AMILABS
Thermoelectric Green Server Prototypes
AMILABS is conducting ongoing research and experiments into the use of
Thermoelectric generation as a means to co-generate usable free energy
from enterprise data center assets.
Thermoelectric science and technology has been
available for many decades and is mostly used in cooling
applications. However, using commercial or possibly
custom made Thermoelectric Generation(TEG) modules,
optimized for power generation, usable energy can be generated
continually for little to no cost for the life of a server, router
or switch system.
A significant amount of free energy can be
generated 24 hours a day for the life of a server or router/switch
systems when scaled, thus effectively turning
your data center assets into a small power generation utility. This
additional energy generated can be used to power other data center
devices, conduct other work without the need for additional grid
supplied power plus offset the
power requirements of the data center to reduce energy costs.
A Truly Green
Server
AMILABS has developed the first ever
Thermoelectric Green Server™ or
ThermoGreen Server™(patent
pending) using commercial TEGs from various TEG manufactures.
Tellurex,
Watronix,
Melcore,
Thermal enterprises, and
Hi-Z
are the initial TEG
manufactures' currently used in AMILABS prototype development and
ongoing research of additional ThermoGreen Servers. The use of
future state of the art Thermoelectronic components may also be
applied to the ThermoGreen Server™ from companies such as
Nextreme Thermal Solutions and
Power Chips when such components are available commercially.
AMILABS is currently developing additional
prototype ThermoGreen Systems™ and testing various TEGs from the
following manufactures listed earlier for optimal power output
efficiency. A prototype ThermoGreen Router™ and
ThermoGreen Switch™
plus
other ThermoGreen computing devices are also being developed.
Scaling this solution can result in a significant
amount of free energy for many uses, thus basically turning your
existing server farm into a small power generating utility right in
your data center.
The cooling conditions will continue to be the
same for each server, for each TEG within a server adds very
little to the server’s internal thermal budget. The use of TEGs
offers a solution with no moving parts, long meantime between
failure and continued operation even if a TEG fails.
This additional approach to the greening of the data center
and servers can also apply to other data center devices such as
routers, switches, firewalls and general computing appliances. AMILABS
believes that its solution complements the many current practices
employed today in data centers to reduce energy costs as well as
being environmentally aware. One such possible use is to use energy
from data center assets to assist in powering DC based systems such
as those from
Rackable Systems or for UPS charging.
AMILABS has developed a platform neutral
RoHS compliant energy solution that can be integrated into many different types of server systems
such as rack based servers, towers and blade systems. Many unique
possibilities of TEG integration are available for servers and other
data center assets. With the advent of lower power and cooler
optical based chipsets there are continued possibilities to still
generate energy from waste heat sources in many types of data center
assets. AMILABS is hoping to assist in the energy and environmental
challenges facing data centers today and is confident its solution
will be accepted by the many IT related green organizations such as
The Green Grid,
EPEAT,
The 80Plus Program,
GreenBiz,
Greencomputing and
RoHS to name a few. AMILABS has developed a usable
ThermoGreen Server™
which could also be nicknamed
TG Server™.
AMILABS currently has several,
patent pending,
prototype units built and is working on production units to be
deployed in one of its clients.
In a venture such as AMILABS
ThermoGreen Systems, our intellectual properties are our primary
assets. Some of our intellectual properties may include formal U.S.
and foreign patent applications, issued patents, trademarks,
copyrights, trade secrets, design methods and approaches plus
functional prototypes.
For more information
about this project and new developments please contact:
jsicuran@amilabs.com
