Ground-source thermal system for rejecting data center waste heat to a facility
AssigneeSchlumberger Technology Corporation
InventorsMatthieu Simon, Cindy Demichel, Olivier Lecoq, Carlos Merino, Sylvain Thierry, Rafael Vinit
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Abstract
A thermal system includes a borehole heat exchanger, a facility having a peak heating load, a data center including at least one heat generating electronic component, and a ground-source heat pump. The data center, the borehole heat exchanger, and the ground-source heat pump are connected in a dynamic downhole fluid circuit with a flow of a downhole fluid. The dynamic downhole fluid circuit is configured to reject heat from the data center to the facility and to the BHE, and a power capacity of the data center is less than the peak heating load of the facility.
Claims14
A thermal system, comprising:
- a borehole heat exchanger (BHE);
- a facility having a peak heating load;
- a data center including at least one heat generating electronic component;
- a ground-source heat pump (GSHP);
- and
- a dynamic downhole fluid circuit for connecting the data center, the BHE, and the GSHP with a flow of a downhole fluid;
- wherein:
- in a first operating mode, the dynamic downhole fluid circuit is configured to reject heat from the data center to the facility and to the BHE;
- in a second operating mode, the dynamic downhole fluid circuit is configured to reject the heat from the data center to the facility and to reject heat from the BHE to the facility;
- in a third operating mode, the dynamic downhole fluid circuit is configured to reject the heat from the data center directly to the BHE and the GSHP is off;
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- a power capacity of the data center is less than the peak heating load of the facility.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.