Relevance of power saving at mining farms
Introduction: mining has recently aroused substantial interest inRussia due to the rise in crypto-currency rates. Therefore, new coins are harder to obtain, and mining equipment turns more expensive. Computation capacities are provided by mining farms, and the number of their computation modules reaches 20 units, if operated by natural persons, and 300 - 5,000 units, if operated by major computation centres. One of the factors restraining the development of industrialscale mining, consists in high power consumption rates demonstrated by major computation centres. Therefore, the problem of high-quality power supply to mining farms gains relevance both in terms of the efficient use of electric power sources and in terms of the protection of expensive machines.Methods: the co-authors have analyzed power saving problems that accompany the incorporation of industrial mining farms, substantiated the need to design and develop the unique equipment, connectable to mining farms because the circulation of the reactive component of electric power between the source of alternate current and the accumulator causes losses of energy in the wires of the electric circuit. The overloading of the circuit by the reactive current causes the need to improve the capacity of the energy source, reduces the circuit voltage and makes it fluctuate. The co-authors have performed an overview of air and liquid-based cooling systems applied to mining farms. They also describe the principle of the cooling system involving submersion, which has a strong potential as a constituent component of major mining farms.Findings and discussion: the co-authors have formulated their idea aimed at the improvement of the performance of mining farms. They present a power saving system centered around the reactive capacity compensation, filtration of upper harmonics and compensation of voltage tilts.Conclusion: the co-authors have formulated the objectives of research in the area of power efficiency and capacity improvement at mining farms.