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Chloride promises breakthrough UPS efficiency levels

Tony Chan | October 1, 2009 | 0 Comments

Power technology specialist Chloride is claiming a major breakthrough in efficiency with its Trinergy UPS solution. Chloride CEO, Tim Cobbold told Green Telecom Live that Trinergy now introduces a new modular architecture, so customers can deploy what they need today and scale up when they grow, as well as new capabilities that turn on the UPS only when it is needed depending on the quality and availability of power.

“When you look at the efficiency of the equipment – particularly in the data centre environment, people will quote efficiency numbers, but the efficiency varies dependent on the load. One of the consequences from the way we have packaged the solution is that it runs at much higher efficiency, essentially at all loads,” Cobbold said. “Whereas many of the efficiency levels that are quoted by the more traditionally technologies – it is always the highest efficiency that is quoted, which is always a range at the highest load. Actually when people go to size up their data centres, they build large margins in their build ups so the units never see the loads represented at maximum efficiency.”

According to Cobbold, Trinergy now runs at between 95%-99% efficiency at down to 20% load.

One technology behind the new system is something called, ‘vector control’ – developed by Siemens’ UPS division, which Chloride purchased earlier. Vector control is essentially some software that monitors the power through the UPS system, allowing users to set parameters for power quality and capacity.

What makes Trinergy a breakthrough is a new DSP – a faster processor that now provides instantaneous review of the electrical wave form data to the vector control software, enabling it to react in real time to changing operating requirements. That capability means that Trinergy can now closely match the power requirements of the equipment by turning itself on or off.

3D ARCHITECTURE
At the same time, Trinergy now also comes with a modular design for both efficiency gains and better redundancy. The system now features what the company calls, ‘three dimensional’ backup. Each unit is vertically integrated into a cabinet, which then can be horizontally integrated with other cabinets to increase capacity. Each row of cabinets can also be integrated with other rows of cabinets to further increase capacity.

Obviously, all the units work together and act as one to form a single UPS infrastructure. In this way, data centre operators can deploy the units that they need for their current load and then scale the physical units up as they need. And by using the improved vector control system, the platform now operates only when it is needed.

The Trinery solution will now serve the growing trend for hosted environment.

“For hosting, this is the perfect solution, because any hosting data centre, at the beginning, it is almost empty and it gets fill over months and years later. This gives the operator the ability to size their UPS according to their current load requirement, instead of having to put in a UPS that supports the facility’s full capacity that might be reached in 2 or 3 years,” Cobbold said.