Reliability and availability assessment and enhancement of water-cooled multi-chiller cooling systems for data centers

被引：29
作者：
Cheung, Howard [1 ]
Wang, Shengwei [1 ]
机构：
[1] Hong Kong Polytech Univ, Dept Bldg Serv Engn, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
来源：
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY | 2019年 / 191卷
关键词：
Data center; Cooling; Reliability; Availability; Chiller; OPTIMAL-DESIGN; CCHP SYSTEM; UNCERTAINTY; ENERGY;
D O I：
10.1016/j.ress.2019.106573
中图分类号：
T [工业技术];
学科分类号：
08 ;
摘要：
There are strict requirements and needs to avoid huge downtime cost for data center cooling systems to operate continuously for reliable data center services. Current design standards achieve this by installing redundant cooling equipment. Other equipment including distribution headers is also used. However, no study is found to quantify the reliability of these designs comprehensively using on-site performance data. It is unknown how much reliability can be improved by adopting these designs or if they are burdens to the cost of systems only. This study quantifies how different data center cooling system configurations enhance the reliability and availability of data centers. The results show that it is crucial to install a redundant chiller or redundant chiller plant with alternative cooling sources to meet the requirement of high-tier data centers, but other common practices such as distribution headers and the 2(N + 1) configuration do not improve the reliability and availability of data center cooling systems effectively.
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