First Clean Energy Project by a Hardware Manufacturer Recycling Heat Using
waste heat for other productive purposes has been a common trend in several
industries. Most industrial waste heat streams are liquid or gaseous or a
combination of the two. Often they have temperatures well above the ambient
temperature, to as high as 2000 degrees F in some cases. The energy that is
recoverable from these streams can easily displace totally or at least partially
the energy input needs of an entire plant.
There are several ways in which heat Christian Louboutin Outlet
Online can be utilized as a source for energysaving. In the household,
for example there are many innovative ways the heat generated from clothes
dryers can be recycled to reduce power consumption. In the industrial
environment, for example, Absorption chillers, Adsorption chillers, Geothermal
Heat pumps etc. are all illustrations of recycling or energy saving
concepts.
However, the technology industry has been slow in adopting methods to reuse
heat to reduce computer power consumption or in other areas. One reason could be
the relative immaturity of the hightech industry. Cooling was a major problem
during the first and second generation days, when large cooling systems were
required for that occupied entire rooms. But, with advancement in technology
with transistors, and chips, the need for cooling came down drastically, and
hence the need for recycling heat was never realized. This innovative system
codenamed as Aquasar, "is expected to decrease the carbon footprint of the
system by up to 85% and estimated to save up to 30 tons of CO2 per year,
compared to similar systems using today's cooling technologies", according to an
IBM press release.
The watercooled supercomputer will consist of two IBM BladeCenter Servers in
one track and will have a peak performance of 10 Teraflops. This liquid cooled
supercomputer research is planned as a threeyear collaborative research program
called Direct ReUse of Waste Christian Louboutin
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Performance, ZeroEmission Computing and Datacenters, which is funded jointly
mainly by IBM, ETH Zrich and the Swiss Competence Center for Energy and Mobility
(CCEM). Part of the system will be devoted to further research into cooling
technologies and efficiencies by scientists of ETH Zrich, ETH Lausanne, the
Swiss Competence Center for Energy and Mobility, and the IBM Zrich Research
LabOnce completed, the Aquasar will be a classic example of the hightech
industry embarking on Green Super Computing, and leading to drastic reduction in
power consumption.
As so aptly put by Dr. Bruno Michel, Manager Advanced Thermal Christian Louboutin
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we rely on and pay dearly for in our everyday lives. If we capture and transport
the waste heat from the active components in a computer system as efficiently as
possible, we can reuse it as a resource, thus saving energy and lowering carbon
emissions. This project is a significant step towards energyaware, emissionfree
computing and data centers,"
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