and their subsidiaries, voice, data and internet providers as well as medium-sized and major industrial companies. SCHNABEL AG actively cooperates with national and international firms from the data centre sector to identify new trends and find solutions for current problems. Today’s issues include the visualization of thermal loads, prevention of hotspots, network analysis, Green IT and energy efficiency.