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Actively controlling coolant-cooled cold plate configuration
Abstract
Cooling apparatuses are provided to facilitate active control of thermal and fluid dynamic performance of a coolant-cooled cold plate. The cooling apparatus includes the cold plate and a controller. The cold plate couples to one or more electronic components to be cooled, and includes an adjustable physical configuration. The controller dynamically varies the adjustable physical configuration of the cold plate based on a monitored variable associated with the cold plate or the electronic component(s) being cooled by the cold plate. By dynamically varying the physical configuration, the thermal and fluid dynamic performance of the cold plate are adjusted to, for example, optimally cool the electronic component(s), and at the same time, reduce cooling power consumption used in cooling the electronic component(s). The physical configuration can be adjusted by providing one or more adjustable plates within the cold plate, the positioning of which may be adjusted based on the monitored variable.
- Inventors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1248812
- Patent Number(s):
- 9,326,429
- Application Number:
- 13/604,850
- Assignee:
- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, NY)
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0002894
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 2012 Sep 06
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
Citation Formats
Chainer, Timothy J., and Parida, Pritish R. Actively controlling coolant-cooled cold plate configuration. United States: N. p., 2016.
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Chainer, Timothy J., & Parida, Pritish R. Actively controlling coolant-cooled cold plate configuration. United States.
Chainer, Timothy J., and Parida, Pritish R. 2016.
"Actively controlling coolant-cooled cold plate configuration". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1248812.
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abstractNote = {Cooling apparatuses are provided to facilitate active control of thermal and fluid dynamic performance of a coolant-cooled cold plate. The cooling apparatus includes the cold plate and a controller. The cold plate couples to one or more electronic components to be cooled, and includes an adjustable physical configuration. The controller dynamically varies the adjustable physical configuration of the cold plate based on a monitored variable associated with the cold plate or the electronic component(s) being cooled by the cold plate. By dynamically varying the physical configuration, the thermal and fluid dynamic performance of the cold plate are adjusted to, for example, optimally cool the electronic component(s), and at the same time, reduce cooling power consumption used in cooling the electronic component(s). The physical configuration can be adjusted by providing one or more adjustable plates within the cold plate, the positioning of which may be adjusted based on the monitored variable.},
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