Advanced Concepts for Renewable Energy Supply of Data Centres (River Publishers Series in Renewable Energy) - Tapa dura

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Dr. Jaume Salom is the head of the Thermal Energy and Building Performance research group at IREC (Catalonia Institute for Energy Research). Previously to joining IREC in 2010, he co-founded and led the cooperative firm AIGUASOL, which has become an international reference in the field of thermal energy efficiency, renewable energies, building physics and software development. He holds a doctorate degree in Thermal Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Catalonia (Spain) and he has research and professional experience in the fields of heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, building energy efficiency, thermal comfort and dynamic simulation. In his current position in the division of Energy efficiency in Systems, Buildings and Communities he leads IREC participation in several national, international and industrial research projects directed towards improving energy performance in buildings and energy systems. Dr. Jaume Salom research interest in the last years has been focused on Net Zero Energy Buildings and Communities, as well of studying energy efficiency and integration of renewable energy sources in Data Centre infrastructures. Dr. Jaume Salom is the Spanish secretary in the TC ISO/IEC JTC1 SC39 Sustainability for and by information technology.

Dr.-Ing. habil. Thorsten Urbaneck is the Head of the division of Thermal Energy Storage at the Chemnitz University of Technology since 2006. Since 1996 is scientific staff at this university, hold a doctorate degree since 2004 and has becoming supernumerary professor in 2017. His main research topics are: Thermal energy storages and systems engineering; solar thermal systems; district heating and cooling; combined heat and power; numerical simulation and optimization of system for heating and cooling; evaluation and validation of models in the field of heat and mass transfer; monitoring of supply systems and experiments in laboratory. Thorsten Urbaneck has been publishing more than 190 papers, holding over 170 oral presentations and is the single author of 2 books and co-author of another 2 books. He holds 4 patents and has filed 3 further applications.

Dr. Eduard Oró joined the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research in October 2013, where he currently investigates into the Thermal Energy and Building Performance group. He holds a doctorate degree in Thermal Engineering from the University of Lleida and he has research and professional experience in the fields of heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, numerical and dynamic simulation, thermal energy storage systems, transportation and storage of temperature sensitive products. During his stay at the University of Lleida was in charge of the thermal energy storage area at high temperature (>120ºC) for solar cooling and concentrated power plants and at the same time at low temperature (<20ºC) applications such as transportation of temperature sensitive products such as frozen food, blood, etc. Currently he is coordinating the Green IT area where the implementation of advanced energy concepts and the integration of energy efficiency strategies and renewable energy into data centres are under consideration. In this field, he has participated in some EU funded projects (i.e. RenewIT and Coolemall) supporting the scientific coordination. Dr. Eduard Oró research interest in the last years has been focused on heat reuse potential from data centres as well as studying best integration of these unique facilities in smart cities through smart grids (both electrical and thermal networks).