Nearly three decades of experience evaluating large-scale industrial systems involving heat transfer, cooling water, pumps, compressors, energy consumption, equipment reliability, and continuous operation.
Modern data centers use coordinated cooling, water, electrical, and utility infrastructure to remove heat from IT equipment and transfer it through facility systems to an ultimate heat sink. System design may include air cooling, liquid cooling, chilled-water systems, economization, mechanical refrigeration, evaporative heat rejection, dry heat rejection, or combinations of these approaches.
Heat balances, heat exchangers, chilled-water systems, process cooling, refrigeration, and the interaction between equipment duty and operating conditions.
Cooling-water loops, treatment, pumps, piping, pressure drop, water quality, makeup requirements, and heat-rejection infrastructure.
Redundancy, equipment performance, operating envelopes, utility availability, outage impacts, and continuous-operation requirements.
Data-center cooling systems can include open and closed fluid circuits at different points in the thermal path from IT equipment to the ultimate heat sink.
Cooling water is exposed to the atmosphere, typically through a cooling tower. Evaporation removes heat but creates makeup-water, blowdown, treatment, scaling, corrosion, and biological-control considerations.
Cooling fluid remains contained within piping and heat-transfer equipment. Heat may be transferred through heat exchangers to another facility loop. Mechanical chillers can produce lower-temperature water when required, while condenser heat is subsequently transferred to an ultimate heat-rejection system such as a cooling tower, dry cooler, adiabatic cooler, or other heat sink.
Quincy Jones's experience includes industrial thermal systems, utilities, rotating equipment, process design, operating performance, project execution, and commercial damages.
Jones's experience spans process engineering, facility design, operations, commercial analysis, and expert testimony across refining, petrochemicals, natural gas processing, LNG, hydrogen, industrial gases, cryogenic systems, pipelines, and other energy-intensive infrastructure.
Potential data-center assignments may involve cooling-system or utility performance, contract requirements, industry custom and practice, capital-project execution, operating costs, delay, equipment performance, reliability, lost profits, or other damages issues.
Focus areas: thermal management, cooling-water systems, industrial utilities, equipment performance, project execution, and related commercial and damages analysis.
For inquiries involving data-center cooling, water systems, thermal management, infrastructure performance, project execution, or related commercial and damages issues.