Designing environmentally sustainable electronic cooling systems using exergo-thermo-volumes

International Journal of Energy Research

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1266-1277

  Shah, Amip J ^a   Patel, Chandrakant D ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronics cooling; Environment; Exergy; Information technology; Sustainability; Sustainable design

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY PROCESS; COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE; COOLING SOLUTIONS; DESIGN ENGINEERS; ELECTRONIC COOLING; ELECTRONICS COOLING; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENTERPRISE SERVERS; ENTROPY GENERATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EXERGY CONSUMPTION; EXERGY COST; EXERGY LOSS; FLOW RESISTANCE; HEAT REMOVAL CAPACITY; HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUID FLOW; MATERIAL CHOICE; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PER UNIT; PUMPING POWER; RESOURCE CONSUMPTION; SUSTAINABLE DESIGN; THERMAL MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS; THERMAL RESISTANCE;

AVAILABILITY; COOLING; DESIGN; ENTROPY; EXERGY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATERIALS HANDLING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 75849141970     PISSN: 0363907X     EISSN: 1099114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/er.1532     Document Type: Article

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