• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.314-319
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• 2011

Energy Cost has been rapidly increased with the internal heat gain of data center to keep the temperature condition. But the cooling units for server systems are fully operated to satisfy the indoor temperature condition, it results in the excessive energy consumption. In this study, various cooling systems were studied for data center and cold aisle containment system was proved to be the best solution for server cooling system. Because it protects the cooling zone from the hot aisle space. Effective cooling and prohibition of recirculation air from hot aisle was possible by the cold aisle containment system.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.79-84
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• 2013

In this study, a cold aisle containment system was proposed among various strategies to reduce the energy waste by recirculation air from the hot aisle. To verify the effectiveness of the cold aisle containment system, a test bed which is similar to an actually existing server room was set up in the Internet Data Center(IDC) building. Comparative experiments, conventional open type cooling system and cold aisle containment system were carried out under actual conditions. The result revealed that the range of inlet temperature of the server system was $20{\sim}25^{\circ}C$ in an existing cooling system and the range of inlet temperature dropped below $20^{\circ}C$ by the cold aisle containment system. After all, cold aisle containment system was proved to be the solution for energy saving cooling system.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.205-212
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• 2010

In a typical data center, large numbers of IT sever racks are arranged multiple rows. IT environments, in which extensive electronic hardware is air-cooled, cooling system inefficiencies result when heated exhaust air from equipment prematurely mixes with chilled coolant air before it is used for cooling. Mixing of chilled air before its use with heated exhaust air results in significant cooling inefficiencies in many systems. Over temperatures may not only harm expensive electronic equipment but also interrupt critical and revenue generating services. Cool shield is a cost effective aisle partition system to contain the air in cold aisles and hot aisles of an IT server room. This paper focuses on the use of performance metrics for analyzing aisle partition system in data centers.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.726-733
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• 2016

In this study, a computer simulation of the three types of air distribution systems, open type system, aisle partition system and aisle containment system, to evaluate the applicability of the aisle partition system on a data center server room. The variables of the simulation were the height and location of the partition fixed on the top server rack. The energy efficiency of the air distribution systems were confirmed to be excellent in the order of the aisle containment system, aisle partition system, and open type system. In the cold aisle partition system, the height of the partition that can be effective in saving cooling energy by obstructing sufficient air recirculation was found to be more than 0.9m. In the hot aisle partition system, the height of the partition was found to be more than 0.8m.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.183-184
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 데이터 센터 내 전력 효율화에 기여할 수 있는 랙 단위 공조방식에 대하여 제안한다. 스마트 폰과 태블릿 등 모바일 디바이스의 확산으로 디지털 콘텐츠와 데이터가 폭발적으로 증가하면서 데이터 센터의 수는 연평균 30%이상 증가하고 있다. 따라서 데이터 센터 내 냉방장비 영역의 효율성을 증가시킬 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 본 연구는 데이터 센터의 냉각비용을 증가시키는 전력 사용량을 줄이고자 진행되었으며 3종류의 냉각 아키텍처 방식 중 랙 단위 아키텍처가 불필요한 냉각 전력 소비를 줄인다는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.98-100
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• 2012

컴퓨팅 성능향상과 장비의 증가는 전력소비의 증가로 이어져 데이터센터 경영자에게 운영경비의 증가로 피할 수 없는 중요한 문제가 되었다. 그래서 미국의 데이터센터에서는 에너지 효율화 지수인 PUE(Power Usage Effectiveness)를 표준지수로 정하고 에너지소비를 관리하고 있다. 데이터센터에서 소비되는 에너지에서 IT부문과 비IT부문의 에너지 소비비율은 50:50 비율이다. IT장비는 처음 도입 시 에너지 효율적인 장비를 도입하면 컴퓨터 운영상에서 에너지를 절감할 기회는 많지가 않지만, 비IT부문은 설비운영적인 측면으로 안정성을 고려하면서 동시에 효율적인 운영환경을 유지하는 것이 가능하다. 본 문서에서는 비IT부문에서 전산실 장비의 열복도-냉복도 분리 배치가 에너지 절감효과가 어느 정도인지 실험을 하였으며, 그 실험결과를 기술하였다.