Cooling data centers with raised-floor plenums

HPAC Heating, Piping, AirConditioning Engineering

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 58-65

  Beaty, Don ^a,b  

^a DLB ASSOCIATES CONSULTING ENGINEERS   (United States)

^b American Society of Heating   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-COOLING SYSTEMS; COOLING DATA; EQUIPMENT PACKAGING; RAISED-FLOOR PLENUMS;

AIR; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; FLOORS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

COOLING;

EID: 26944491868     PISSN: 15274055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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