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EPFL2023

Operational Map And Thermal Performance Of A Thermosyphon Cooling System For Compact Servers

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Filippo Cataldo, Raffaele Luca Amalfi

This paper advances the state-of-the-art in novel passive two-phase systems for more efficient cooling of datacenters and telecom central offices compared to the traditional air-based cooling solutions (e.g. aisle-based containment systems). The proposed p ...

AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS2021

Multi-Objective Management of Multiprocessor Systems: From Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning

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In my thesis, I reveal several already-existing and emerging challenges in multi-objective management of multiprocessor systems, and address them through novel solutions, from heuristics to RL, depending on the complexity of the problem. Conventional multi ...

EPFL2020

Enhancing Two-Phase Cooling Efficiency through Thermal- Aware Workload Mapping for Power-Hungry Servers

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The power density and, consequently, power hungriness of server processors is growing by the day. Traditional air cooling systems fail to cope with such high heat densities, whereas single-phase liquid-cooling still requires high mass flowrate, high pumpin ...

IEEE and ACM Press2019

A Modular Timber Construction System for the Sustainable Vertical Extension of Office Buildings

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Most European cities are facing urban densification issues. In this context, a solution to create usable spaces without additional pressure on land consists in the vertical extension of existing buildings. Given their abundance in the building stock, terti ...

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A data-driven model for the air-cooling condenser of large-scale coal-fired power plants based on data reconciliation and support vector regression

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Ligang Wang, Jean-Loup Sylvain Robineau, Xiang Li

The performance of a direct air-cooling condenser under operation is rather complicated, as it is interactively affected by the operating conditions (e.g., the mode of air fans) and ambient conditions (e.g., temperature and wind speed). To understand the c ...

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Identification of optimal operating strategy of direct air-cooling condenser for Rankine cycle based power plants

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Direct air-cooling condenser has attracted significant attention in the last decade due to the employment of Rankine-cycle based power plants from renewable (e.g., concentrated solar) or traditional (e.g., coal) heat sources in water-scarce areas. The opti ...

2018

Small, High-Speed, Oil-Free Radial Turbo-compressors for Cooling Applications: Refrigerant Selection

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

Emerging energy-efficient, oil-free radial centrifugal compressors seem promising for small to mid-capacity air conditioning and refrigeration applications. Compressor design must balance trade-offs among impeller diameter, bearing type, and refrigerant se ...

2018

District heating and cooling energy network using CO2 as a heat and mass transfer fluid

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Luc Girardin, Samuel Henchoz

The 5th generation compact district heating and cooling networks in a temperature range of 10 to 16 °C have a great potential for energy savings by providing a heat source for decentralized heating heat pumps, a cold source for air-conditioning and a heat ...

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Working Space – An innovative modular timber construction system for the sustainable vertical extension of office buildings

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Urban densification issues are one of the key challenges for most European cities. In this context, the vertical extension of existing buildings provides a solution to create usable spaces without wasting additional land. Little attention has been given to ...

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