Rittal Launches Energy Efficient UPS Device for High Availability Data Centres

Tuesday, 12 June 2007 07:58

Rittal, a leading worldwide provider of IT infrastructure technologies, has announced its new 3-phase UPS which provides organisations with higher efficiencies and availability with savings on their energy expenditure.
Rittal’s PMC200 has an efficiency rate of 96 percent at full load and over 95 percent for partial loads, ranking it among the top of its class internationally. The resulting cost savings can amount to several thousand dollars over a typical service life compared with less efficient UPS devices.

The high power density of the Rittal PMC200 provides up to 200 kW per rack or 250 kW/m2 of floor space. The modular, transformerless system can be equipped with a maximum of five UPS modules which are available in the power levels 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 40 kW.  This fine graduation underlines the demand for pay-as-you-grow systems.  Organisations need only buy as much power as they require at any one time, making expensive overcapacity a thing of the past. At the same time, the modular concept also covers future power demands, which can be retrofitted whilst the UPS is still online. In addition, thanks to the reduction in weight, most modules can now be installed and removed by just one person.

The Rittal PMC200 has also been developed with emerging technologies in mind. In the past most UPS were manufactured to deliver their maximum output at a lagging power factor of 0.8. With the advent of technologies such as blade servers, however, electrical loads have shifted from a lagging to a leading power factor which results in a potential de-rating of a traditional UPS. The PMC200 has been design to accommodate for this shift and provides its maximum output for electrical loads between 0.9 leading and 0.8 lagging power factor.

For the first time in racks up to 20 kW, Rittal now offers the option of integrating a 12-way 482.6 mm (19”) power sub-distributor directly in the UPS rack, which allows for fused connection of the server racks. Twelve 3-phase outputs are fused per phase via circuit breakers saving space and allowing the entire power supply in smaller installations to be clearly integrated in a single rack.

“A reliable power supply is the backbone of every high availability data centre and today all companies are dependent on always-on, high-performance IT.  The PMC 200 is another step in Rittal’s product strategy to provide solutions which are energy efficient, have low total cost of ownership and provide a complete solution for a safe and cost-effective IT infrastructure,” said Mark Roberts, RimatriX5 Product Manager.
  
About Rittal

With an off-the-shelf range of over 10,000 standard products, Rittal is one of the world's leading system suppliers of housing and enclosure technologies and an in-demand solutions partner in all segments of the IT market. The company is one of the top international sources of 19" rack systems and is an OEM supplier to numerous leading server manufacturers.

The Rittal product range incorporates a multitude of unique solutions for the configuration of complex computer and data processing centres, including network and server racks, power management, cooling, monitoring, IT security and interactive terminal system.

Rittal operates 19 high-tech production locations, 60 international subsidiaries, 150 sales and logistics centres, and more than 70 agencies around the globe. With about 9,000 employees worldwide, Rittal International is the largest company of the Friedhelm Loh Group, based in Haiger, Germany.