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What liquid is used for immersion cooling?
Immersion cooling is a method for cooling data center IT hardware by directly immersing the hardware in a non-conductive liquid such as 3M™ Fluorinert™ Electronic Liquids or 3M™ Novec™ Engineered Fluids. Heat generated by the electronic components is directly and efficiently transferred to the fluid.
Is immersion cooling better?
Immersion cooling is the hot new thing in computer cooling with several key advantages that are winning over more and more converts. It can handle far greater power densities, it operates cleanly and quietly, and it costs much less than traditional air cooling.
What does immersion cooling do?
Liquid immersion cooling is the reduction of heat in hardware through submersion in a dielectric liquid that is thermally conductive. One of the simplest examples of liquid immersion cooling is taking a standard air-cooled computer’s hardware and submerging it in mineral oil.
Do mineral oil PCs stay cool?
It sounds like insanity because it is, indeed, insane. But submerging a computer in mineral oil won’t actually break any of your computer parts or short out any of the electricals because mineral oil doesn’t conduct electricity like water or most other liquids do.
Is Novec 7100 Safe?
It is rated “practically non-toxic” through inhalation. A 90-day inhalation study has helped establish a recommended exposure guideline of 750 ppm for an eight-hour average worker exposure per day. This exposure guideline was established by the American Industrial Hygiene Association.
Can you drink Novec 7100?
Novec is not poisonous. You can drink it, but it won’t do nice things to your digestive tract. If you dip your hands in it (as we did at SC13) it evaporates very quickly, like alcohol.
Is liquid cooling the future?
In this sense, liquid cooling has a place in the future of the data center, but how far into the future depends on several factors: Not all servers are currently compatible with liquid cooling; this may mean greater upfront costs. Liquid cooling is not nearly as common a technology as air-cooled servers.