Efficient thermal management – from heat rejection to heat reuse
Heat rejection & heat recovery for data centres
Your benefits with our solutions for heat rejection and recovery
- Advanced thermal management solutions based on the latest technologies for reliable, efficient and sustainable data centre operation.
- Comprehensive system expertise: We advise you on the right solution for your requirements and help optimise the potential for free cooling and heat recovery.
- Reliable and efficient heat rejection helps protect critical IT infrastructure, improve data centre performance and reduce energy consumption.
- Turn waste heat into a resource: Our solutions enable the recovery of dissipated heat for applications such as district heating, building heating, domestic hot water and industrial processes.
- Optimise the overall energy balance: Combining efficient heat rejection, free cooling and heat recovery can reduce cooling energy requirements while increasing the value of recovered heat.
- Designed for integration: Our heat transfer solutions can connect data centre cooling systems with heat pumps, district heating networks and other heat consumers.
- Reduce operating costs and environmental impact by improving energy efficiency, making greater use of renewable energy and avoiding unnecessary heat loss.
- Future-ready solutions that support growing data centre power densities and evolving requirements for energy efficiency, sustainability and heat reuse.
Heat Rejection Solutions
For data centre operators, managing heat efficiently is essential to maintaining reliable performance while reducing energy consumption and operating costs. Heat exchangers and heat rejection systems play a key role in removing heat from critical IT infrastructure and enabling efficient cooling concepts.
Compared with mechanical cooling, free cooling – using naturally cool air or water where conditions allow – can significantly reduce the energy required for cooling. The right system design can help maximise free cooling potential while improving both PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) and WUE (Water Usage Effectiveness).
But efficient heat rejection is only part of the energy equation. Heat recovery offers an additional opportunity to make better use of the energy already consumed by the data centre. Instead of rejecting all waste heat to the environment, it can be recovered and transferred to suitable heat consumers, such as nearby buildings, district heating networks, domestic hot water systems or industrial processes.
By combining efficient heat rejection, free cooling and heat recovery, data centre operators can optimise the overall thermal and energy balance of their facility – reducing cooling requirements while turning waste heat into a valuable energy resource. This integrated approach can support lower operating costs, improved energy efficiency and progress towards sustainability targets.
Discover our sustainable heat rejection and heat recovery solutions and their potential to improve the efficiency and energy balance of your data centre. We provide not only innovative technologies and efficient solutions, but also individual advice tailored to your specific requirements, site conditions and thermal management concept.
Our experienced team supports you in finding the right solution – from efficient heat rejection and maximising free cooling potential to recovering and reusing waste heat. Together, we can assess opportunities to integrate recovered heat into applications such as building heating, district heating networks, hot water supply or industrial processes.
Explore our detailed information on thermal management, heat rejection and heat recovery, access our technical documentation and connect with our experts. Together, we can optimise your cooling and heat transfer systems, reduce energy consumption and make greater use of available heat – supporting efficient, reliable and sustainable data centre operation for the long term.
