Towards Greening a Campus Grid: Free Cooling During Unsociable Hours

• Main Authors: Okitsu, Jun, Naono, Ken, Sulaiman, S. A., Zakaria, M.N., Oxley, A.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery; TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/9831/1/From%20Hitachi%20work%20IEEE%2006470501.pdf; http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6470501; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/9831/

Free cooling has become widely used in the area of computer room thermal control, especially where the temperature constraint can be relaxed. However, in tropical regions, such as Malaysia, free cooling cannot be applied all of the time. This paper presents a strategy for grids that allows jobs to...