Graduation Semester and Year
2018
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
First Advisor
Dereje Agonafer
Abstract
With the increasing load on the servers, the cost and energy required to cool a data center has been on the rise. This has kept the researchers to explore more efficient and economical cooling technologies for data centers. One such technology is evaporative cooling. The evaporative cooling systems are one of the most effective methods available for cooling the data centers. So, developing the generic methods for the thermal design of data centers is of utmost importance. This research aims to identify, develop and validate the thermal model for Direct Evaporative Cooling and Indirect Evaporative Cooling. By taking the environmental data of each location and server rack specifications as inputs, the performance and cost analysis are done. Strategies to cope with system component failures have also been considered by the model. A tool, that works on the identified methods has been developed. The tool gives the performance results, the cost analysis and a comparison between direct and indirect evaporative cooling, allowing the user to make decisions on the type of cooling that can be used for specific environmental conditions.
Keywords
Data center, Thermal design, Evaporative cooling, Analytical modeling, MATLAB, Tool
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
Parinam, Raghvendra, "GENERAL METHODS FOR THE THERMAL DESIGN OF DATA CENTERS BASED ON EVAPORATIVE COOLING" (2018). Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses. 893.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/mechaerospace_theses/893
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington