Exergy analysis of data center thermal management systems

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Advanced Energy Systems Division (Publication) AES

Volumn 43, Issue , 2003, Pages 437-446

  Shah, Amip J ^a   Carey, Van P ^a   Bash, Cullen E ^b   Patel, Chandrakant D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Data centers; Exergy; Second law analysis; Thermal management

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DATA REDUCTION; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; GROUND STATE; MASS TRANSFER; OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

EXERGY;

EID: 1842583748     PISSN: 10716947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2003-42527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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