Graduation Semester and Year
2015
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
First Advisor
Dereje Agonafer
Abstract
Cooling of Data centers is of paramount importance for continuous and reliable operation of Servers housed by them. Considerable amount of total power is used to drive the cooling activity. Various different types of cooling methods have been implemented and are currently operating in various data centers. Evaporative (Indirect/Direct) Cooling is trending these days because of its ability to provide cooling at minimal cost. Previous studies have presented various cooling plants in data centers and studied them. A dedicated model for Evaporative cooling is developed and validated. The data is computed assuming the developed cooling model operating at a particular location and subsequently computing the cooling capacity and performance parameters of a Datacenter such as PUE and Water consumption. Also the environmental data for temperatures at a particular location is gathered. Based on the data and results obtained from the models and by analyzing an actual Evaporative Cooling Unit we can validate our models. After validation of the models we can study the performance of the data center along the Thermal Guidelines created by ASHRAE
Keywords
Evaporative cooling, Data center, pPUE, Water consumption
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
Dodia, Niravkumar Prabhatsinh, "Developing and Validating Thermodynamic Models for Evaporative Cooling Employed in Data centers" (2015). Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses. 854.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/mechaerospace_theses/854
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington