Puyan Water Ring Vacuum System for Data Center Cooling
Puyan Machinery recently customized a vacuum system for a data technology company to ensure stable operation of its data center cooling system. Against the backdrop of rapid development in the data technology and cloud computing industries, cooling systems in data center server rooms are increasingly reliant on vacuum environments. Recently, Puyan Machinery successfully delivered a customized water ring vacuum system to a data technology company, effectively solving the customer's problems of unstable vacuum levels and low drainage efficiency in their cooling circulation system.
Project Background: High Requirements for Vacuum Equipment in Data Center Cooling Systems
The customer is primarily engaged in data center operations and cloud computing infrastructure services. Its cooling system extensively uses vacuum negative pressure for circulating water degassing, condenser evacuation, and pipeline drainage. The stability of the vacuum level in the cooling system directly affects the temperature control efficiency of the server room and the safety of equipment operation.
The customer's previous vacuum system suffered from insufficient pumping speed, inadequate buffering capacity, and manual drainage operations. Especially during high-temperature seasons, when the cooling system load increased, the original vacuum equipment frequently triggered overheat protection, affecting the cooling performance of the data center. The customer explicitly requested an efficient, intelligent water ring vacuum system with sufficient pumping capacity and buffer volume, as well as automated drainage to minimize manual intervention.
Puyan Solution: Water Ring Pump 2BV2060 + 1.5m³ Buffer Tank + Constant Temperature Water Tank + Puyan Control Panel
After conducting an on-site survey, the Puyan Machinery technical team customized the following configuration based on the operating characteristics of the data center cooling system:
- Core Vacuum Source: Water Ring Pump 2BV2060. This pump features a water-ring design with a compact structure and smooth operation, suitable for extracting gas mixtures containing water vapor. It achieves an ultimate vacuum above -0.085 MPa, meeting the cooling system's requirements for degassing and drainage.
- Buffering System: 1.5m³ buffer tank. The large-volume tank effectively smooths out vacuum fluctuations, ensuring stable pressure at multiple usage points in the cooling circulation. The tank was specially customized to meet the customer's requirements, with a design suitable for long-term continuous operation in the data center.
- Temperature Control: Constant temperature water tank. Provides working fluid at a constant temperature for the water ring pump, ensuring optimal operation of the pump and avoiding pumping efficiency loss or overheat protection caused by temperature fluctuations.
- Control System: Puyan control panel. The panel integrates PLC programmable control. As requested by the customer, both the suction port and the bottom drain port of the buffer tank are equipped with motorized vacuum butterfly valves. All valve switching controls are integrated into the Puyan control panel. Operators can complete suction and drainage operations with a single button on the panel, or set timed automatic drainage, significantly improving the system's automation level. The control panel also features overload, phase-failure, and overheat protection, ensuring safe and reliable operation of the system.
The complete system underwent program testing and airtightness testing before leaving the factory. On-site installation only required connection to the main pipeline, cooling water, and power supply.
Project Results: Stable Vacuum, Automated Drainage, Significantly Improved O&M Efficiency
Since the water ring vacuum system was put into operation, the customer's data center has reported significant improvements:
- Stable Vacuum: During periods of high load on the cooling system, the system vacuum level remained consistently stable, with no exhaust obstruction or temperature control anomalies caused by insufficient vacuum.
- Automated Drainage: With the motorized vacuum butterfly valves at the buffer tank's suction and drain ports integrated into the control panel, remote one-touch operation and timed automatic drainage have been achieved. This has completely eliminated the tedious manual drainage process and reduced the frequency of O&M personnel entering high-risk areas of the server room.
- Reliable Operation: The constant temperature water tank ensures a stable working fluid temperature for the water ring pump, with no further overheat protection shutdown events, guaranteeing continuous operation of the cooling system.
- Easy Maintenance: The water ring pump has a simple structure, and with the protection of the buffer tank and constant temperature water tank, maintenance workload is extremely low.
The customer's O&M manager commented: "The biggest highlight of Puyan's water ring vacuum system is the automated drainage. The control panel directly manages the two motorized butterfly valves, making operation very convenient. Previously, manual drainage was dirty and troublesome; now it's a one-click remote operation."
Why Choose Puyan Machinery's Water Ring Vacuum System?
Puyan Machinery specializes in vacuum pumps and custom vacuum systems. Our core strengths lie in on-demand customization (providing non-standard designs based on air volume, vacuum level, media, control requirements, etc.), our own brand with reliable quality, and rapid response (providing solutions within 24 hours). Besides data center cooling systems, this water ring vacuum system is also widely used in semiconductor, lithium battery vacuum drying, food and pharmaceutical packaging, electronic component handling, shipbuilding, and other industries. If your plant faces issues such as insufficient vacuum, system instability, or the need for a new system, please contact Puyan Machinery for a customized solution.