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ENCIT 2018
Brazilian Congress of Thermal Sciences and Engineering
ANALYSIS OF THE AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM OF A DATA CENTER USING THERMOGRAPHY AND CFD
Submission Author:
João Marcos Gomes Vieira , MG , Brazil
Co-Authors:
Glycon Pena de Souza Barros, Hélio Augusto Goulart Diniz, Maria Clara de Lacerda Peixoto, Zozimo Valdivino da Silva, João Marcos Gomes Vieira
Presenter: João Marcos Gomes Vieira
doi://10.26678/ABCM.ENCIT2018.CIT18-0690
Abstract
A data processing center is an ambient designed to allocate servers for data processing and storage, in addition to network asset systems, such as switches and routers. In order to house lots of equipments to process large amounts of data, they are usually organized in racks. These metal structures have a cooling system to keep equipment temperature within a safe operating standard. In this paper, an analysis of the temperatures in the racks and an analysis of the airflow behavior in the room of a data center were performed in order to determine the thermal load of this environment for the correct design of the air conditioning system. The technique of thermography was applied to analyze the temperatures in the racks and the application of the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) tool made possible the evaluation of the airflow in the room and determination of the thermal load dissipated by the equipment. Different values of this variable were inferred and input in the CFD model, to calculate the temperatures in the racks. The behavior of the temperatures was verified so that they were equal to the thermograms obtained by the thermal camera. The process was performed countless times until the convergence and determination of the thermal load of the room.
Keywords
Thermography, CFD, data center
