| Data Center Demonstation of Free-cooling Air conditioning system using Hydrothermal energy in Deep dam water for 100 RT-class |
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학술지명 ICOLD-CIGB 2025
저자 조용,최종웅,조현식,안수황
발표일 2025-05-16
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Climate crisis such as environmental problems related to energy supply is getting emerged issues, so use of renewable energy is essentially required to solve these problems which mainly managed from the Paris Agreement about international treaty on climate change. The government of Republic of Korea announced that the key long-term goal for low-carbon strategy is “A carbon neutrality by 2050”. It is focused on the role of the internet data centers (IDC) in which large amounts of data, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data as an impact of the 4th industrial revolution, are managed. Demand of cooling system market for IDC was about 9 billion US Dollar in 2020, and 15.6% growth a year is expected in Korea. It is important to control temperature in IDC with efficient air conditioning system, so hydrothermal energy is one of the best options for saving energy in cooling system. In order to save energy and optimize the operating conditions, it has been considered to apply ‘dam deep water’ air conditioning system. Deep water at specific level from dam can supply constant water temperature year-round. It was tested and analyzed the amount of energy saving with a pilot-plant where has 100 RT cooling capacity. Also, target of this project is 1.2 PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) which is key parameter to check efficiency of cooling system. As the results, the test results were PUE value less than 1.1 and energy savings of more than 70% were achieved compared to air cooling sources. |