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Title: Using Thermosyphon Hybrid Cooling System to Optimize Data Center Water Efficiency

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OSTI ID:1511812

Driven by a mission to push the leading edge for data center sustainability, NREL recognized the need to make its data center not just energy efficient, but water efficient, too. So, in 2016, NREL, with partners Johnson Controls and Sandia National Laboratories, deployed an innovative thermosyphon cooler (TSC) as a test bed on the roof of the NREL's Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF). In combination with existing evaporative towers, the TSC forms an extremely water-and cost-efficient hybrid cooling system.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Federal Energy Management Program Office
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1511812
Report Number(s):
NREL/FS-2C00-73644; DOE/GO-102019-5172
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English