The National Security Agency (NSA) has announced plans to use 5 million gallons per day of treated wastewater from Howard County in Maryland to cool its huge Fort Meade data center, which is expected to be completed in 2016. According to The Baltimore Sun, the NSA will cover the $40 million required to build the needed pump station, and will pay up to $2 million each year for … [Read more...]
Electrical Field Facilitates Better Heat Transfer
The application of an electric field to a condenser could double the efficiency of surface heat transfer in power plant and high performance computing cooling systems, according to new research released by scientists at MIT. The discovery—made by MIT postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, graduate student Daniel Preston, and former … [Read more...]
Cooling the Cloud: Energy-Efficient Warm-Water Cooling of Servers
Milnes P. David, Robert Simons, David Graybill, Vinod Kamath, Bejoy Kochuparambil, Robert Rainey and Roger Schmidt ; IBM Systems & Technology Group, Poughkeepsie, New York and Raleigh, North Carolina Pritish Parida, Mark Schultz, Michael Gaynes and Timothy Chainer; IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York INTRODUCTION Data centers now consume a … [Read more...]
NASA Considers Solutions for Broken ISS Cooling Pump
NASA announced Sunday that it is considering a series of spacewalks or a resupply mission to fix a broken cooling loop on the International Space Station, which was shut down last week after the malfunction of a flow control valve inside a pump module. According to NASA, the pump module inside one of the space station’s two external cooling loops, which circulate ammonia … [Read more...]
Electrocaloric Effect May Yield More Effective Cooling Systems
British scientists are hoping to replace chemicals used in modern cooling systems with more environmentally-friendly materials that change temperature with the application of electricity. Known as the electrocaloric effect, previous research from 2006 has shown that the phenomenon can be used in cooling applications. According to researchers at the National Physical … [Read more...]
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