Baltimore Aircoil Company (BAC) has launched the Trillium Adiabatic Cooler TRFS, a double-stacked cooling unit designed for hyperscale and colocation data centers. The system combines adiabatic cooling with patented intelligent controls to provide additional cooling capacity when dry cooling alone is insufficient.
The TRFS is designed to achieve lower fluid temperatures, reduce peak power demand and power usage effectiveness (PUE), and limit water consumption. It supports high-density chip cooling applications and helps reduce air recirculation in large installations. According to BAC, its higher capacity per unit compared with dry coolers can reduce the number of units, connections, and installation time.
The cooler supports water-cooled chiller, chiller-less, and direct-to-CDU configurations. Factory-installed adiabatic pads and automated controls activate additional cooling when required, balancing water and energy consumption. BAC states that the system can also enable chillers to be downsized or eliminated in certain applications.
Additional features include optional Whisper Quiet fans providing sound reductions of up to 13 dBA, automatic night-quiet operation, and redundancy across fans, motors, and drives. The unit also incorporates service platforms and pre-programmed controls with a UL enclosure. A pre-configured design is intended to shorten engineering cycles, while lower steel support requirements can simplify installation.
“Data center operators are being asked to meet more aggressive temperature, power, and water targets on increasingly compressed schedules,” said Dustin Cohick, Market Leader – Americas Data Center at BAC. “The Trillium™ Adiabatic Cooler TRFS gives them a way to use water only when it matters most and gain meaningful capacity and efficiency benefits in return. It’s already operating at multiple hyperscale and colocation data centers.”
BAC also offers the Trillium Dry Cooler for water-free operation.
