Aquasar: A hot water cooled data center with direct energy reuse

Energy

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 237-245

  Zimmermann, Severin ^a,b   Meijer, Ingmar ^b   Tiwari, Manish K ^a   Paredes, Stephan ^b   Michel, Bruno ^b   Poulikakos, Dimos ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electronic cooling; Energy reuse; Exergy; Green computing; Hot water Cooling; Value of heat

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; COOLANTS; COOLING SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COOLING; EXERGY; SPACE HEATING; SPECIFIC HEAT; SUPERCOMPUTERS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; WASTE HEAT;

ADSORPTION CHILLER; AIR PRE-COOLING; BUILDING HEATING; CHIP COOLING; COOLANT TEMPERATURE; DATA CENTERS; ECONOMIC VALUES; ENERGY AND EXERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY REUSE; EXERGETIC EFFICIENCY; GREEN COMPUTING; HEAT RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; HOT WATER; NOVEL CONCEPT; REUSE STRATEGY; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENTIAL; VALUE OF HEAT; WATER TEMPERATURES;

WATER;

COMPUTER; COOLING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXERGY; HEATING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84861776270     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.04.037     Document Type: Article

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