SaltMaker AirBreather Evaporator Crystallizer
Open-to-atmosphere evaporator, operating at low temperatures to concentrate brine.
Data Centre Cooling
Efficient and reliable solutions that maximize water usage effectiveness
Saltworks delivers reliable solutions for data centre cooling that maximize uptime and energy efficiency while helping meet water sustainability goals. Our modular, low footprint systems can optimize cooling cycles, reduce scaling, and minimize wastewater disposal volumes.
Data Centre Cooling & Water
Data centres require reliable cooling systems to ensure consistent operation and maintain critical uptime. As data centres become larger with increased computing power density, their thermal management needs are also increasing.
Data centres have already made great strides toward sustainability by reducing energy consumption. Their cooling systems also use large amounts of water, so water sustainability is increasingly important, especially in areas facing water shortages. By implementing smart energy- and water-efficient cooling systems, operators can increase their Power and Water Usage Effectiveness (PUE & WUE) to achieve best practice standards.
Cooling Tower Expertise
Data centres commonly use cooling towers to reject heat. As coolant water evaporates, total dissolved solids (TDS) and scaling ions accumulate in the cooling system, resulting in the need to ‘blow down’ the remaining water and replace it with fresh water.
Saltworks’ innovations for improving cooling tower performance and reliability include:
- Safely increasing cycles before blowdown by measuring scaling ions with advanced real-time ScaleSense sensors
- Further boosting cycles by targeting and removing scaling ions with BrineRefine precision chemical treatment
- Treating blowdown to recover freshwater for reuse while minimizing discharge volume with XtremeRO membrane systems and SaltMaker thermal systems
Meeting Your Project Needs
Saltworks is ready to deliver solutions for today’s sophisticated data centre water needs. We provide comprehensive pilot testing options and full-scale system delivery. As a manufacturer of membrane, thermal, and chilled concentrators, as well as robotized chemical treatment systems, we are uniquely positioned to provide innovative, robust, and low-footprint data centre cooling solutions with optimized economics.
Learn how we can help your data centre meet energy and water efficiency targets. Send us your project details for an assessment.
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