Energy efficient economizer based data centers with air cooled servers

InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITHERM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 367-376

  Iyengar, Madhusudan ^a   Schmidt, Roger ^a   Kamath, Vinod ^a   Singh, Prabjit ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Data center; economizers; energy efficiency

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; AIR SIDES; AIR-TO-AIR HEAT EXCHANGER; CHILLER PLANTS; CIRCULATING WATERS; COOLING CONFIGURATION; COOLING LOOPS; COOLING POWER; DATA CENTERS; DRY BULB TEMPERATURE; ENERGY EFFICIENT; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; EXHAUST AIR; INLET AIR TEMPERATURES; OUTDOOR AIR; OUTDOOR-AIR TEMPERATURE; WET BULB TEMPERATURE; WET COOLING TOWER;

ECONOMIZERS; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; LIQUIDS; THERMAL LOAD;

COOLING;

EID: 84866150489     PISSN: 19363958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2012.6231453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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