Week 9 – Fuel Cell Data Center Blog

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For our fuel cell cooling system, we have attached the hoses on the system. We plan to test the water circulation once our shipment of larger hose clamps comes in and we can safely be able to test it.

For our MATLAB model, we have found data for the annual PM 2.5 emissions from power plants. PM 2.5 refers to the small carbon particles emitted from carbon sources such as power generation plants, that are particularly harmful for human health, and are of great interest to air quality experts. Given that data centers contribute to about 2% of all electricity generated from powerplants, we can figure out how much data centers contribute to PM 2.5 production. Another concept we can look into is the social cost of carbon. This is a cost estimate of damages avoided from carbon.

For our PV panel testing, the circuit has been completed after we ran into some problems with the soldering.