Particulate and gaseous contamination specifications
The following table defines the limitations that help avoid any damages to the IT equipment and/or, or both failure from particulate and gaseous contamination. If the levels of particulate or gaseous pollution exceed the specified limitations and results in equipment damage or failure, you must rectify the environmental conditions. Remediation of environmental conditions is the responsibility of the customer.
Table 1. Particulate contamination specifications This table shows the particulate contamination specifications.
Particulate contamination
Specifications
Air filtration
Data center air filtration as defined by ISO Class 8 per ISO 14644-1 with a 95% upper confidence limit.
NOTE This condition applies to data center environments only. Air filtration requirements do not apply to IT equipment designed to be used outside a data center, in environments such as an office or factory floor.
NOTE Air entering the data center must have MERV11 or MERV13 filtration.
Conductive dust
Air must be free of conductive dust, zinc whiskers, or other conductive particles.
NOTE This condition applies to data center and non-data center environments.
Corrosive dust
Air must be free of corrosive dust.
Residual dust present in the air must have a deliquescent point less than 60% relative humidity.
NOTE This condition applies to data center and non-data center environments.
Table 2. Gaseous contamination specifications This table shows the gaseous contamination specifications.
Gaseous contamination
Specifications
Copper Coupon Corrosion rate
<300 Å/month per Class G1 as defined by ANSI/ISA71.04-2013
Silver Coupon Corrosion rate
<200 Å/month as defined by ANSI/ISA71.04-2013
NOTE Maximum corrosive contaminant levels measured at ≤50% relative humidity.
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