Hot water cooled electronics: Exergy analysis and waste heat reuse feasibility

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 55, Issue 23-24, 2012, Pages 6391-6399

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

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Economic value of heat; Electronic cooling; Energy efficiency; Exergy; Green computing; Hot water cooling

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON FOOTPRINT; COOLANTS; COOLING; COOLING WATER; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXERGY; FOSSIL FUELS; GREEN COMPUTING; TEMPERATURE; WASTE HEAT; WATER; WATER CONSERVATION;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; ECONOMIC VALUES; ELECTRONICS COOLING; HEAT RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; HOT WATER COOLING; THERMODYNAMIC VALUES; UTILITY FUNCTIONS; WATER TEMPERATURES;

ELECTRONIC COOLING;

EID: 84865738260     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.06.027     Document Type: Article

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