Superior Solutions for
Data Centres
Effective chemical solutions for data center building maintenance
There Are No Offline Hours in Your Buildings
The buildings that house data require very specific conditions, 24/7. That means that cooling and heating systems need to maintain their performance levels no matter what, or you risk losing data service. There’s simply no room for error.
You Need More Than Maintenance Chemistry
You need a chemical provider who understands what’s at stake
Underperforming systems can be disastrous for your data. To keep your heating and cooling systems working, we are prepared to deliver what’s needed, when you need it. You need someone who understands your systems, who you can trust to answer your call any time of day, and who works tirelessly to find the right solution.
Solutions
Water Treatment
Your water systems are critical to your building—and when you’re housing the world’s data, there is no such thing as ‘down time.’ To ensure your facilities stay up and running in all conditions, Guardian delivers the three pillars required for successful water treatment: industry-leading chemistry, responsive and knowledgeable service, and the holistic processes to ensure your systems perform at the lowest possible operating cost. This approach is grounded in decades of experience and supported by a data-driven process, giving operations and leadership the peace of mind they deserve. And we do this with health and safety as our top priority—that means everything from providing the proper training to handle the products to water management plans ensuring legionella does not cause an issue for your building. We can help by providing chemistry that is designed to get the most out of your systems, and the service support needed to keep them working as long as possible.
While the best water systems will be perfectly balanced, we understand that sometimes not everything goes as planned. That is why we also have a suite of solutions such as defoamers, descalers and odour controllers to help get your system back on track and operating at peak performance.
Sanitizing & Disinfecting
Protect the health of everyone in and around your buildings from the visible and invisible bacteria, fungi, and other contaminants that can linger for days in the right environment. Guardian’s wide variety of solutions include several registered with Health Canada. All our hard surface cleaners, sanitizers, and disinfectants are made to ensure the cleanliness of contaminated surfaces.
Descaling
The best water systems will be perfectly balanced to minimize scale issues. However, once scale develops, it can impact the efficacy of your boilers, chillers, cooling towers, and heat exchangers. By treating this issue as soon as it’s noticed, you can prevent further negative impacts on your systems and equipment. We have the systems and people to properly treat the issue and optimize your system’s performance, no matter what condition it’s in.
You Can Count on Us to Help Keep Things Running
Programs for your systems: boiler water treatment, cooling tower treatment, closed loop and chiller treatment and DataGuard monitoring. Local service: Edmonton and Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver and Florida. Guide: cycles of concentration in cooling systems.
We don’t believe in ‘deliver-and-done’. True benefits revolve around the consistency of program execution, which is why we’re there when you need us both for regular servicing and emergency support for life.
Our experts know your industry and will seek to understand the unique challenges of your business. Let’s talk.
Your systems and processes are interconnected. We’ll arrange a site visit to understand the bigger picture.
Frequently Asked Questions About Chemical Solutions for Data Centres
Whatever rejects the heat: cooling towers or evaporative units on the open side, and chilled water and closed condenser loops on the closed side. The closed loops matter more here than in most buildings, because a corrosion or fouling problem in a chilled water loop shows up as reduced cooling capacity at exactly the wrong moment.
Run higher cycles of concentration, which means treating for the scaling potential that comes with it rather than blending it away with make-up water. The limit is set by your make-up water chemistry, not by a rule of thumb. Knowing the local water quality is what lets us push cycles safely.
Yes, if it is planned against your redundancy. Treatment, testing and dosing run live. Cell cleaning and any offline work is scheduled cell by cell within N+1. The risk to uptime comes from deferring the work until a fouled condenser limits capacity on a hot day.
It corrodes quietly and then fouls. Oxygen ingress through make-up, seals and air separators drives iron oxide production, which settles in coils and plate exchangers and reduces heat transfer. Loops that have run untreated for years usually need cleaning before treatment will do anything useful.
Test it rather than trust it. Iron, copper, inhibitor residual, conductivity and bacteria give a clear picture. Rising conductivity in a closed loop means make-up is entering somewhere, which means oxygen is entering with it, and that is the finding that matters most.
Yes. Glycol needs its own inhibitor package and degrades over time to acidic products, so it has to be tested rather than just topped up. Free cooling loops that sit idle seasonally also need layup consideration, the same as any other system that runs part-year.
At minimum, scheduled testing with trended results. Beyond that, remote controllers on towers and closed loops give continuous conductivity, flow and dosing data with alerting, so a pump failure or a treatment upset is visible immediately rather than at the next service visit.
Directly. Scale and biofilm on condenser surfaces raise condensing temperature, which raises compressor power for the same load. A fouled condenser is an efficiency penalty you pay every hour, and it is one of the few operating variables in a facility that is fully within the operator’s control.
Yes. The chemistry is the same; the reporting is what changes. We set up testing and records so facility operations can show tenants and auditors that the mechanical plant is under control, which is usually part of the SLA conversation.
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We offer chemistry and support when and
where you need it most.
