THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

Jinhui Zhao

,

Panle Wang

,

Jingshun Li

,

Tianwei Gu

,

Jiaxu Lu

ENERGY-SAVING AND EMISSION REDUCTION SYSTEM OF DATA CENTER HEAT PIPE BASED ON LATENT HEAT OF WATER EVAPORATION

ABSTRACT
To address the current problem of high energy consumption in data centers, this paper proposes a data center heat pipe air-conditioning system based on the latent heat of water evaporation, which uses the latent heat of water evaporation for cooling by creating a low pressure environment to evaporate large amounts of water. In order to verify the effect of the system, a heat pipe test bench based on the latent heat of water evaporation was designed and built. Compared with the traditional heat pipe in the data center for heat dissipation, the performance and economy of the water evaporation latent heat pipe system designed in this paper are analyzed experimentally. A multi-physics coupled model of water evaporation latent heat pipe air-conditioning based on COMSOL Multiphysics was established to simulate and study the temperature field and velocity field distribution of water evaporation latent heat pipe air-conditioning system in data centers. The research shows that: - Under the designed test conditions, compared with the traditional heat pipe system, the water evaporation latent heat pipe air conditioner can conduct 2540 kJ more heat in one day in an outdoor environment of 24°C. - At an ambient temperature of 35°C and an indoor temperature of 25.8 °C, the cooling capacity of the heat pipe in the data center water evaporation latent heat pipe air-conditioning system is twice the cooling capacity of the air conditioner, and the heat pipe can work efficiently regardless of the outdoor ambient temperature. - The energy-saving effect of the latent heat pipe of water evaporation in the data center has a significant effect on air conditioners with an energy efficiency rating (EER) lower than 2.5-4.4. It can improve the energy efficiency of level 5 with an EER of 2.5 to level 2 with an EER of 3.22, greatly reducing the power consumption of the data center air-conditioning system. When the EER of the air conditioner exceeds 4.4, the coefficient of performance of the data center water evaporation latent heat pipe air-conditioning system will be lower than that of the air conditioner itself.
KEYWORDS
data centre, latent heat of water evaporation, heat pipe, energy saving and emission reduction, numerical simulation
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2022-05-18
PAPER REVISED: 2022-07-20
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2022-08-19
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2022-10-29
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI2205475Z
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2022, VOLUME 26, ISSUE Issue 5, PAGES [4475 - 4487]
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