doi: 10.7763/IJCTE.2013.V5.690
Powering and Cooling of a Server Room Using a Hybrid Trigeneration System
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G. Fabbri1
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C. Boccaletti2 ,
A. J. M. Cardoso3
- 1Instituto de Telecomunicações, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pólo II – Pinhal de Marrocos, P3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal.
- 2Department of Astronautics, Electrical and Energetic Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
- 3Department of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, and also with the Instituto de Telecomunicações.
Abstract
This paper analyses the potential of feeding a Server Room through a hybrid trigeneration plant supplying electricity and cooling. The system is made up of a solar concentrating collector, combined with a single stage lithium bromide absorber machine. Such a system is able to provide the three energy vectors required according to the size and the characteristic of the load. Models of the main components have been developed using Simulink and different operating conditions are considered and simulated in a practical application. The results obtained confirm the validity of the proposed hybrid trigeneration system, highlighting the need of different and innovative ways to generate power locally in Distributed Generation (DG).
Keywords
- Absorption machine
- concentrating photovoltaics
- distributed generation
- trigeneration
How to Cite
L. Petrucci, G. Fabbri, C. Boccaletti, and A. J. M. Cardoso, "Powering and Cooling of a Server Room Using a Hybrid Trigeneration System," International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 263-267, 2013. https://doi.org/10.7763/IJCTE.2013.V5.690
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Copyright © 2013 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).