Patent ID: 9546575
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: F01K,F25B,H02P,H05K

Claim:
1. A system comprising: an electricity-generating assembly to generate electricity from a fuel vapor for supply to a data center, the data center producing data center waste heat; a liquid fuel storage to facilitate supply of the fuel vapor to the electricity-generating assembly; a heat transfer system associated with the data center and the liquid feel storage, wherein in an operational mode, the heat transfer system transfers the data center waste heat to the liquid fuel storage to facilitate vaporization of liquid fuel to produce the fuel vapor for supply to the electricity-generating assembly; wherein in the operational mode, the heat transfer system provides data center cooling by dissipating the data center waste heat at the liquid fuel storage; and wherein the heat transfer system comprises a controller, and the electricity-generating assembly produces generating assembly waste heat, the controller controllably combining in the operational mode the generating assembly waste beat with the data center waste heat for transfer to the liquid fuel storage when additional heat is required to provide a required flow rate of the fuel vapor to the electricity-generating assembly.