PERFORMANCE AND ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF A THERMALLY INTEGRATED REVERSIBLE HP/ORC CARNOT BATTERY APPLIED TO DATA CENTERS

when the contribution of waste heat occurs, resulting in thermally integrated energy storages. In this context, since data centers (DCs) convert almost all the supplied electricity into recoverable waste heat, this work aims at investigating the convenience of integrating a reversible Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC)/Heat Pump (HP) Carnot battery with a DC fed by a photovoltaic power plant. For this purpose, a