Reliability risk mitigation of free air cooling through prognostics and health management

Applied Energy

Volumn 111, Issue , 2013, Pages 104-112

  Dai, Jun ^a   Das, Diganta ^a   Ohadi, Michael ^a   Pecht, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Data center; Failure prediction; Free air cooling; Prognostics and health management (PHM); Reliability risks mitigation

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; HUMIDITY CONTROL; MAINTENANCE; RELIABILITY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

AIR COOLING; DATA CENTERS; FAILURE PREDICTION; PROGNOSTICS AND HEALTH MANAGEMENTS; RELIABILITY RISKS;

COOLING;

COOLING; DATA SET; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RISK FACTOR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84878551829     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.04.047     Document Type: Article

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