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June 2006News1) 2005 Balance of CO2 Emission Trading Scheme 2) Start of Construction of Vattenfall's CO2-free Lignite Power Plant 3) 64 Million Tonnes of Coal Combustion Products in Europe 4) VGB ETC Safety and Health at Work 5) Quality Assurance of Automated Measuring Systems - Position Paper on Standard EN 14181 New publications7) Maintenance in Power Plants - VGB PowerTech Journal 6/2006 DatesVGB Conference "Steam Generators, Industrial Power Stations and Cogeneration Plants 2006" with technical exhibition September 4 to 6, 2006, Wuerzburg/Germanyhttp://www.vgb.org/IHKW_2006_e.html VGB Congress "POWER PLANTS 2006" with technical exhibition September 27 to 29, 2006, Dresden/Germany http://www.vgb.org/programme_vh06.html VGB Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2006", October 11/12, 2006, Bad Neuenahr/Germany http://www.vgb.org/k_cik_06_e.html Information for MembersNews> VGB Quality Award < This year, VGB will grant for the first time the "VGB Quality Award", which is to honour companies that meet utilities quality expectations. For further information please refer to the VGB Circular.https://www.vgb.org/vgb_quality_award_e.html New Abstracts of MinutesBiomass - 23rd March 2006https://www.vgb.org/kf_en_ak_bi_11.html Control and Instrumentation and IT - 27th/28th March 2006 https://www.vgb.org/kf_en_ak_lt_20.html Distributed Generation - 16th March 2006 https://www.vgb.org/kf_en_ak_dz_10.html Electrical Equipment - 15th/16th March 2006 https://www.vgb.org/kf_en_ak_et_20.html Use of Renewables and Distributed Generation - 21st March 2006 https://www.vgb.org/kf_en_fa_ee_11.html 1) 2005 Balance of CO2 Emission Trading SchemeAccording to the EU emission trading system the reporting about CO2 emissions in 2005 was to be submitted to the competent authorities by March 31, 2006. By April 30, 2006, each company had to surrender a number of emission allowances equipment to its verified emissions in the previous year. The account of each operator is documented in a national register. The Community Independent Transaction Log (CITL) records all accounts of national registers. The status of the CITL on April 30, 2006, was published by the European Commission on May 15.
2) Start of Construction of Vattenfall's CO2-free Lignite Power PlantVattenfall is investing EUR 50 million to build a pilot plant for a CO2-free lignite power plant that is scheduled to be operative in 2008. The new power plant at Schwarze Pumpe near Cottbus will be based on the so-called oxyfuel technology. The objective is to capture the carbon dioxide that is generated during the electricity generation process and liquefy it to be able to transport it to the storage locations.
3) 64 Million Tonnes of Coal Combustion Products in EuropeBased on the ECOBA statistics on "Production and Utilisation of Coal Combustion Products (CCPs) in Europe (EU 15) in 2004" about 64 million tonnes of CCPs were produced that year. Compared to 2003, about 1.5 million tonnes of CCPs less were produced due to lower generation of electricity and steam in coal and lignite fired power plants and due to the use of lower ash coals. The use of fly ash as a raw material in the construction industry rose by 1 million tonnes. The utilisation rate reached 50 %. The ECOBA statistics on "Production and Utilisation of Coal Combustion Products (CCPs) in Europe (EU 15) in 2004" can be downloaded from the website of ECOBA.
4) VGB ETC Safety and Health at WorkOn June 21, 2006, the first meeting of the ETC "Safety and Health at Work" took place in Berlin. The committee has representatives from 8 countries. In a contribution "Ordinance on Industrial Health and Safety - Approach for Elaborating Technical Rules" was outlined the implementation of European directives into national right. As "terms of reference" were defined for the future work:
5) Quality Assurance of Automated Measuring Systems - Position Paper on Standard EN 14181As the practicability of the standard EN 14181 "Stationary source emissions - Quality assurance of automated measuring systems" (AMS) is put into question from the VGB member companies. VGB Offices installed a European Working Group (EWG) "Emissions monitoring" to compile the experience gathered with the application of this standard.
6) Research project on road concrete with fly ash startedDue to the constantly increasing traffic concrete roads are increasingly built besides asphalt roads. However, due to the existing regulations of the Federal Institute for Road Construction (Bundesanstalt für Straßenbau, BAST) the use of fly ash in road concretes is not permitted as no practical proof is existing about a sufficient resistance of the concrete surface to simultaneous exposure to frost-thaw and mechanical load.
7) Maintenance in Power Plants - VGB PowerTech Journal 6/2006Main topics of the June issue are: Maintenance in Power Plants, Challenge Quality, State of Material Development for New Power Plants.
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