A simulation-based assessment of humidity treatment in data centre cooling systems with air-side economisers
Date
2018Keywords
Air-side economiser
Data centre’s cooling system
Energy analysis
Energy simulation
Humidity
Simulation-based assessment
Abstract
The increasing digitalisation of data is resulting in the need for ever greater computational capacity, which in turn leads to the increasing energy consumption in data centres. A large percentage of this energy use arises from the need to mechanically remove an enormous amount of heat from the data centre environment. In fact, in current practice, the mechanical infrastructure (especially cooling systems) of the data centre accounts for up to half of the overall energy consumption. To reduce the energy consumption of the mechanical infrastructure, several economisation methods are commonly implemented in cooling systems, one of which is the application of a direct air-side economiser addressed in the current research. The use of an air-side economiser has been shown to lead to major savings of the cooling electricity demand, and, as such, it has been widely used as a necessary addition to conventional cooling systems. This study analyses the energy breakdown of data centre cooling sys ...
Type
journal article