The design and construction of a bench-top Organic Rankine Cycle for data center applications

Sebastian Araya; Gerard F. Jones; Amy S. Fleischer

doi:10.1109/ITHERM.2016.7517577

The design and construction of a bench-top Organic Rankine Cycle for data center applications

Sebastian Araya, Gerard F. Jones, Amy S. Fleischer

Villanova University

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Abstract

The growing demand for data center utilization and the resulting increases in energy requirements are creating significant challenges for data center operators and for thermal designers. Design options which can cool the servers efficiently while also reducing electricity usage are thus of considerable interest. One potential technique is the use of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology which can absorb the server heat into an organic fluid and then use this heat in a power cycle to create electricity. The ORC has been found to match well with data center requirements and this paper presents the analysis of an ORC system matched with data center operating conditions and the design of an ORC test bed. The ORC test bed is designed for 20kW of waste heat collected from 2 full racks. The complete design includes the ORC power cycle and one secondary cycle as heat source. Component selection has been carefully studied in each of the two cycles. The main goals of this investigation are the steady-state characterization of an ORC under different data center operating conditions and the design of a test bed which will prove out the concept of mating ORC with data center conditions for potential customers who are seeking alternatives for data center waste heat recovery.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	404-408
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467381215
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHERM.2016.7517577
State	Published - 20 Jul 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016 - Las Vegas, United States Duration: 31 May 2016 → 3 Jun 2016

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Name	Proceedings of the 15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016

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Conference	15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas
Period	31/05/16 → 3/06/16

Keywords

Organic Rankine cycle
bench-top
construction
data center
design
test-bed
waste heat recovery

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Araya, S., Jones, G. F., & Fleischer, A. S. (2016). The design and construction of a bench-top Organic Rankine Cycle for data center applications. In Proceedings of the 15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016 (pp. 404-408). Article 7517577 (Proceedings of the 15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHERM.2016.7517577

Araya, Sebastian ; Jones, Gerard F. ; Fleischer, Amy S. / The design and construction of a bench-top Organic Rankine Cycle for data center applications. Proceedings of the 15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. pp. 404-408 (Proceedings of the 15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016).

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Araya, S, Jones, GF & Fleischer, AS 2016, The design and construction of a bench-top Organic Rankine Cycle for data center applications. in Proceedings of the 15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016., 7517577, Proceedings of the 15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 404-408, 15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016, Las Vegas, United States, 31/05/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHERM.2016.7517577

The design and construction of a bench-top Organic Rankine Cycle for data center applications. / Araya, Sebastian; Jones, Gerard F.; Fleischer, Amy S.
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Araya S, Jones GF, Fleischer AS. The design and construction of a bench-top Organic Rankine Cycle for data center applications. In Proceedings of the 15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016. p. 404-408. 7517577. (Proceedings of the 15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016). doi: 10.1109/ITHERM.2016.7517577

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