Volume 11: Sustainable Energy Solutions for Changing the World: Part III

Synergy Optimization Analysis of Heat Transfer Process and Its Application in Data Centers Zhiguang He，Haonan Xi，Jianmin Wang，Zhen Li

Abstract

The power consumption of pumps and fans is quite high in the transport systems, especially in data centers. Nearly 60% of the computer room air conditioning (CRAC) system’s energy consumption is consumed by pumps and fans in winter. In this paper, a synergy optimization method is proposed to save energy in heat transfer process. The heat transfer constraint equations of the heat transfer process are established, and taking the highest energy efficiency as the objective function, the synergistic relationship between the power consumption and temperature difference is derived analytically by using variation principle. A synergy operation factor is defined to guide the practical operation optimization of heat transfer process. The closer the synergy operation factor is to 1, the higher the system energy efficiency is. An experiment of a separated heat pipe system is carried out to verify the accuracy of the synergy optimization analysis.

Keywords synergy optimization analysis, heat transfer, energy saving, data center