2) RWE Innogy and Topell Energy Build Plant for the Production of Biocoal Pellets
4) Generating Excellence in Power Generation - Kick-off Workshop of the Excellence Enhancement Centre
The Scientific Advisory Board of VGB PowerTech comprised of 30 professors for power generation technologies from eight European countries has compiled its view of the current European power supply situation and its concerns and recommendations for future research requirements in this field in a new report. The experts from all fields of power generation assess developments and provide detailed recommendations for a resource- and environmentally gentle power production and its rearrangement towards a maximum of CO2-saving production technologies.
http://www.vgb.org/en/powerplants2020plus.html
RWE Innogy and Topell Energy layed the foundation stone at Duiven in the Dutch province of Gelderland for the first commercial-scale plant for the production of biocoal pellets. The plant has a production capacity of 60,000 tons per year.
The process developed by Topell enables the continuous production of biocoal pellets on an industrial scale. The manufacturing process is highly flexible in terms of raw material input. Biocoal is easily transported. When co-fired with conventional coal, no additional infrastructural measures are required, such as separate storage and pulverisation.
RWE's Dutch subsidiary Essent will be the first company to use the biocoal pellets over a period of five years for combustion in the Amer coal-fired power plants. Significant CO2 reductions can be achieved by replacing fossil energy sources by biomass.
http://www.rwe.com/web/cms/en/86182/rwe-innogy/news-press/press/?pmid=4005057
According to the "Regulation (EC) No. 166/2006 concerning the
establishment of a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register ..." emissions of certain pollutants from industrial installations, also from power plants, have to be reported.
On behalf of EURELECTRIC the VGB European Working Group E-PRTR has
compiled in 2008 the recommendations "European Wide Sector Specific
Calculation Method for Reporting to the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register". The document sets out a calculation method for the emissions, including emission factors.
Meanwhile the revised version 2010 is available for download:
http://www.vgb.org/en/eprtr_recommendations_2010.html
In the kick-off workshop of the Excellence Enhancement Centre (EEC) a Memorandum of Understanding between the Indian Central Electricity Authority and VGB PowerTech was signed. Both organisations commit themselves to foster the set up and the operation of the EEC by sharing best practices from India and Germany. The objective of the EEC is to facilitate performance improvements in Indian power sector, especially with respect to efficiency and reliability. The EEC is one of the first projects which has been initiated and funded under the Indo-German Energy Forum (IGEF).
More information:
mailto:franz.bauer@vgb.org
http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=62273
The VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2010" on May 26/27, 2010, in Prague has also found great interest in this year. There were welcomed over 100 participants from 21 countries.
The pictures of the workshop can be downloaded from the VGB website. For the participants of the workshop an update of the presentations is available for download. Access data can be requested from Ines Moors or Andreas Wecker.
mailto:ines.moors@vgb.org
mailto:andreas.wecker@vgb.org
https://www.vgb.org/en/events_gallery-gp-c2V0X2FsYnVtTmFtZT1mZ2NfMTAmaW5jbHVkZT12aWV3X2FsYnVtLnBocA%3D%3D.html
Main topics of the July issue are: The Pro-quality Approach Leading to a Better Performance and Future Perspectives; Achieving the Required Level of Quality in the Construction of New Power Plants - Not Simply a Question of Quality Assurance; Quality Monitoring of Steam Turbine Sets for Current New Construction Projects of the Vattenfall Europe Generation AG; VGB R171- Supply of Technical Documentations (Technical Plant Data, Documents) for Power Plants (2nd completely revised edition).
Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/en/current_issue.html