INDIA: Danfoss India, a leader in advanced cooling solutions, is excited to introduce the Optyma Pack Condensing Unit, designed to revolutionize bulk milk cooling with unmatched robustness and reliability. Launched during the latest edition of Food Pro 2024, The Optyma Pack is engineered to meet the rigorous demands of dairy operations, ensuring optimal performance even in the most challenging conditions.

The Optyma Pack features a sophisticated twin-fan design, which significantly enhances cooling efficiency and system durability. This advanced configuration ensures superior heat dissipation, maintaining optimal operating temperatures even in high ambient conditions of up to 48°C. This makes the Optyma Pack ideal for hot climates where cooling performance can be a concern.

Adding to its innovative design, the Optyma Pack incorporates a fin and tube heat exchanger with a hydrophilic coating. This cutting-edge coating enhances thermal efficiency and prolongs the lifespan of the unit. The result is a system that delivers reliable performance while minimizing maintenance requirements.

The Danfoss Optyma Pack Condensing Unit sets a new standard in bulk milk cooling with its innovative features, robust design, and exceptional reliability. It is the perfect choice for dairy professionals seeking a dependable solution to maintain optimal milk temperatures and enhance energy efficiency which in a way helps in reducing carbon footprint. This condensing unit complies with all the Global material standards like RoHS and REACH in line with Danfoss ESG Commitments.

During the event, Ravichandran Purushothaman, President, of Danfoss India, expressed his excitement towards the launch of Optyma, saying, “The Optyma Pack condensing unit is more than just a product; it’s a game-changer for India’s dairy sector, and the Cold Chain Industry. Its robust design and superior cooling efficiency address the critical challenges faced by dairy farmers and processors, ensuring milk quality and safety. By introducing this innovative solution, Danfoss is not only setting a new industry benchmark but also contributing significantly to India’s journey toward sustainable and efficient food production”.

Madhur Sehgal, Head of Climate Solutions, with Danfoss India Region, said, “With the Optyma Pack Condensing Unit, we’re enhancing the systems of bulk milk cooling and cold room applications with unparalleled energy efficiency and reliability. Its cutting-edge design ensures optimal performance even in extreme conditions, reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint. This launch reinforces Danfoss India’s commitment to sustainable climate solutions, supporting India’s food safety and preservation needs while promoting eco-friendly practices”.

Danfoss India’s commitment to delivering sustainable solutions is exemplified through its varied products & solutions, designed to meet the evolving needs of burgeoning sectors such as datacentres, infrastructure, food & beverage, industrial equipment, cement, and water & wastewater treatment,  etc. amongst others.

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INDIA: Danfoss and Hewlett Packard Enterprise recently announced their collaboration to deliver HPE IT Sustainability Services – Data Center Heat Recovery, an off-the shelf heat recovery module, helping organizations manage and value excess[1] heat as they transition towards more sustainable IT facilities.

The rapid integration of AI technologies across organizations and businesses is expected to have a dramatic increase in the power demand and utilization of AI optimized IT infrastructure. According to the International Energy Agency, by 2026 the AI industry is expected to have grown exponentially to consume at least ten times its electricity demand in 2023[2]. To mitigate these challenges, IT leaders and data center facility operators are taking action to reduce energy usage, such as implementing modern power-efficient capabilities and improved cooling systems. Excess heat in the EU alone represents an estimated 2,860 TWh/y, almost equal to the EU’s total energy demand for heat and hot water in residential and service sector buildings[3]. The flow of excess heat from data centers is uninterruptible and therefore constitutes a very reliable source of clean energy.

Ravichandran Purushothaman, President, of Danfoss India, said, “Sustainability is at the heart of our partnership with HPE. By harnessing excess heat, we’re not only reducing energy consumption but also creating a reliable source of clean energy. Danfoss’ heat reuse modules will make it possible to capture and reuse heat produced by data centres, providing a renewable energy source to supply heating on site and to neighbouring commercial and residential buildings, communities and industries that need heat for their processes.”

Benefits and agility of modularity
HPE’s MDC incorporates direct liquid cooling (DLC) technologies to enhance energy efficiency by over 20% and optimize energy production and distribution, leading to notable energy savings. The design’s compactness minimizes energy loss by reducing the distance for energy and cooling fluid transport and maximizes the temperature differential at the inlet and outlet, which promotes the capture of excess heat. Furthermore, the MDC’s agility and the exclusion of heavy industrial materials negate the need for costly, conventional building materials and substantially reduces the time to market. Deployment can be achieved three times quicker than with traditional data centers, decreasing from 18 months to as few as 6 months. Finally, the reduced land footprint and flexibility of the MDCs allow for placement in proximity to data generation sites, which diminishes the energy impact and bottlenecks associated with complex networking solutions and data transfer, while also supporting enhanced data governance and security.

To address these issues, the new energy efficient data center solution from Danfoss & HPE offers:

• Danfoss’ innovative solutions include heat reuse modules that capture excess heat from data centers to provide renewable heating onsite and to neighboring buildings and industries for various applications, and Turbocor® oil-free compressors that enhance data center cooling efficiency by up to 30%.
• HPE’s scalable Modular Data Center (MDC), in the form of small footprint, high-density (kW/rack) containers, can be deployed nearly anywhere in the total absence of heavy industry and incorporates technologies such as direct liquid cooling, reducing overall energy consumption by 20%.

“Our strategic partnership with HPE is a great example of how we revolutionize building and decarbonizing the data center industry together with customers,” said Jürgen Fischer, President, of Danfoss Climate Solutions. “With this latest cross-industry partnership we’re building the blueprint for the next generation of sustainable datacenters – using technologies available today”.

With unparalleled density, HPE’s modular data centers offer an impressive power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1  in contrast to the PUE of 1.3 to 1.4 typically associated with the best modern designs of traditional brick-and-mortar data centers. Capable of handling the most power-demanding architectures like HPE Cray Supercomputing EX4000, HPE’s modular data center is the adequate architecture for mission critical and compute intensive workloads like supercomputing and generative AI, enabling scientists, universities, and enterprises to achieve faster outcomes.

“At HPE, we believe in the power of collaboration to create transformative solutions,” said Sue Preston, Vice President & General Manager, WW Advisory & Professional Services & Managed Services, HPE. “Our partnership with Danfoss brings together HPE’s innovative modular data center with Danfoss’ groundbreaking heat reuse technology. Together, we are not just adding value; we are multiplying it. By harnessing the typically untapped resource of waste heat, turning waste into worth, showing the future of energy usage is efficient, intelligent, and, most importantly, achievable now.”

From chip to chiller: Driving innovation in decarbonization
To leverage excess heat – one of the largest untapped sources of energy and the largest potential for data centers across Europe, HPE has partnered up with Danfoss as their decarbonization partner. The strategic partnership takes advantage of Danfoss’ extensive product portfolio of energy-efficient solutions to drive innovation, support decarbonization and build the blueprint for the next generation of sustainable modular data centers.

HPE IT Sustainability Services – Data Center Heat Recovery is inspired by how Danfoss is already using heat reuse technology at its own headquarters campus in Denmark. Here, the heat is recovered from Danfoss’ onsite data center, boosted by a heat pump, and re-used in surrounding buildings to provide space heating. The heat can also be fed into the local district heating network to provide a renewable heat source to local residents. Reusing heat is a major part of Danfoss’ own decarbonization strategy which has helped Danfoss achieve carbon neutrality in the energy system of its 250,000m2 campus in Nordborg in 2022.

The new scalable modular data center offering leverages Danfoss technologies, including Turbocor® compressors for heat pumps and chillers, heat exchangers, heat reuse modules, drives and pump skids allowing data centers to be cooled up to 30% more efficiently while recovering and reusing excess heat. It’s a modular solution with components that work together seamlessly and includes two technology stack options with a heat recovery system, including hydronic heat recovery heat exchanger and water-water heat pump, recovering heat from an air-cooled edge-to-cloud modular data center today and potentially second phase liquid cooled HPC modular data center.

Anju Mary Kuruvilla, Director- Industry Affairs, Communication & Sustainability- Danfoss India, said, “As we navigate the data-driven era, sustainability is crucial for India’s expanding data center industry,  which is expected to grow exponentially by 132% to ~10 billion USD by 2027. Danfoss  partnering with HPE as part of our holistic “Reduce, Reuse, Resource” approach will help inspire more green data centers in the nation, with circularity and decarbonization embedded in them.”

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Under the partnership, Danfoss, the Danish multinational engineering group, will use Google Cloud’s generative AI capabilities to optimize the customer experience, streamline internal work processes, and improve productivity across the organization. This can be done, for example, by using gen AI to collect and surface information, automate knowledge, generate product descriptions, and create solutions with chatbots in e-commerce.

As a global leader in energy-efficient solutions, Danfoss is working with Google to implement sustainable cooling systems for data centers and to design systems that reuse the excess heat produced by data centers. Danfoss Turbocor® compressors provide highly reliable, highly efficient solutions when expertly applied by OEM partners and are being installed by Google to improve energy efficiency and decarbonize heating and cooling systems in data centers.

Ravichandran Purushothaman, President- of Danfoss India Region said, “Danfoss and Google’s strategic partnership will accelerate the digital transformation of customer experience. Leveraging the latest technological advancements in AI and energy efficiency in Data center operations will help Danfoss’ customers to achieve common objectives of sustainability, operational excellence, and business performance.”

Meanwhile, Danfoss’ heat reuse modules will make it possible for Google to capture and reuse heat produced by data centers, providing a renewable energy source to supply heating on-site and to neighboring commercial and residential buildings, communities, and industries that need heat for their processes. Going forward, Danfoss’ expertise in decarbonization solutions will be used to an even greater extent to advance data center sustainability in Europe, North America, and beyond.

Anju Mary Kuruvilla, Director of industry affairs, Communications, Sustainability& CSR said, “The solution will have the capability to help customers achieve their sustainability and energy transition objectives by providing advanced monitoring and optimization insights into the carbon emissions and energy usage.”

The new agreement, announced during the AHR Expo in Chicago, USA, builds on an existing collaboration between the two companies, which were among the founders of the Net Zero Innovation Hub in Fredericia, Denmark, announced in September 2023, where several major players joined forces to accelerate the green transformation of data centers. Danfoss and Google are now taking a step further by entering into a broader partnership.

Jürgen Fischer, President, of Danfoss Climate Solutions, said: “At Danfoss, we want to revolutionize how we build and decarbonize data centers together with our customers. When we partner up across industries, as we have done with Google, we accelerate this development towards building better and more sustainable data centers – using technologies available today.”

Google Vice President of Data Center Innovation, J.P. Clausen, is excited about the collaboration. “This is a great example of a partnership utilizing each other’s strengths and using technology to optimize the customer experience, increase productivity, and reach sustainability goals. Danfoss is a leader in energy efficiency, and these solutions help support Google’s 2030 goal of running our data centers on carbon-free energy 24/7. We’re happy to deliver AI innovation through Google Cloud, enabling businesses like Danfoss to operate in new and smarter ways,” says J.P. Clausen.

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