Energy Conservation Measures for a Research Data Center in an Academic Campus

Khaled Iyad Alsharif, Aspen Glaspell and Kyosung Choo
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Khaled Iyad Alsharif: Mechanical Engineering, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555, USA
Aspen Glaspell: Mechanical Engineering, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555, USA
Kyosung Choo: Mechanical Engineering, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555, USA

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 10, 1-12

Abstract: Simulation and experimental studies were conducted to investigate energy consumption, develop ECMs (Energy Conservation Measures), and analyze temperature increase under a power failure scenario for a research data center at Youngstown State University. Two ECMs were developed to improve energy consumption by analyzing the thermal performance of the data center: (1) increase the return temperature in air conditioning vents; (2) provide cold aisle containment with the set point temperature increase. A transient analysis was conducted under a cooling system failure scenario to predict the temperature variation over time. The results suggest that it takes 600 s to increase the server inlet temperature by 16.1 °C for the baseline model. In addition, in the ECM #2, the maximum temperature at the server inlet did not reach 40 °C under the air conditioning system failure scenario, which is the maximum operating temperature of the ASHRAE A3 envelop.

Keywords: energy consumption; data center; energy savings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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