Water Treatment for Data Centers

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Water Treatment Solutions for
Data Centers

Data centers strive to maintain system reliability and uptime while reducing water and power usage and maximizing performance at their facilities.

ChemTreat offers water treatment programs tailored to site-specific needs for cooling towers, closed loops, and emerging liquid cooling technologies to help data centers improve efficiency and meet Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) targets.

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Why Choose ChemTreat for Your Data Center Water Treatment?

Our experienced local service teams and industry specialists support over 200 data center facilities across North America in meeting their performance and environmental goals.

Partnering with ChemTreat provides data centers with on-site service, customized treatment technologies, and monitoring and control solutions.

  • Responsive local team experienced in supporting mission-critical facilities
  • Technical experts with data center industry experience
  • World-class analytical and R&D labs for sample analyses and pilot studies
  • Sustainability audits to uncover water and energy savings opportunities
  • Solutions for cooling towers, closed loops, adiabatic systems, and direct-to-chip cooling
  • Custom water reuse programs
  • Next-generation high-performance technology to help reduce gallons of water per megawatt

New Design & Construction Project Support

Water systems affect reliability and efficiency from the moment a new data center goes online.

ChemTreat partners with data centers to design and prepare water systems and treatment programs for new construction projects, helping them improve performance from the start.

Our new design project services include:

  • On-site support and consultations
  • Treatment program selection and feed setup
  • Engineering solutions
  • Equipment recommendations and sourcing
  • Pre-operational cleaning for facility cooling systems (FCS) and technology cooling systems (TCS)
  • Sample analyses to track water quality from pre-cleaning to the finished quality stage
  • Water balance studies to design reclaim programs
  • Training for data center personnel

CTSolutions® D2C Direct-to-Chip Treatment

ChemTreat’s comprehensive direct-to-chip treatment package helps data centers maintain reliability and uptime by preserving design specifications, sustaining cleanliness, and remediating efficiency issues in impaired cooling systems.

  • Propylene glycol 25% and 50% heat transfer fluids
  • Aqueous coolant options with bio-static operational capabilities to help improve heat transfer efficiency
  • Specialty biocides formulated for data center applications, including both stabilized oxidizing and non-oxidizing options.

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Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling Treatment Helps DOE National Laboratory Improve System Performance

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Adiabatic System Services

Improperly treated adiabatic cooling systems not only affect data center efficiency but may incur additional costs associated with replacing fouled filter media.

Our programs are designed to help you extend the life of your adiabatic media.

  • Treatment performance studies to select proper chemistry and identify water savings opportunities
  • Testing to ensure chemistry compatibility with materials of construction and media
  • Scale inhibitors, anti-microbial treatment, and cleaning products
  • Sampling, analysis, and treatment plans for Legionella and other bacteria
  • Consulting and support for filtration system setup and maintenance

Smart Release Bio-Clear Bio-Watch

ChemTreat partners with Dober to offer Smart Release Bio-Clear Bio-Watch, which includes:

  • Solid, broad-spectrum, non-oxidizing biocide for treating microbiological fouling
  • Sensor to regulate product release for targeted and consistent biocide concentration

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Utility Cooling Treatment Solutions

Our cooling treatment programs support data centers with maintaining availability and improving WUE.

We offer a full suite of corrosion, scale, and fouling treatment options for evaporative cooling systems, air-cooled chilled water systems, and TCS cooling loops.

  • FlexPro® and FlexCorr non- and low-phosphorus corrosion inhibitors
  • MultiCuRE low-azole yellow metal corrosion inhibitors
  • CalciTect® tagged calcium carbonate and sulfate scale inhibitor
  • QuadDetect® tagged deposit control agent
  • SurfClean 2.0 dual-purpose halogen stabilizer and biodispersant

Committed to continuous improvement, ChemTreat designs innovative solutions to help enhance system performance and support environmental goals.

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Data Center Saves $1.7M in Annual Water and Energy Costs with ChemTreat Cooling Treatment Program

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Deploying Sustainability Principles

Our programs and services enable our customers to quantify water-related risks, set targets, take action, and track performance.

To support water, energy, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, ChemTreat can perform sustainability audits for our data center customers.

Sustainability audit reports provide:

  • Impact summaries of findings
  • Evaluations of current treatment programs, feed equipment, sample results, and more
  • Training opportunities for operators
  • Recommendations for helping reduce water and energy usage, save costs, and maintain or improve system efficiency

Working with ChemTreat to implement sustainability report recommendations enables our customers to reduce water and energy use, minimize waste, maintain system efficiency, and enhance their brand reputation.

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Featured Resources
QTS Ashburn-Broderick Data Center Receives ChemTreat Power of Water Award
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ChemTreat Sustainability Audits Uncover Water and Energy Savings at Multiple Data Center Facilities
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Trust ChemTreat’s Specialists for Data Center Water Treatment

With our tailored water treatment programs and sustainability assessments, our experienced team can help you enhance system availability and reliability while improving PUE and WUE.

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