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Reliability Risks Under Free Air Cooling

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Free air cooling is one of the cooling methods best know for the energy savings it offers in data centers and is increasingly accepted by the industry. Due to the potential energy savings, the “EU Code of Conduct on Data Centers” and the 2010 version of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 90.1 recommend free air cooling as the preferred cooling method in data centers. But, under free air cooling, operating environments usually go beyond those in traditional data centers and in standards, which may causes potential reliability risks to equipment in data centers. This chapter summarizes the risks arising from the modified free air cooling environment, and discusses the potential failure mechanisms and test methods for the reliability of equipment in data centers.

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    Jun Dai, Diganta Das & Michael G. Pecht

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Michael M. Ohadi

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Dai, J., Ohadi, M.M., Das, D., Pecht, M.G. (2014). Reliability Risks Under Free Air Cooling. In: Optimum Cooling of Data Centers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5602-5_5

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