Materials and Quality Supervision

• Exchange of experience
  - Pressure Equipment Directive, standardization
  - Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health - BetrSichV, online monitoring
  - Materials development concepts for the new power plant generation
  - Quality inspection of new building power stations
  
  
• Current Topics
  - damages in drums with material WB 36
  - Revision of VGB R109 "material specification for components in fossil-fired power plants" (first edition August 2007)
  - VGB R506 "monitoring and inspection of components from steam boiler and water or steam leading high pressure-tubes" is in preparation for the publication
  
  

• R&D projects supported by the Technical Committee
  - 221   "12CrCoMo qualification as new material for pressure vessel construction"
  - 251   "Materials-operational testing II (KOMET 650)"
  - 266   "Lifetime Assessment of 12 % Cr Steels III"
  - 269   "Feasibility study about non destructive testing of creep porosity"
  - 274   "Damage development III"
  - 281   "MARCKO 700"
  - 290   "Creep rupture tests of AD700-1"
  - 301   "Creep rupture behaviour after cold forming II"
  -11/07 "Mechanical properties of long time tests of high-temperature steels (Data Mining) II"
  -17/07 "725 HWT GKM"
  -03/08 "New materials for turbines IV"
  -04/08 "Testing of a 725 °C valve" (stockpiling of project 17/07)
  
  List of R&D projects for fossil-fired Power Plants supported by VGB