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Highlights • Integration of spray cooling with waste heat reusing and peak load shifting. • HCS exhibits excellent energy saving, exergy increase and operation cost saving. • Sensitivity analysis shows the importance of spray cooling inlet temperature. • Economic analysis shows a cost payback period as low as 286 days. Abstract A hybrid cooling system aimed at enhancing energy, exergy and economic efficiency of data center is proposed. The proposed system combines a high cooling efficiency spray cooling system, a waste heat reusing absorption chiller and a peak load shifting chilled water storage. This combination is implemented by replacing the condenser of spray cooling system with the generator of absorption chiller, and storing cooling capacity of absorption chiller during off-peak time to supplement the cooling load during on-peak time. A thermodynamic model is developed based on energy and exergy balance. Parametric sensitivity analysis is performed to investigate the effects of spray cooling inlet temperature, chilled water temperature, cooling water temperature and ambient temperature on the energy saving efficiency, exergy efficiency and operation cost. Comparison study and economic analysis are conducted based on Dawning 5000A supercomputer in Shanghai, China. Sensitivity analysis results show that the effect of spray cooling inlet temperature is the largest, while the effects of chilled water temperature and cooling water temperature are the smallest. At appropriate condition, the absorption chiller and chilled water storage could totally eliminated the cooling load of air conditioner during on-peak time. The energy saving efficiency, exergy efficiency and operation cost saving could be up to 51%, 17%, and 71% with the cost payback period as low as 286 days. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• A novel open type I-CAES with hydraulic machine and spray cooling is proposed. • A transient thermodynamic model including air-water heat transfer is presented. • OI-CAES enables continuous energy storage and near isothermal compression. • Indicated efficiency of 98% and roundtrip efficiency of 76% are achieved. • Compression and expansion time ratio of 99% and 96% are obtained. Isothermal compressed air energy storage (I-CAES) is a high efficient emission-free technology to facilitate the integration of fluctuating renewable energy into the power grid. However, in conventional closed type I-CAES (CI-CAES), the volumetric energy storage density is very low since two working mediums exist (water and air) and the water storage tank doubles the system volume. Thus, an open type I-CAES (OI-CAES) is proposed to solve this problem. Based on reversible hydraulic pump/turbine, the proposed system could achieve continuous energy storage/release and increase the compression/expansion time ratio, thus increasing the volumetric energy storage density. Combined with spray cooling, OI-CAES system could achieve near isothermal compression/expansion and improve the energy storage efficiency. A transient mathematical model is established based on thermodynamic laws and heat transfer theory. Thermodynamic analyses including a single cycle analysis and a continuous cycle analysis are carried out. A comprehensive performance assessment of the proposed systems is conducted and the effect of spray flow rate is analyzed. The results show that the compression time ratio during energy storage and the expansion time ratio during energy release are increased to 99.2% and 95.6% respectively. The energy storage density is doubled compared to CI-CAES at the same working pressure. The nearly isothermal compression/expansion is achieved with air temperature change as low as 5 °C. The indicated efficiency and roundtrip efficiency are as high as 0.98 and 0.76 respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]