Reducing energy usage in data centers through control of room air conditioning units

2010 12th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Iyengar, Madhusudan ^a   Schmidt, Roger ^a   Caricari, Joe ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b Grubb + Ellis Management Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling; Data center; Energy efficiency; Raised floor; Thermal management

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR TEMPERATURE FIELDS; CFD ANALYSIS; CHILLER PLANTS; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; COMPUTER ROOM AIR CONDITIONING; CONDITIONING UNITS; COOLING DATA; COOLING ENERGY; DATA CENTER; DATA CENTER COOLING; DATA CENTERS; DESIGN CONDITION; ENERGY USAGE; ENERGY USE; EQUIPMENT INFORMATION; INLET AIR TEMPERATURES; MOTOR SPEED; ROOM AIR; SET-POINT; SYSTEMATIC METHODOLOGY; TEST CASE; THERMAL MANAGEMENT; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS; VOLUMETRIC AIR FLOW RATE;

AIR CONDITIONING; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CAPILLARY TUBES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLOORS; HEATING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION USE; REFRIGERATION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SERVERS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 77955184435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2010.5501418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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