NDLI: Hot Water Cooled Electronics for High Exergetic Utility

Content Provider	The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collection
Author	Zimmermann, Severin Manish, K. Tiwari Meijer, Ingmar Michel, Bruno Poulikakos, Dimos
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Cooling poses as a major challenge in the IT industry because recent trends have led to more compact and energy intensive microprocessors. Typically microprocessors in current consumer devices and state-of-the-art data centers are cooled using relatively bulky air cooled heat sinks. The large size heat sinks are required due to the poor thermophysical properties of air. In order to compensate for the poor thermal properties of air, it is typical to use chillers to pre-cool the air below the ambient temperature before feeding it to the heat sinks. Operating the chillers requires additional power input thereby making the cooling process more expensive. The growing cooling demand of electronic components will, however, render these cooling techniques insufficient. Direct application of liquid-cooling on chip level using directly attached manifold microchannel heat sinks reduces conductive and convective resistances, resulting in the reduction of the thermal gradient needed to remove heat. Water is an inexpensive, nontoxic and widely available liquid coolant. Therefore, switching from air to water as coolant enables a much higher coolant inlet temperature without in any way compromising the cooling performance. In addition, it eliminates the need for chillers and allows the thermal energy to be reused. All these improvements lead to higher thermal efficiency and open up the possibility to perform electronic cooling with higher exergetic efficiency. The current work explores this concept using measurements and exergetic analyses of a manifold microchannel heat sink and a small scale, first of its kind, hot water cooled data center prototype. Through the measurements on the heat sink, it is demonstrated that the heat load in the state-of-the-art microprocessor chips can be removed using hot water with inlet temperature of 60°C. Using hot water as coolant results in high coolant exergy content at the heat sink outlet. This facilitates recovering the energy typically wasted as heat in data centers, and can therefore result in data centers with minimal carbon footprint. The measurements on both the heat sink and the data center prototype strongly attest to this concept. Reuse strategies such as space heating and adsorption based refrigeration were tested as potential means to use the waste heat from data centers in different climates. Application-specific definitions of the value of waste heat were formulated as economic measures to evaluate potential benefits of various reuse strategies.
Sponsorship	Heat Transfer Division
Starting Page	373
Ending Page	380
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780791844779
DOI	10.1115/HT2012-58432
Volume Number	Volume 1: Heat Transfer in Energy Systems; Theory and Fundamental Research; Aerospace Heat Transfer; Gas Turbine Heat Transfer; Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing and Manufacturing; Heat and Mass Transfer in Biotechnology; Environmental Heat Transfer; Visualization of Heat Transfer; Education and Future Directions in Heat Transfer
Conference Proceedings	ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels
Language	English
Publisher Date	2012-07-08
Publisher Place	Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Water Temperature Climate Electronic components Electronics Microchannels Manifolds Integrated circuits Coolants Heat sinks Cooling Computer cooling Carbon Hot water Stress Thermal energy Temperature gradient Thermal properties Data centers Heat Heating Exergy Thermal efficiency Waste heat Refrigeration Engineering prototypes
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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