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Free Webinar: Advanced Concepts in Designing and Retrofitting Energy Efficient Data Centers, October 8, 9 am - 12 pm PT
Event Description
The class will focus on how to select, design, control, and commission the mechanical systems with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) for a given data center. TCO accounts for first cost (including electrical, architectural, and structural impacts), reliability, complexity/simplicity, energy efficiency, maintenance costs, future growth, and flexibility. The class will make liberal use of real data center case studies for both new construction and retrofits. Mechanical systems evaluated will include packaged/custom direct expansion (DX) with air economizers, direct/indirect evaporative cooling, pumped refrigerant economizers, various chilled water systems including in-row cooling and waterside economizers, air-cooled chillers with integrated dry-coolers, liquid-cooled racks, and liquid-cooled servers. One area of focus will be control design and commissioning. This section will cover both Direct Digital Control (DDC) and Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems, various control redundancy options, failsafe device configuration, optimizing/simplifying sequences of operation, and controls commissioning. The class will also review the ASHRAE TC9.9 Thermal Guidelines and other standards of care for control of temperature, humidity, gaseous contaminants, and particulates. Lastly, the class will cover the growing use of data center heat recovery for building electrification. This is an advanced-level course for owners, operators, engineers, contractors, colocation tenants, etc., with at least two years of data center experience.
Learning Objectives -
- Describe the different types of data centers
- Understand data center environmental requirements
- Explain key components of a data center basis of design
- Understand different data center mechanical system types
- Evaluate how to select an HVAC system for a new data center
- Describe the critical aspects of data center controls system design
- Describe the critical commissioning tasks for a data center
- Know how to evaluate and improve the reliability and efficiency of an existing data center
- Understand the opportunities for data center heat recovery and electrification
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- Types of data centers
- IT environmental requirements
- HVAC design options
- Controls design
- Commissioning
- Retrofits (for efficiency and reliability)
- Data center heat recovery/electrification
Jeff Stein is a Principal at Taylor Engineers, where he has worked for over 24 years. He has designed and commissioned the HVAC systems for many offices, data centers, schools, and other commercial and institutional buildings. He has also retrofitted and retro-commissioned dozens of existing data centers to improve reliability and efficiency. He has authored or collaborated on dozens of changes to Title 24 and ASHRAE 90.1 over the last 20 years, including most of the data center requirements covered in this seminar.
Brandon Gill
Brandon Gill is a Principal at Taylor Engineers, where he has worked for over 10 years. His expertise includes hydronic system and data center control system design and commissioning. He was a Principal Investigator for an ASHRAE research project that developed best-in-class sequences for chilled water plants. Mr. Gill and Mr. Stein co-authored the cover story in the October 2018 ASHRAE Journal on Data Center Controls Reliability.
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