Emerson Network Power Enhances Liebert XDC Refrigerant Chiller

Emerson (News - Alert) Network Power, a business of Emerson and an enabler of Business-Critical Continuity from grid to chip, has added Liebert iCOM controls to the Liebert XDC refrigerant chiller.

Liebert products and services from Emerson Network Power (News - Alert) are aimed at delivering efficiency without compromise by helping customers optimize their data center infrastructure to reduce costs and deliver high availability.

The Liebert XDC refrigerant chiller, a pumped refrigerant solution, supports the Liebert XD family of high heat density cooling solutions, the Liebert XDV rack-mount, Liebert XDO ceiling-mount, Liebert XDH row-based and Liebert XDR rear door cooling modules. The Liebert XD refrigerant-based cooling modules work as a system to support the hot aisle/cold aisle approach to cooling high density data centers. The addition of Liebert iCOM controls the Liebert XD family of cooling solutions which is believed to increase the flexibility of the data center.

“The enhanced level of communications and control empowers data center and facilities managers to optimize cooling capacity at the rack level, and to make intelligent decisions surrounding their data center operating environment in real-time, without guessing or waiting for a problem to occur,” said Fred Stack, vice president marketing for the Liebert precision cooling business of Emerson Network Power in North America, in a press release.

“With this level of insight, managers can better monitor cooling performance and eliminate hot spots in the rack caused by high density deployments, as well as make strategic decisions on deployment of in-rack servers based on capacity needs,” Stack added.

As indicated, the Liebert XDC with iCOM is available in North America, South America, Europe, China, India, Middle East and Africa.

Company officials also clarified that by providing refrigerant circulation and control in applications where the building’s chilled water system is not available, the Liebert XDC with iCOM can cool more than 30 kW per rack and 160 kW per system. Also, the release indicated that Liebert XDC with iCOM, is designed to support the Liebert XD Smart Modules, which are cooling modules that are compatible with the Liebert XD family and feature integrated control boards that enable modulation of cooling capacity and higher efficiency performance. 

The Liebert XDC with iCOM and the Liebert XDP with iCOM is said to employ a controller-area network (CAN-bus) configuration, enabling a new communications network bridging a data center’s building management system (BMS) or data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system to Liebert XD Smart Module level.

In related news, a new range of 5 watt USB wall mount ac-dc adapters, the DCH5 series, was recently launched by Emerson Network Power.