Container data center and ventilating system thereof
View Patent ↗An exemplary container data center includes a container, servers received in the container; and a ventilating system for cooling the servers. The ventilating system includes a filter, an exhaust pipe and a blower. The filter includes a chamber and filtering fluid received in the chamber for dissolving dust in ambient air. The chamber defines an air inlet for entering the ambient air and an air outlet. The exhaust pipe has one end coupled to the air outlet of the filter and another end communicating an interior of the container. The blower drives the ambient air out of the filter to flow along the exhaust pipe to the container to cool the servers.
1. A container data center, comprising:
a container;
a plurality of servers received in the container; and
a ventilating system comprising:
a filter comprising a chamber and filtering fluid received in the chamber, the chamber defining an air inlet for entry of ambient air and an air outlet, the filtering fluid for trapping dust in the ambient air;
an exhaust pipe having one end coupled to the air outlet of the filter and another end communicating an interior of the container; and
a fan for driving the ambient air out of the filter to flow along the exhaust pipe to the container to cool the servers.
2. The container data center of claim 1 , wherein the filtering fluid is pure water.
3. The container data center of claim 1 , wherein the air inlet and the air outlet are formed on a top side of the chamber.
4. The container data center of claim 3 , wherein the air inlet and the air outlet are respectively located adjacent to opposite lateral sides of the container, a protrusion extends down from a central portion of the top side of the container towards a bottom side of the chamber, an inlet channel and an outlet channel are respectively defined at opposite sides of the protrusion, the inlet channel is aligned with the air inlet, and the outlet channel is aligned with the air outlet.
5. The container data center of claim 4 , wherein a liquid level of the filtering fluid is lower than the protrusion, and a gap is defined between the filtering fluid and the protrusion intercommunicating the inlet channel and the outlet channel.
6. The container data center of claim 5 , wherein an end surface of the protrusion facing the gap is uneven.
7. The container data center of claim 4 , wherein the protrusion expands from the top side towards the bottom side of the chamber, the inlet channel converges downwards, and the outlet channel diverges upwards.
8. The container data center of claim 4 , wherein a plurality of baffles is formed in the outlet channel, and overlaps partly in a central portion of the outlet channel.
9. The container data center of claim 1 , wherein the fan is fixed on the container with an inlet thereof coupled to the exhaust pipe and an outlet thereof coupled to the container.
10. The container data center of claim 1 , wherein the chamber defines a fluid inlet for injecting the filtering fluid and a fluid outlet for exhausting polluted filtering fluid.
11. A ventilating system for cooling a container data center, the ventilating system comprising:
a filter comprising a chamber and filtering fluid received in the chamber, the chamber defining an air inlet for entry of ambient air and an air outlet, the filtering fluid for trapping dust in the ambient air;
an exhaust pipe having one end coupled to the air outlet of the filter and another end adapted for exhausting the ambient air to the container data center; and
a fan for driving the ambient air out of the filter to flow along the exhaust pipe toward the another end of the exhaust pipe.
12. The ventilating system of claim 11 , wherein the filtering fluid is pure water.
13. The ventilating system of claim 11 , wherein the air inlet and the air outlet are formed on a top side of the chamber.
14. The ventilating system of claim 13 , wherein the air inlet and the air outlet are respectively located adjacent to opposite lateral sides of the container, a protrusion extends down from a central portion of the top side towards a bottom side of the chamber, an inlet channel and an outlet channel are respectively defined at opposite sides of the protrusion, the inlet channel is aligned with the air inlet, and the outlet channel is aligned with the air outlet.
15. The ventilating system of claim 14 , wherein a liquid level of the filtering fluid is lower than the protrusion, and a gap is defined between the filtering fluid and the protrusion intercommunicating the inlet channel and the outlet channel.
16. The ventilating system of claim 15 , wherein an end surface of the protrusion facing the gap is uneven.
17. The ventilating system of claim 14 , wherein the protrusion expands from the top side towards the bottom side, the inlet channel converges downwards, and the outlet channel diverges upwards.
18. The ventilating system of claim 14 , wherein a plurality of baffles is formed in the outlet channel, and overlaps partly in a central portion of the outlet channel.
19. The ventilating system of claim 11 , wherein the fan is disposed in such a manner than an inlet thereof coupled to the exhaust pipe.
20. The ventilating system of claim 11 , wherein the chamber defines a fluid inlet for injecting the filtering fluid and a fluid outlet for exhausting polluted filtering fluid.