VGB PowerTech Journal - Annual Overview 2017

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.

December issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 12/2017

Focal Points:
  • VGB Congress 2017
  • Power Plant operation
  • Evitalisation for European utilities
  • Flexible power plants
  • ČEZ hydropower fleet - past, present and future

November issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 11/2017

Focal Points:
  • Gas turbine
  • Fuel combustion
  • Enhancement of fuel flexibility of industrial gas turbines
  • Modelling the operational performance of water-cooled surface condensers

October issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 10/2017

Focal Points:
  • Power plant by-products
  • Electrical engineering, instrumentation and control
  • Information technology
  • Control room technology

September issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 9/2017

Focal Points:
  • VGB Congress 2017
  • Renewables and Distributed generation
  • Direct marketing of wind generation
  • Electric pitch systems in onshore and offshore applications
  • CFB technology stimulates CHP

August issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 8/2017

Focal Points:
  • Combined heat and power plants
  • Operating management
  • Gas engines – Combining efficiency and flexibility with CHP
  • Water systems providing make-up water
  • Simulator Assisted Training and Engineering

July issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 7/2017

Focal Points:
  • Maintenance of wind power plants
  • Environmantal engineering
  • Research in power generation
  • Improving operating behaviour of wind turbine generators
  • Vibration monitoring of large wind turbine fleets

June issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 6/2017

Focal Points:
  • Steam generators
  • Power plant by-products
  • Sensor technology on existent and temporary used components
  • DOC reduction by ion exchange and reverse osmosis
  • Environmental testing of fly ash for concrete

May issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 5/2017

Focal Points:
  • Nuclear power and nuclear power plant operation
  • Cyber security in nuclear power plants and its portability
  • Retrofitting a spent fuel pool spray system
  • Nuclear power economics

April issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 4/2017

Focal Points:
  • Fluidised bed firing systems
  • Renewables: Biomass
  • Battery systems as large scale storage options
  • Grid development and system security
  • Innovative concepts for flexibilisation

March issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 3/2017

Focal Points:
  • Chemistry in power plants
  • Power plant and power plant fleet management
  • The value of flexibility for fossil-fired power plants
  • Ensure flexible operation of steam turbogenerators

January/February issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 1-2/2017

Focal Points:
  • Wind farms without subsidies: Challenges and risk for the operator
  • Overview on nuclear new build projects and global perspectives
  • Interaction of renewable & conventional energies – large-scale battery systems as a connecting link