Cooling Environments/Heat Reuse

Welcome

Welcome to the OCP Heat Reuse Sub-Project. Efficient energy usage of data centers is a key global concern and tenant of Open Compute Project (OCP).

ITE and data center design efficiency is just one factor in minimizing the carbon footprint associated with energy usage of a data center - use of renewable resources and reuse of its waste energy can have a positive impact as well.

Almost 100% of the energy used in a processor turns into heat.

Up until very recently this has been a liability and a challenge, immense quantity of heat needed to be removed employing even more energy for it. With the proper design, data center cooling systems can be converted into a heat source and a heat management opportunity that in turn converts the heat from a liability to an asset.

The OCP Heat Reuse subgroup explores these challenges and opportunities. Its goal is to suggest solutions to allow easier implementations of technologies aimed at harnessing the heat and turn it into profit instead of a cost.

This Project is open to the public and we welcome all those who would like to be involved.

Disclaimer: Please do not submit any confidential information to the Project Community. All presentation materials, proposals, meeting minutes and/or supporting documents are published by OCP and are open to the public in accordance to OCP's Bylaws and IP Policy. This can be found on the OCP OCP Policies page. If you have any questions please contact OCP.

Project Leadership

Incubation Committee Representative

- Justin Steadman (Rackspace)

Project Lead

- Bret Lehman (PCX)

- Madhusudan Iyengar (Google)

Sub-project Leads

Main Sub-project Leads email address: heatreuseleads@ocproject.net

- Cosimo Pecchioli (Alfa Laval)

- Jaime Comella (Cloud&Heat)

Documents

HEAT REUSE USE CASES AROUND THE WORLD (input and comments are welcome)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qMOvuaNMWbg29hNUAQ2vAvmIYARtBVwo5Ma5fJEBVRw/edit?usp=sharing

WHITE PAPER preliminary version (input and comments are welcome)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d9acD2vHsFgOONR5IZ56QKeMLJvJ-7u7NVbuiwkuIQM/edit?usp=sharing

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CALENDAR

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XJSZyONA3FZtDtCHIL85R6H3w9-jJvDVlfu3aRYKAJw/edit?usp=sharing

GUEST PRESENTATIONS

2021 10 05 Cloud & Heat - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TLUX1hSPj80qSw-4hZR6Dxm1r8ixuHfK/view?usp=sharing

2021 11 23 Green Mountain - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eTAkymFu6h2DGAT92Rlz_M8ECTpQLZ0Y/view?usp=sharing

2021 12 02 LUMI - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MPJQPl9Xz79R5EgN2X3DWUQTBrJO5PZo/view?usp=sharing

2021 12 14 NREL - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W6hG85K4Oc6wiIk-MxPiFbGH9Q5tVp2N/view?usp=sharing

2022 01 11 Vattenfall - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UTaO-42rAYpMBWFIHcxKLCyfHIKKuGRT/view?usp=sharing

2022 01 25 Carrier - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jQkdSvOtTphPQmzMhMk4IhB_bz6V0JBn/view?usp=sharing

2022 03 08 Telehouse - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Aisd3IeU79h__trNnpyJS5A9Ac6TN2sU/view?usp=sharing

2022 04 19 Blockheating - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D4T6v8YXHSDAI4TX_ye_2DQHmzDfvuzL/view?usp=sharing

2022 05 03 Danfoss - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CQe4nE79F0qCyf2ysbn633uy9Z6UdCtL/view?usp=sharing

2022 05 31 Stanford - https://drive.google.com/file/d/10vktrFh8hY7JAuzhc045Htx1kSkJosFg/view?usp=sharing

2022 07 26 Qarnot - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F9vgCaqMT59rrE0L7dm9UnHdAKU5TQ2H/view?usp=sharing

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS

2022 Heat Reuse Opportunity Summary - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Jp_h_ep0G2mCq8K0KlHLRi9I9fy49T9ZnLesAItAxGU/edit?usp=sharing

Calls Minutes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MbV6Al1wusY18OmKFQNACacP368kHHhthWQK46XcrpA/edit?usp=sharing

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Get Involved

- Heat Reuse Mailing List

- DCF Mailing List

- OCP DCF Website

- OCP Projects Calendar

Regular Project Calls

- This project currently meets every other Tuesday at 1100 ET

Call-in info and source of truth @ http://opencompute.org/projects/projects-calendar/
If there is ever a conflict between calendar invites, the OCP Project Calendar info on the website prevails. This call is open to the public.

Tentative Call info:

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If there is a cancellation, we will try our best to cancel >24hrs before the meeting by the calendars above.

Recordings from Past Calls

- July 12th, 2022

- June 28th, 2022

No call recording on June 14th

- May 31st, 2022

- May 10th, 2022

- April 26th, 2022

- April 19th, 2022

- April 5th, 2022

- March 22nd, 2022

- March 8th, 2022

- February 22nd, 2022

- February 8th, 2022