Tasks

• European ordering guidelines
• CEN guidelines in the field of steam generators
• Queries regarding TRD
• Support of the VGB working parties:
  - steam generators
  - industrial and heating power stations, block-type thermal power station
  - waste heat boilers
• Compilation of guidelines and bulletins
• Organisation of meetings and conferences

Current Topics

• TRD (Technical Rules for Steam Boilers)
• Grate combustion system
• VGB Conference "Steam Generators, Industrial and Co-generation Stations 2012", 27.-29. March 2012 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, with technical exibition
  The conference language is German

Service

Advice in the following areas

• Technical advice on damage and analyses in the sector:
  - steam generators
  - industrial and heating power stations
  - waste heat boilers
  - appurtenant components
• Planning
• Operation
• Design
• Arbitration procedures and mediation of contractual problems

Completed Research Projects

• Service life calculations of thick-walled components in steam generators
• Pressure losses on ribbed pipes in waste heat boiler plants
• Boiling trials to determine the "burn-out" in shell boilers
• New cleaning procedures (soot blowing) in steam generators using the "electropulse" method