BLU 523E - Cooling and Air-Conditioning in Data Centers

Course Objectives

1. To teach basic principles of HVAC, load and energy consumption calculation
2. To teach basic components of HVAC systems
3. To teach cooling cycles and their thermodynamic analysis
4. To introduce cooling infrastructure of data centers and free cooling techniques
5. To inform about the advances in data center cooling.

Course Description

Psychrometrics, heating and cooling load calculation, HVAC system components, data center cooling infrastructure, vapor compression cycle, absorption cooling systems, free cooling systems in data centers, advanced cooling methods for high density data centers