Data Center Water Treatment Management

Water cooling systems for data centers use a large amount of water. Chardon Laboratories provides services to treat this water to increase efficiency and to maintain your systems. This is with good reason, as water is significantly more efficient at transferring heat than air in data centers. As a result of this, data centers are one of the top ten industries for water usage. Common efficient equipment utilized in data centers often includes the following: cooling towers, closed loops, chillers, and heat exchangers. Chardon Labs provides chemical water treatment to maintain all of these.

These systems keep your data center running efficiently and optimize the life of your essential equipment assets. However, if your water is not properly treated, it can wreak havoc as it enters the cooling system. Issues like scaling and corrosion can quickly colonize your water, obstructing heat transfer and increasing and energy usage.

Reliable data center water solutions can keep your water free from harmful contaminants and debris. At Chardon Labs, we provide efficient, expert service to protect your data center infrastructure from overheating or failure. Our commitment to custom water treatment programs ensures your facility will receive a tailored approach to meet your specific needs.

Data Center Water Treatment Challenges

Like many other facilities that rely on cooling towers for their operations, your data center water system can experience common problems without proper maintenance, including:

Scale: Scale refers to mineral buildup that occurs when water comes in contact with equipment. Scale can accumulate and affect cooling tower heat transfer and water flow.
Corrosion: Contaminated water can cause the metal components in your water system to degrade or corrode. Poor water quality and oxygen exposure can also lead to corrosion.
Airborne contaminants: Dust, pollen, sand, smog and soot can get mixed in with your cooling tower’s water supply, eventually impeding heat transfer and increasing operating costs.
Microbiological growth: Some cooling towers and water systems can support microbial growth, including viruses, bacteria, algae and fungi. These microorganisms can restrict water flow, plug distribution holes, create foul odors and significantly affect performance.

These issues can impact the life span of your cooling tower and water system and, therefore, your data center equipment. A data center water treatment provider can effectively manage the quality of your reclaimed or recycled water supply sources.

Types of Data Centers That Benefit From Water Treatment

Data centers require water treatment systems to protect sensitive equipment, such as absorbing heat and transferring it away from components. A variety of data centers can benefit from a tailored approach to water treatment solutions, including:

Cloud data centers: Cooling systems help cloud data centers maintain cooling efficiency for server farms.
Enterprise data centers: Engineers in enterprise data centers can use water to maintain optimal conditions for critical business operations, such as dissipating heat.
Colocation data centers: Water-cooling technology enables colocation data centers to provide reliable infrastructure for multiple clients without gaps in performance or reliability.
Edge data centers: Smaller, localized facilities like Edge data centers use water to implement effective cooling methods and manage temperatures.
Container data centers: These modular data centers are often deployed for their versatility and quick response, such as on disaster recovery sites to provide critical components that require reliable water cooling systems.

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Types of Data Centers That Benefit From Water Treatment

How to Reduce Water & Energy Usage in Data Centers

Optimizing data center energy and water efficiency is important to keep costs low and to reduce your environmental footprint. Furthermore, treating water allows it to be reused multiple times without causing your equipment to develop issues such as corrosion, scaling, bacteria, and suspended solids. This treated water will cost less energy to cool as descaling chemicals will remove solids in the water and scale buildup that impedes heat transfer.

Remote Monitoring Controller Benefits

One reason to choose us for your water treatment needs is our remote monitoring option that gives you full insight into your system, even when you’re away from the site. Remote monitoring and automated controllers reduce labor costs by automatically performing some various water treatment tasks. They also give you the ability to monitor your system off-site. It gives you the tools you need to view your system’s temperature, conductivity, pH, and flow. It automates the feeding of chemicals to make sure your system is always operating as it should. Additionally, it provides history tools to monitor changes. These wireless systems protect your expensive equipment and make the best use of them. Chardon Labs’ customers value the time savings and useful information that remote monitoring systems and automated controllers provide.

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Our Water Treatment Services for Data Centers

At Chardon Labs, we know how important it is to increase efficiency in your water cooling systems. No matter what size data center you manage, you need to rely on your equipment to transfer heat and keep your operations running smoothly. Here’s what you can expect from our data center cooling tower treatment options.

Cooling tower water treatment: Cooling tower chemical treatment services can help protect your data center water from contamination, rust and scaling. We offer a full line of corrosion and scale inhibitors as well as cleaning services to remove existing biological growth or rust from your cooling tower. We can also implement preventative treatment to minimize the formation of bacteria and mineral buildup.
Boiler water treatment: Some data centers require boilers to supply hot water to heating systems. At Chardon Labs, we can maintain your boilers for longevity by preventing scale and corrosion buildup. We’ll conduct a survey of your current system to determine testing and chemical treatment frequency.
Closed loop water treatment: Facilities with closed loop systems may experience leaks without ongoing maintenance. Our ISO-certified technicians can prevent contamination in your water supply caused by damage or leaks in your system. Proper treatment is essential for minimizing the risk of freezing, oxygen putting and corrosion. We have the expertise to address any issues in your water or piping, regardless of the type of closed loop system you have.
Legionella treatment: Certain bacteria are prone to growing in warm, stagnant water, including Legionella bacteria. These bacteria can grow quickly in large water systems like cooling towers and are quite resistant to standard disinfectant methods. Breathing in water droplets containing Legionella bacteria can result in Legionnaire’s disease and cause pneumonia symptoms. We offer Legionella testing and custom water management plans to control and hinder Legionella at your data center.

Our Water Treatment Services for Data Centers

Advantages of Our Water Treatment for Your Data Centers

Data centers require significant amounts of water on-site for computer room air condition units and cooling equipment. Customized data center cooling system management from Chardon Labs can protect your facility by:

Improving equipment performance: The water you use in your data center cooling system must be clean and free of contaminants to work efficiently. Water treatment programs can help extend the longevity of your equipment and keep it running at optimal levels.
Increasing cost savings: Contaminated water can lead to mineral accumulation and bacterial growth, which can hinder cooling efficiency. Clogged pipes and filters can run up your energy and water costs, especially if they result in a system failure. Professional water treatment can help you lower operational and energy costs associated with equipment damage. Additionally, water treatment solutions enable you to reuse your water several times without leaving behind solids or scale buildup.
Enhancing product quality and safety: Water quality issues can come from a variety of sources, often making it challenging to determine the root cause. Optimizing your data center water quality with Chardon Labs can help you maintain superior performance and safety for those you manage. Professional testing and monitoring can also identify and control the presence of Legionella bacteria and other safety hazards.
Eliminating costly downtime: Your data center infrastructure is vulnerable to cooling system failure and overheating. The cost of an outage is significant both from lost business and equipment damage. Chardon Labs has been providing cooling water treatment for over 55 years. Your data center is important, and we are here to protect it.

Book a Custom Data Center Survey With Chardon Labs Today

Keeping your cooling tower and water systems clean is nonnegotiable for maintaining your data center equipment. At Chardon Labs, we understand how time-consuming it can be to manually monitor your complex cooling systems while you have other business priorities. Our highly trained, ISO-certified technicians can perform an assessment of your system, identify risk factors and recommend immediate and long-term water management solutions.

We can provide a free survey with a tailored approach for your data center’s design. We factor in cooling load, water quality, equipment types, building size, controllers, pumps, recommended chemicals and more. Also, Chardon Labs provides regular service visits, and we guarantee we will show up. Let us maximize your data center’s cooling water efficiency and maintain your equipment with our water treatment. We can also help you reduce water and energy consumption, potentially resulting in higher cost savings. Instead of spending your time and money on repairing damaged equipment, rely on Chardon Labs for your preventative system maintenance.

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