VGB PowerTech Journal - Annual Overview 2020
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 12/2020
Focal Points:- Sector coupling
- Distributed generation
- Electrifying transport – A global perspective
- Decarbonizing distributed power solutions
- Potentials of hydrogen-oxygen combustion to provide secondary reserves in steam power plants
- Assess the control room system
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 11/2020
Focal Points:- Digitalisation in energy supply
- Power-2-X
- Digitalization possibilities and the potential of the Digital Twin for steam supply systems
- Flexibilization of a combined cycle gas turbine by integration of a P2F synthesis
- Gas turbine combustors with constant volume heat addition
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 10/2020
Focal Points:- Power plant by-products
- Global aspects on coal combustion products
- Developments in CCP management in Europe
- Implementation of Basic Requirement 3 in harmonized product standards
- Wood fly ash as cement replacement
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 9/2020
Focal Points:- „VGB OnLine – 100 Year VGB“. Opening speech
- Climate change
- Price as the key to compliance with the Paris climate change decisions
- Responsibilities in a wind farm
- Transformation of electrical energy into hydrogen and its storage
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 8/2020
Focal Points:- Can e-fuels close the renewables power gap? A review.
- Excitation of torsional oscillations in the grid
- Know-how and capacity assurance for the maintenance of conventional power plants
- The Biofficiency Project | Part 2
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 7/2020
Focal Points:- Maintenance
- Thermal waste utilisation
- Technical risk management of hydropower plants
- Optimised maintenance strategies in thermal waste utilisation
- Refractory linings under thermomechanical aspects
- Statement on the IT Security Act 2.0
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 6/2020
Focal Points:- Flexibility in power generation
- Dependence of the Federal Republic of Germany on energy imports
- Control of component fatigue in flexible power station operation
- Run-of-river hydroelectric plants as providers of balancing energy
- Steam turbines and the energy turnaround
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 5/2020
Focal Points:- Nuclear power and nuclear power plant operation
- World Nuclear Performance Report
- Use of Robots in Nuclear Decommissioning
- SMRs - Overview on international developments
- Physical and chemical effects of containment debris
- Experimental and computational analysis of a passive containment cooling system
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 4/2020
Focal Points:- Maintenance in power generation
- Innovative sector coupling and re-electrification
- Steam turbine: regularly checked, safe in operation!
- New methods for plant monitoring
- Experience with the T24 steel in GKM
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 3/2020
Focal Points:- Chemistry in power generation
- Hydrogen as energy-carrier of the future?
- How can combustionrelated problems impact water/steam quality?
- Hot functional tests – passivation of a primary circuit
- Combustion of solid recovered fuels
VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 1-2/2020
Focal Points:- VGB Congress 2019
- Sector Coupling - buzzword or future of the energy supply
- The project ALIGN-CCUS – A contribution to the evolutive transformation process of energy and raw material supply by recycling carbon
- Leakage detection in power-plants based on passive acoustic imagining
- 36C3 – more questions than answers