Switch cabinet arrangement with at least one it rack or switch cabinet housing and with at least one cooling unit, and a corresponding method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12408307-B2
Application number	US-202318226478-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 26, 2023
Priority date	Sep 23, 2019
Publication date	Sep 2, 2025
Grant date	Sep 2, 2025

Abstract

A switch cabinet arrangement and method with at least one IT rack or switch cabinet housing and with at least one cooling device, which has an air-liquid heat exchanger for cooling components accommodated in the IT rack or switch cabinet housing with cooled air, wherein the air-liquid heat exchanger includes a first flow for cooled liquid and a first return for heated liquid, wherein the cooling device includes a liquid-liquid heat exchanger, to the second flow of which the first return of the air-liquid heat exchanger is connected.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A switch cabinet arrangement comprising at least one IT rack or switch cabinet housing through which air is passed for cooling components accommodated in the IT rack or switch cabinet housing, comprising wherein an air-liquid heat exchanger circuit is charged by the air and a liquid passing through the air-liquid heat exchanger is heated; a liquid-liquid heat exchanger having fluid passing through it, the heated liquid from the air-liquid heat exchanger being coupled to the liquid-liquid heat exchanger, with the liquid passing through the liquid-liquid heat exchanger having a boiling point lower than the boiling point of the heated liquid from the air-liquid heat exchanger under standard conditions.

2. The switch cabinet arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the air from outside the switch cabinet arrangement is introduced partially into the at least one IT rack or the switch cabinet housing and partially into a cooling unit housing associated with and fluidically separated from the IT rack or the switch cabinet housing, in which the air-liquid heat exchanger is received.

3. The switch cabinet arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein the air-liquid heat exchanger is arranged in a rear or front door of the IT rack or the switch cabinet housing, the air-liquid heat exchanger having air flowing therethrough which enters the IT rack or the switch cabinet housing at a side opposite to the rear door or the front door.

4. The switch cabinet arrangement according to claim 3 , wherein the IT rack or enclosure comprises an air duct in which the air in its direction of flow after entering the IT rack or enclosure impinges on the components before entering the rear door or front door as air partially heated by the components and impinges on the air-liquid heat exchanger of the second circuit.

5. The switch cabinet arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the air is introduced from outside the switch cabinet arrangement into the at least one IT rack or the switch cabinet housing, the switch cabinet arrangement comprising an air duct in which the air in its flow direction after entering the IT rack or the switch cabinet housing impinges on the components before it impinges on the air-liquid heat exchanger as air partially heated by the components.

6. The switch cabinet arrangement according to claim 1 , air, after passing through the air-liquid heat exchanger is discharged at a temperature to the environment of the enclosure assembly or cooled by a further heat exchanger and recirculated for re-impingement of air to the components.

7. A method for air conditioning a switch cabinet arrangement, comprising:
Subjecting components accommodated in an IT rack or a Switch cabinet housing of the switch cabinet arrangement to air, whereby the air is heated,
Passing the heated air through a first air-liquid heat exchanger, cooling the air and heating a second liquid passed through the first air-liquid heat exchanger, and
Passing the heated second liquid through a liquid-liquid heat exchanger, wherein a first liquid passed through the liquid-liquid heat exchanger of a liquid cooling of the components having a boiling point lower than the boiling point of the second liquid under standard conditions is cooled and the first heated liquid is further heated.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the first further heated liquid is diverted from the liquid-liquid heat exchanger, cooled outside the enclosure assembly, and recirculated as cooled liquid into the first air-liquid heat exchanger.

Assignees

• Rittal Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Himmelhuber Frank
• Matthies Stephan Helmut
• Meyer Andreas

Classifications

• H05K7/20736 Primary

  within cabinets for removing heat from server blades · CPC title

• H05K7/1488

  Cabinets therefor, e.g. chassis or racks or mechanical interfaces between blades and support structures · CPC title

• H04Q1/035

  Cooling of active equipments, e.g. air ducts · CPC title

• H04Q1/025

  Cabinets · CPC title

• H05K7/20818

  within cabinets for removing heat from server blades · CPC title