Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction
Date of this Version
2017
Citation
Procedia Engineering 205 (2017) 3096–3103
Abstract
A cooling plant by using lake water source was proposed to cool the space in data centers. It combines free cooling technology and variable capacity technology to remove heat and reduce energy consumption effectively. In this paper, firstly, the control strategies for this cooling plant were proposed. Then, a detailed annual energy consumption model with considering the effect of the dynamic heat dissipation characteristics of servers, lake water temperature, outdoor weather conditions, and cooling plant thermal performance, will be established to evaluate the performance and energy efficiency of this cooling plant under different load factors. The results show the mode 1 and mode 2 of this cooling plant are 67.6% and 32.4% of the year’s running time, respectively. The average EER of the cooling plant under different load factor ranges from 16.8~49.3, and the average PUE value ranges from 1.11 to 1.15 under different load factors, which demonstrates this cooling plant poses higher energy efficiency than the conventional cooling plant for the data centers.
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10.1016/j.proeng.2017.10.313