Graduation Semester and Year
2022
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering
Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
First Advisor
Dereje Agonafer
Abstract
In recent years, applications including IoT (Internet of Things), content delivery, and 5G have created a large demand for low-latency access to data processing and data storage. Traditional centralized data centers weren’t designed with those use cases in mind. Small data centers such as edge computing data centers and colocation data centers house more than half of all servers across the United States. Rear Door Heat exchangers (RDHx) provide an energy-efficient cooling solution to traditional CRAC/CRAH - based cooling methods by localizing the heat removal from the rack. With more control over air distribution through a shorter path between the hot air and the heat removal, this cooling method is efficient and predictable and can easily be implemented into existing data centers. In this study, RDHx implemented in a Edge computing center and Colocation Data center models using commercially available CFD software (6SigmaRoom). TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and Cooling costs of the data center models are calculated and compared to traditional CRA based cooling methods.
Keywords
Data center, Cooling, Rear door heat exchanger
Disciplines
Aerospace Engineering | Engineering | Mechanical Engineering
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Pundla, Sai Abhideep, "ENERGY ANALYSIS OF REAR DOOR HEAT EXCHANGERS IN DATA CENTERS WITH DYNAMIC WORKLOAD DISTRIBUTION" (2022). Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses. 744.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/mechaerospace_theses/744
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington