Coolant and ambient temperature control for chillerless liquid cooled data centers
Abstract
Cooling control methods and systems include measuring a temperature of air provided to one or more nodes by an air-to-liquid heat exchanger; measuring a temperature of at least one component of the one or more nodes and finding a maximum component temperature across all such nodes; comparing the maximum component temperature to a first and second component threshold and comparing the air temperature to a first and second air threshold; and controlling a proportion of coolant flow and a coolant flow rate to the air-to-liquid heat exchanger and the one or more nodes based on the comparisons.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1377817
- Patent Number(s):
- 9750165
- Application Number:
- 14/792,196
- Assignee:
- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F28 - HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL F28F - DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
G - PHYSICS G05 - CONTROLLING G05D - SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0002894
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 2015 Jul 06
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING
Citation Formats
Chainer, Timothy J., David, Milnes P., Iyengar, Madhusudan K., Parida, Pritish R., and Simons, Robert E. Coolant and ambient temperature control for chillerless liquid cooled data centers. United States: N. p., 2017.
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Chainer, Timothy J., David, Milnes P., Iyengar, Madhusudan K., Parida, Pritish R., & Simons, Robert E. Coolant and ambient temperature control for chillerless liquid cooled data centers. United States.
Chainer, Timothy J., David, Milnes P., Iyengar, Madhusudan K., Parida, Pritish R., and Simons, Robert E. Tue .
"Coolant and ambient temperature control for chillerless liquid cooled data centers". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1377817.
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abstractNote = {Cooling control methods and systems include measuring a temperature of air provided to one or more nodes by an air-to-liquid heat exchanger; measuring a temperature of at least one component of the one or more nodes and finding a maximum component temperature across all such nodes; comparing the maximum component temperature to a first and second component threshold and comparing the air temperature to a first and second air threshold; and controlling a proportion of coolant flow and a coolant flow rate to the air-to-liquid heat exchanger and the one or more nodes based on the comparisons.},
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