Impact of integrated hot water cooling and desiccant-assisted evaporative cooling systems on energy savings in a data center
- Title
- Impact of integrated hot water cooling and desiccant-assisted evaporative cooling systems on energy savings in a data center
- Author
- 박준석
- Keywords
- Data center; Hot water cooling; Liquid desiccant; Evaporative cooling
- Issue Date
- 2014-12
- Publisher
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Citation
- ENERGY, 2014, 78, P.384-396
- Abstract
- The primary objective of this paper is to propose the integration of a hot water cooling system with a desiccant-assisted evaporative cooling system for air conditioning a data center. The feasibility of the integrated system is analyzed by a detailed energy simulation for a model data center by using TRNSYS (transient system simulation) 16 with a commercial equation solver program. The energy saving potential of the proposed system is evaluated by comparing it to a conventional air handling system with an air-side economizer serving the model data center.The results show that the proposed system saves more than 95% of the peak power demand and 84% of annual operating energy consumption with respect to the conventional air conditioning system for the data center. This advantage in energy savings is primarily obtained by the use of water-side free cooling in the hot water cooling system and the evaporative cooling effect enhanced by the liquid desiccant system in the air-side supply. Fan energy savings caused by reduced air flow in the proposed system also contributes to the reduction in operating energy. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- URI
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544214011724?via%3Dihubhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11754/49450
- ISSN
- 0360-5442; 1873-6785
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.energy.2014.10.023
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- COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING[S](공과대학) > ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING(건축공학부) > Articles
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