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Liquid-cooled IT equipment in data centers.
Vzduchotechnika v jaderných elektrárnách. 3.
Ventilation systems in nuclear power plants. 3.
Improving operating room contamination control.
Energy-efficient HVAC systems for labs.
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Evaluation of variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems performance in ORNL's flexible research platform (FRP).
Energy efficient approach for operating rooms.
Clean air conditioning system design for a stem cell laboratory building.
[In Chinese. / En chinois.]
Experimental investigation and modelling of thermal environment control of air distribution systems for chilled food manufacturing facilities.
Energy saving research of dedicated hydroelectric air-conditioning system for hydropower station.
Performance prediction and calibration of a clean-room air conditioner using an embedded artificial neural network.
Development of zone air-conditioning system for factories using air curtains.
Prediction of COVID-19 infection in dental clinic by CFD and Wells-Riley model, identifying safe area and proper ventilation velocity.
Construction of fans for industrial process and power generation applications.
Challenges and opportunities in the management of refrigeration and air conditioning systems to reduce environmental impacts in the Colombian health sector.
Manifolding laboratory exhaust systems.
Refrigeration sector monitoring
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Techniques of humidification in data centres
An interesting overview of the recent improvement in data centres humidification techniques.
“World’s largest” data centre to be built in Norway
A data centre in Ballangen, in Norway, will be entirely powered with renewable energy.
ASHRAE publishes the Energy Standard 90.4 for Data Centers
Data centers consume significant amounts of electricity. ASHRAE publishes a standard to help builders focus on energy efficiency.
Data centres: poor levels of cooling utilisation in UK
According to a recent survey, current average cooling utilisation level is just 34% in UK data centres.
A British data centre is saving money thanks to thermal optimisation
A leading UK data and telecoms provider claims to have saved over £115,000 (€132,000) in cooling energy costs in a few months.
UK: Artificial intelligence and data centre cooling
Data centre traffic being on the rise, many companies are looking at how they can use artificial intelligence to make their data centres more efficient.
The expansion of the data centre cooling market
As the data centre cooling market experiences rapid expansion, innovations in liquid cooling could have a significant impact on the industry.
50% of data center cooling systems soon upgraded in North America
According to Emerson Network Power, half of all data center cooling systems in North America will be upgraded before the end of 2016 in a drive for greater reliability, efficiency and additional capacity.
Global Data Center Cooling Solutions Market: 2016-2020
The global data center cooling solutions market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 12 % from 2016 to 2020, according to a market research report from Technavio.
Data centers: immersion cooling project
The world’s most powerful two-phase immersion cooling (2PIC) project, which will be deployed in a 40+ MW data center being constructed by BitFury Group, is currently underway in the Republic of Georgia.
20,000 megabytes under the sea
Microsoft has tested a prototype called Project Natick of a self-contained data center that can operate hundreds of meters below the surface of the ocean off the Pacific coast, reducing the need for expensive cooling.
Nautilus Data Technologies company is building the world’s first floating data center.
Nautilus Data Technologies company is building the world’s first floating data center. This waterborne data center prototype offers hosting, colocation and cloud services for primary computing needs, business continuity and disaster recovery...
Facebook profiles cooled down through polar wind (in French)
The cooling of servers which process most of the data published on our walls uses polar wind.
Data centers: cooling technologies and trends
Over the next five to ten years, the use of traditional computer room air-conditioning units is expected to drop dramatically as data centres opt for a combination of free cooling, liquid cooling and chilled-water cooling.
Energy efficiency of the cooling systems used in data centres is a key issue
The number of data centres has grown to around 45 million worldwide, global energy consumption of data centres has doubled over the last 5 years and currently reaches 123 TWh/year, i.e. 1% of global electricity consumption.
IIR news
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New IIR Informatory Note on passive cooling
The IIR’s latest Informatory Note demonstrates that passive cooling technologies can contribute significantly to reducing energy demand for air conditioning.
New IIR Working Groups focus on core matters in refrigeration
IIR Working Groups (WGs) operate on a temporary basis and bring together specialists to work on projects concerning current technological, social or economic issues linked to refrigeration. Their aim is to promote development, provide knowledge...
ICCC 2020: The most important international cold chain event of the year!
Register today to the IIR Cold Chain Conference 2020. A biennial event of the IIR, the ICCC conference series is recognised worldwide as a cutting-edge event on the cold chain.
Obituary: Pega Hrnjak
The IIR is deeply saddened to learn that Professor Predrag (Pega) Hrnjak passed away on August 31, 2022, at the age of 70.