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Heating with Chilled Water
The first question to be asked is how can you do it? Let's look at a modern data center that is using sensible only cooling units in the data center. A current example with a confidential client is using 75 deg. F chilled water supply to make 80.6 Deg. F
Dedicated Outside Air with Sensible Cooling
DOA w/ TSC DEFINED • Decoupling Temperature and Humidity Control • Dedicated Outside Air Unit: Dual Heat Wheel • Terminal Sensible Cooling • Terminal units designed for the application • Passive chilled beams • Active chilled beams

R. Stephen Spinazzola, PEShumate Engineering, PLLC 5G promises the transfer of mass data at unprecedented speeds, enabling innovation that’s only been imagined so far to be seen. Visions of the IoT connecting machines and their learnings through everyday AI are still elusive because the 5G ecosystem is not fully realized,

Adiabatic Cooling for Data Centers

R. Stephen Spinazzola, PE, LEED APShumate Engineering, PLLC Adiabatic cooling, the reduction in temperature when air pressure is lowered, is well known to all, and is witnessed in nature. For instance, stand near a waterfall on a hot day and experience a refreshing drop in temperature- that’s adiabatic cooling. A

Electromagnetic Pulse and its Impact on the Design of Mission Critical Facilities

R. Stephen Spinazzola, PE, LEED APShumate Engineering, PLLC Our understanding of electromagnetic pulse energy in its many forms and permutations has been around since we have studied and understood lightning. The energy emitted is more than the electric charge, and there is an accompanying magnetic pulse that can cause damage

Wi-Fi 6 and 5G and their Impact on Mission Critical Facilities

R. Stephen Spinazzola, PE, LEED APShumate Engineering, PLLC With the recognized advantages of 5G as will be discussed, and the increased speed of Wi-Fi-6, a convergence of technologies offers data center designers, owners, and operators a new high speed super-highway, with a lot less copper and fiber. 5G and Wi-Fi-6