TY - JOUR
T1 - A framework for waste heat energy recovery within data centre
AU - Luo, Yang
AU - Andresen, John
AU - Clarke, Henry
AU - Rajendra, Matthew
AU - Maroto-Valer, Mercedes
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of ICAE2018 - The 10th International Conference on Applied Energy.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Data Centres are emerging as a large industrial sector, consuming three percent of the global electricity supply while contributing for two percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, with as much as half ultimately wasted as heat. Consequently, research has focused on technologies for harvesting this waste heat energy. A framework and its accompanying decision support tool is presented which identifies the compatibility of waste heat source(s) and sink(s), exergy balance and temporal availability, along with economic and environmental benefits of available heat exchanger technologies to propose a streamlined and optimised heat recovery strategy. Substantial improvement in data centre energy efficiency together with reduction in payback time for heat recovery has been demonstrated in the included case study.
AB - Data Centres are emerging as a large industrial sector, consuming three percent of the global electricity supply while contributing for two percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, with as much as half ultimately wasted as heat. Consequently, research has focused on technologies for harvesting this waste heat energy. A framework and its accompanying decision support tool is presented which identifies the compatibility of waste heat source(s) and sink(s), exergy balance and temporal availability, along with economic and environmental benefits of available heat exchanger technologies to propose a streamlined and optimised heat recovery strategy. Substantial improvement in data centre energy efficiency together with reduction in payback time for heat recovery has been demonstrated in the included case study.
KW - Data centre
KW - Energy efficiency
KW - Environment
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Waste heat recovery
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U2 - 10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.875
DO - 10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.875
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85063894200
SN - 1876-6102
VL - 158
SP - 3788
EP - 3794
JO - Energy Procedia
JF - Energy Procedia
T2 - 10th International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2018
Y2 - 22 August 2018 through 25 August 2018
ER -
