US 12,396,143 B1
Intelligent trickling filter water recycling technology supporting energy efficient evaporative cooling for data center heat dissipation
Dana K Ripley, Pleasanton, CA (US)
Filed by Dana K Ripley, Pleasanton, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 27, 2025, as Appl. No. 19/092,790.
Int. Cl. H05K 7/20 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/20836 (2013.01) [H05K 7/20309 (2013.01); H05K 7/20827 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid cooling method for managing energy and water usage efficiency in data centers, comprising:
utilizing one or more evaporative cooling tower(s) thermally coupled to one or more heat exchangers in an external cooling loop and fluidly coupled to a trickling filter (TF) tower-based wastewater treatment plant, wherein the one or more heat exchangers are coupled to one or more servers operating at variable computational loads;
integrating server load data with tower recirculation rates to enable real-time adaptive external cooling and biofilm health maintenance through one or more controllers integrated with one or more variable frequency drive pumps, wherein tower recirculation rates are finely controlled based on one more sensors integrated with the variable frequency drive pumps; and
employing a secondary, nitrified effluent as a cooling medium.