Method and apparatus for cooling an equipment enclosure through closed-loop, liquid-assisted air cooling in combination with direct liquid cooling
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
H05K-007/20
F28D-015/00
F28F-007/00
출원번호
US-0427384
(2006-06-29)
등록번호
US-7342789
(2008-03-11)
발명자
/ 주소
Hall,Shawn A.
Tian,Shurong
Coteus,Paul W.
Karidis,John P.
Colgan,Evan G.
Guernsey, Jr.,Robert W.
출원인 / 주소
International Business Machines Corporation
대리인 / 주소
Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
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44인용 특허 :
10
초록▼
A method and an apparatus for cooling, preferably within an enclosure, a diversity of heat-generating components, with at least some of the components having high-power densities and others having low-power densities. Heat generated by the essentially relatively few high-power-density components, s
A method and an apparatus for cooling, preferably within an enclosure, a diversity of heat-generating components, with at least some of the components having high-power densities and others having low-power densities. Heat generated by the essentially relatively few high-power-density components, such as microprocessor chips for example, is removed by direct liquid cooling, whereas heat generated by the more numerous low-power or low-watt-density components, such as memory chips for example, is removed by liquid-assisted air cooling in the form of a closed loop comprising a plurality of heating and cooling zones that alternate along the air path.
대표청구항▼
What is claimed is: 1. An apparatus for cooling heat-generating high-power electronic components and low-power electronic components, which are housed in an enclosure, said apparatus comprising: an arrangement for cooling said high-power electronic components by a direct liquid cooling circulation
What is claimed is: 1. An apparatus for cooling heat-generating high-power electronic components and low-power electronic components, which are housed in an enclosure, said apparatus comprising: an arrangement for cooling said high-power electronic components by a direct liquid cooling circulation loop; and a further arrangement for cooling said low-power electronic components by a liquid-assisted air cooling circuit comprising a plurality of heating and cooling zones, and wherein air movers are located in the air flow path of said air cooling circulation loop, said air movers each comprising centrifugal fans, which are arranged to prevent interference with their respective air-streams flowing through said path. 2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said liquid-assisted air cooling circulation loop includes a closed-loop air flow path. 3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least one heat exchanger is arranged in said closed-loop air flow path for transferring heat therefrom to an air-assisting liquid cooling circuit. 4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein quick-connects, which are located at the same vertical space as said heat exchanger facilitate flow of direct cooling liquid through a manifold supply pipe to said direct liquid cooling circulation loop and therefrom to a return line so as to form a vertical space-saving configuration in said enclosure. 5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein said at least one air-to-liquid heat exchanger is located interleaved with rows of packages for cooling the flow of air in each said row passage prior to said flow of air entering a subsequent row passage, said packages comprising blades mounting said heat-generating components and diverse operative components, said rows of blades being attached to at least one side of at least one or more midplanes comprising circuit cards for electrical interconnections. 6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein, referring to an imaginary Cartesian coordinate system having axes x, y, and z, a first stack of said rows of blades and heat exchangers is stacked along the z axis on a-y side of said one or more midplanes that lie in a central plane parallel to the x and z axes, similarly stacking a second stack of said rows of blades and heat exchangers along the z axis on a +y side of said one or more midplanes, a first set of air movers is located at a +z end of said first stack, a first plenum at a +z end of said second stack, locating a second set of air movers at a-z end of said second stack, and a second plenum is located at a-z end of said first stack, such that said flow of air is conveyed, by means of said air movers, along a closed loop comprising, in stream-wise order, said first stack of blades through which air flows toward the +z direction, said first set of air movers into which air flows toward the +z direction and from which it exhausts toward the +y direction, said first plenum into which air flows toward the +y direction and from which it exhausts toward the-z direction, said second stack of blades through which air flows toward the-z direction, said second set of air movers into which air flows toward the-z direction and from which it exhausts toward the-y direction, and finally said second plenum into which air flows toward the-y direction and from which it exhausts toward the +z direction into said first stack, thereby completing said closed loop. 7. An apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein in a blade, the electronic components are mounted on a blade circuit card and further the corresponding power converters for one or more electronic components are mounted on the directly opposite surface of said blade circuit card. 8. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein liquids employed in said liquid-assisted air cooling circulation loop and in said direct liquid cooling circulation loop are separate and distinct from each other throughout their respective flow paths. 9. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein liquids employed in said liquid-assisted air cooling circulation stream along a shared segment of their flow paths. 10. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said centrifugal fans are arranged in an over-and-under, fore-and-aft, orientation in, respectively, upper and lower housings for turning the flow of air in said air circulation loop. 11. An apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein interior surfaces of said enclosure are equipped with acoustic insulation so as to acoustically attenuate the amount of acoustical noise, produced by said centrifugal fans, that is transmitted across said surfaces to the outside of said enclosure. 12. An apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein said air movers include means for diverting the flow of air streaming through said air circulation loop into an alternate path upon failure of a centrifugal fan so as to inhibit an aerodynamic short-circuiting of the remaining centrifugal fans. 13. An apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein said diverting means comprises a pivotable plate for closing an exhaust of the failed centrifugal fan, and further comprises openable louvers formed in a wall between centrifugal fans in each respective housing. 14. An apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein one or more splitter plates bisect a plenum box in said air flow so as to aid air emerging from said lower centrifugal fans more evenly in said plenum box and improve upon cooling of the air-cooled heat generating electronic components in said enclosure. 15. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said low-power components include a plurality of Dual-In-Line Memory Modules (DIMM), said DIMMs being arranged such that a flow of cooling air passes through no more than one DIMM in each respective cooling zone at any time so as to prevent overheating of successive DIMMs by overheated air flows.
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