VGB PowerTech Journal - Annual Overview 2016

The technical journal VGB PowerTech is a competent and internationally accepted publication for power plant engineering. It appears with 11 bilingual issues (German/English) annually. VGB PowerTech informs with technical/scientific papers and up-to-date news on all important questions of electricity and heat generation.

	VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 12/2016 Focal Points: VGB Congress 2016 Fuel technology and furnaces The role of energy supply in the industry 4.0 Low NOx brown coal firing Study on different impacts of renewable energy sources on the German power supply system From power plant school to international energy technology training center
	VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 11/2016 Focal Points: Steam turbines Environmental engineering Energy transition and ageing power plants as change process Steam turbines subject to flexible operation Preservation of a combined cycle power plant Optimisation of flue gas cleaning processes by utilisation of PTFE
	VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 10/2016 Focal Points: Electrical engineering From base-load to flexible operation - An innovative operation approach for CCGT plants Information security of electricity generation plants Power system restoration New Niederaußem block control room
	VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 9/2016 Focal Points: VGB Congress Power Plants 2016 Renewables and Distributed generation Economics of large hydropower Condition monitoring for wind turbines Industrial fuel cell power plant Flexibility by boiler optimisation
	VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 8/2016 Focal Points: Industrial and co-generation plants Civil engineering Optimisation of a de-superheater Flexibility of industrial CHP plants Digitalisation in the construction industry New generation of VGB Standards in civil engineering
	VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 7/2016 Focal Points: Maintenance Power plant and fleet management Electricity supply in Germany: Challenges to a municipal power company Maintenance: Contracts – Risk and liability Preservation of power plants Wind power plants: Innovations on ice detection
	VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 6/2016 Focal Points Gas turbines Hydropower Strategies and tools for maintenance Distributed energy generation Refurbishment of Kaplan turbines Recycling of SCR catalysts
	VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 5/2016 Focal Points Nuclear power Operation Regulation The nuclear industry after Fukushima Upgrading pumps in nuclear power plants Automated load flexibility of nuclear power plants Power-to-heat-systems and the energy system
	VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 4/2016 Focal Points Service for power plants Control and balancing energy Increasing flexibility of assets Energy storage and grid for electricity, gas, fuel and heat Recent damages in boiler water circulation pumps within EnBW’s power plant fleet
	VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 3/2016 Focal Points Chemistry in power plants The RDK 8: A showcase for the next coal-fired plant generation Demand and capacity utilisation of conventional power plants in Germany Sulphuric acid measurements at ppb levels Special tests with ultrasonic tomography
	VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 1-2/2016 Focal Points Energy Transition Opportunities for Power Generation The future role of renewables in Europe Future role of fossil generation in Europe Wind power in Austria Overview of the Eskom and South African new build programme