Huadian Technology ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (3): 76-81.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-1951.2021.03.012

• New Energy • Previous Articles    

Application of building-type distributed energy systems for data centers

CHEN Hui1, LIU Ying2, ZHAO Longsheng1   

  1. 1. Southeast University Architectural Design and Research Institute Company,Nanjing 210096,China
    2. Nanjing Vocational University of Industry Technology, Nanjing 210096,China
  • Received:2020-08-26 Revised:2021-03-05 Online:2021-03-25 Published:2021-03-25

Abstract:

The demand for electricity and cooling load in data centers is large and steady.The cooling-to-power ratio of data centers is close to that of gas-fired distributed energy systems, which means distributed energy systems are suitable for data centers.Through the analysis on the power demand of a data center,a scheme of a distributed energy station with an appropriate scale which can ensure the safe power supply to the data center is designed.The scheme takes internal combustion engine, gas and hot water type LiBr-H2O refrigerator, centrifugal electric refrigerator and cold storage tank,which can realize the green and low-carbon operation of the data center.The gas-fired distributed power supply scheme is made based on a low-carbon energy-supply model. The evaluation results show that this scheme makes full use of the off-peak electricity, reduces operating costs and improves the economy.The power station is economically feasible, with low energy consumption, decent energy saving and emission reduction effect.This scheme is practicable for the data centers wherever there are reasonable carbon trading prices and stable,reliable and cheap gas sources nearby.

Key words: distributed energy system, data center, ambient cooling, energy saving and emission reduction, cooling-to- power ratio, green and low carbon, carbon neutrality, carbon emission peaking

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