Rapid cooling of wind power at communication base stations

Can wind energy be used to power mobile phone base stations?

Worldwide thousands of base stations provide relaying mobile phone signals. Every off-grid base station has a diesel generator up to 4 kW to provide electricity for the electronic equipment involved. The presentation will give attention to the requirements on using windenergy as an energy source for powering mobile phone base stations.

Are data centres and telecommunication base stations energy-saving?

Data centres (DCs) and telecommunication base stations (TBSs) are energy intensive with ∼40% of the energy consumption for cooling. Here, we provide a comprehensive review on recent research on energy-saving technologies for cooling DCs and TBSs, covering free-cooling, liquid-cooling, two-phase cooling and thermal energy storage based cooling.

Why is temperature control important in unattended mobile base stations and cell towers?

Due to the limited access for repair and maintenance of base station and cell towers, long life operation is required Temperature control of sensitive telecom electronics in unattended mobile base stations and cell towers is vital for the operation of primary and back-up systems.

How does heat affect the performance of a cell tower?

Heat can significantly degrade the performance and operating life of telecom cabinets, energy storage systems and back-up battery systems. Mobile base station and cell tower equipment operate 24/7 with a continuous load that generates heat.

Can a heat pipe system reduce the peak temperature of a server?

Their computational study showed that the system could reduce the peak temperature of the server from 75.8 °C to 68.8 °C and enhance the PUE from 2.0 to 1.7 (Yu et al., 2019). Ding et al. (2017) proposed a separated heat pipe system with evaporators incorporated directly in the rack for DC cooling (Fig. 13).

How does a DC & TBS cooling system work?

Cooling methods and performance The cooling of DCs and TBSs is mainly achieved using computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units, which consists of a vapour compression refrigeration system for cooling and a cold/hot aisle layout (Fig. 3) (Nada et al., 2016).