An experimental investigation on the effects of mineral oil flow rate on CPU immersion cooling

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze the effect of using immersion cooling with different flow rate and fan rotation on decreasing the temperature on CPU. The study used three variables of flow rate: 0.5, 1 and 1.5lpm. in addition, three other variables of fan rotation, 400, 600, and 800 rpm, were used as well. Data collection was by means of benchmark software to load the CPU to work maximum and the logging software to record the temperature. The results show that the immersion cooling could potentially be utilized as the new and more effective cooling system. The most optimum variable to decrease the temperature was 1, 5 lpm with fan rotation at 800 rpm. It decreased the maximum temperature from 60 °C to 47 °C, a deviation of 13 °C lower compared to the conventional fan cooling system with air as a medium. The study established that the higher the flow rate and the fan rotation, the higher temperature can be decrease. Therefore, immersion cooling can be the solution to decrease the consumption of energy on IT sector on a bigger scale.