Christopher T Healey

US Patent:

20120158375, Jun 21, 2012

Filed:

Dec 21, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/974719

Inventors:

Christopher M. Healey - Chelmsford MA, US

Assignee:

AMERICAN POWER CONVERSION CORPORATION - West Kingston RI

International Classification:

G06F 17/10
G06F 1/20

US Classification:

703 2

Abstract:

A system and method for designing aspects of a cooling system for a data center is provided. A method is provided including computing cooling redundancy at each rack position in a data center, in real time. The redundancy can be reported using the traditional N+1, N+2, etc. notation, where N is the number of coolers required to meet the primary cooling load type specification. The method substantially reduces the computational complexity of computing cooling redundancy.

US Patent:

20120170205, Jul 5, 2012

Filed:

Dec 30, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/982838

Inventors:

Christopher M. Healey - Chelmsford MA, US
Xuanhang Zhang - Tewksbury MA, US

Assignee:

AMERICAN POWER CONVERSION CORPORATION - West Kingston RI

International Classification:

H05K 7/20

US Classification:

36167946

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method for sequential placement of cooling resources in a data center comprises: defining a weighted, higher-order cooling metric, , representing an overall performance of the cooling resources in the data center; enumerating all possible locations in the data center for placing an additional c cooling resources; and placing the c cooling resources in locations in the data center for which is closest to an optimum value. For a performance metric M, the weighted, higher-order cooling performance metric can be defined aswhere R represents a number of racks in the data center, C represents a total number of cooling resources placed in the data center, i represents one of the R racks in the data center, Mrepresents a value of metric Mwhen k cooling resources are shut down, and a(i,k) is a weighting function for rack i with the k cooling resources shut down. A system performing the method and computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions causing a processor to perform the method are also provided.

US Patent:

20130006426, Jan 3, 2013

Filed:

Jun 28, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/171152

Inventors:

Christopher Healey - Chelmsford MA, US
Xuanhang Zhang - Tewksbury MA, US
James W. VanGilder - Pepperell MA, US

International Classification:

G05D 23/19
G06G 7/57
G06G 7/56

US Classification:

700278, 703 9

Abstract:

A system and method for evaluating cooling performance of equipment in a data center, the equipment including a plurality of equipment racks and at least one cooling provider. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a plurality of measured inlet and exhaust air temperature values for the at least one cooling provider and a subset of the plurality of equipment racks, implementing a cooling model, the model including an ambient air temperature value, a plurality of inlet and exhaust air temperature values for the plurality of equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider, and a plurality of airflow values for the plurality of equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider, adjusting at least one of the ambient air temperature value and each of the plurality of airflow values in the cooling model, adjusting the cooling model to compensate for the adjusted at least one of the ambient air temperature value and each of the plurality of airflow values in the cooling model, substituting a first subset of the plurality of inlet and exhaust air temperature values in the cooling model with the plurality of measured inlet and exhaust air temperature values, and predicting a second subset of the plurality of inlet and exhaust air temperature values for the plurality of equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider in the cooling model.

US Patent:

20200257838, Aug 13, 2020

Filed:

Dec 15, 2017

Appl. No.:

16/469832

Inventors:

- West Kingston RI, US
Zachary M. Pardey - Waltham MA, US
Christopher M. Healey - Tewksbury MA, US

International Classification:

G06F 30/28

Abstract:

Systems and methods for a compact wall model are provided. According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a method that comprises receiving input data related to an enclosure, the input data including solar intensity data on an exterior of a wall of the enclosure, generating, by a processor, a thermal model of a wall of the enclosure based at least in part on the input data, the wall modeled as having a plurality of layers and the thermal model including a plurality of nodes such that each layer of the plurality of layers is associated with at least one node of the plurality of nodes and each node of the plurality of nodes is thermally coupled to an adjacent node by a thermal resistance, solving, by the processor, an energy balance equation for the at least one node to determine a predicted temperature for the at least one node, and output the predicted temperature to a display device.

US Patent:

20190115753, Apr 18, 2019

Filed:

Oct 13, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/783187

Inventors:

- West Kingston RI, US
Jonathan Mark Healey - Medford MA, US
Christopher M. Healey - Tewksbury MA, US

International Classification:

H02J 3/00
G05B 13/02
H02J 13/00
H04L 29/08

Abstract:

A method for controlling an energy storage device in an energy storage system includes accessing data stored in a remote cloud storage system where the data including time series data, performing semantic analysis on data accessed in the remote cloud storage system, determining an optimized power cap for a future time of use (TOU) period based on the semantic analysis using an optimization algorithm, and controlling the energy storage device based on the optimized power cap.

US Patent:

20160234972, Aug 11, 2016

Filed:

Feb 8, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/017771

Inventors:

- West Kingston RI, US
Christopher M. Healey - Tewksbury MA, US
Jean-Louis Bergerand - Saint-Martin D'heres, FR
Claude Le Pape-Gardeux - Grenoble, FR
James William VanGilder - Pepperell MA, US

International Classification:

H05K 7/20
G05B 13/04

Abstract:

Aspects of this disclosure are directed to a simulation-based cooling optimization method that provides real-time cooling set points in a data center. The method combines airflow and temperature simulation, energy modeling, and an optimization solver to determine optimal cooling set point values for a data center. Other aspects are also directed to estimating power consumption and cost and energy savings.

US Patent:

20150234397, Aug 20, 2015

Filed:

Sep 21, 2012

Appl. No.:

14/429980

Inventors:

- West Kingston RI, US
Christopher M. Healey - Tewksbury MA, US
Xuanhang Zhang - North Reading MA, US
Zachary Pardey - Waltham MA, US

International Classification:

G05D 23/19
G05B 13/04
G06F 11/30
G06F 17/50

Abstract:

A system and method for evaluating equipment in a data center is disclosed, hi one aspect, a method includes receiving parameters for equipment in the data center, the parameters including information descriptive of mass of the equipment, calculating an idealized thermal mass of the equipment based on the received parameters, calculating a temperature associated with the equipment at a first time period of a plurality of time periods based on the idealized thermal mass, and calculating a temperature for each subsequent time period of the plurality of time periods based on the idealized thermal mass and the temperature at a previous time period of the plurality of time periods.

US Patent:

20140122033, May 1, 2014

Filed:

Oct 31, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/665749

Inventors:

- West Kingston RI, US
Christopher M. Healey - Chelmsford MA, US
Xuanhang Zhang - Tewksbury MA, US

Assignee:

AMERICAN POWER CONVERSION CORPORATION - West Kingston RI

International Classification:

G06F 17/50

US Classification:

703 2

Abstract:

A system and method for modeling airflow and temperature are disclosed. In one example, the method includes receiving input data related to a physical layout of a facility, dividing, by a computer, a representation of the facility into a plurality of grid cells, identifying where effects of at least one of jet airflow, thermal plumes and buoyancy forces are present in the facility based on the physical layout, specifying a velocity value, using a velocity correction method, for a first set of the plurality of grid cells if the effects of at least one of jet airflow and thermal plumes are present within the first set of the plurality of grid cells, calculating, by the computer, an airflow velocity value for each of a second set of the plurality of grid cells, the second set being different from the first set, modifying the determined airflow velocity value for any of the second set of the plurality of grid cells where the effects of buoyancy forces are present, and storing, on a storage device, the modified airflow values.