VGB PowerTech Journal - Annual Overview 2018
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 12/2018
Focal Points:- VGB Congress 2018 - Power Generation in Transition
- VGB Congress: Opening address
- People first
- Renewable substitute natural gas synthesis
- Fuel transport in the feeding area of waste incineration plants
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 11/2018
Focal Points:- Thermal generation
- Flexibilisation
- The future role of thermal electricity generation and storage
- N2O-emissions from circulating fluidised bed plants
- New water saving FGD technology in South Africa
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 10/2018
Focal Points:- Environmental engineering
- Power plant By-products
- Biomass ash and options for utilisation
- Use of wood ash for forest fertilisation
- The H2020 Biofficiency project
- Wind Energy in Germany and Europe Status, potentials and challenges
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 9/2018
Focal Points:- Research & development
- Renewables
- Optimisation of electrostatic precipitators
- Microbiological analyses of cooling water
- Vibration analysis on a pump turbine
- Design and assembly of a concrete solar collector
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 8/2018
Focal Points:- VGB Congress 2018
- Research & Development
- HL-class gas turbines – the next level for efficiency and flexibility
- New steam turbine technology
- Research & development at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
- The reactor-glass model of the Simulator Centre
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 7/2018
Focal Points:- Maintenance
- Data analysis of the results of ultrasonic inspections
- Furnace tube life extension in biomass fired boilers
- Optimised energy supply concepts
- Economical storage systems
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 6/2018
Focal Points:- Power plant operation
- IT-security
- New screw pump for high-pressure applications
- Converting Coal to Biomass
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 5/2018
Focal Points:- Nuclear power and nuclear power plant operation
- The unnoticed loss of carbon-free generation in the United States
- Optimal holistic disposal planning
- 360 Degree area atlas in the Biblis nuclear power plant
- Legal aspects with regard to IT security for KRITIS energy systems
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 4/2018
Focal Points:- Hydropower
- Big data in power generation
- New hydroelectric facility in Romanche-Gavet
- State space controller
- Scenarios and forecasts on the development of world energy supply
- Innovative water wheel
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 3/2018
Focal Points:- Chemistry in power plants
- IT safety in power generation
- Storage technologies (power-to-gas, batteries, pumped storage, etc.)
- Research programme for reduction of Hg emissions at RWE Power
- Sulfite control of WFGD systems to reduce Hg emissions
- Implementing state of the art information security provisions
- Aluminium electrolysis as a power storage
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 1-2/2018
Focal Points:- Power plant operation
- Turkey’s energy future
- Optimized CO2 capture technology
- IT security catalogue
- Compressed air energy storage combined cycle
- Laser-Multi-Pass-Narrow-Gap Welding
- Implementation of the 42nd BImSchV
- Reform of the German “Energiewende”
- Quality and quantity of steam and condensate flows