March 2011

News

1) DONG Energy to Build German Offshore Wind Farm

2) Call for Papers - VGB Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2011"

New publications

4) VGB-R613e "Code of Practice for Lifecycle Management of Reinforced Concrete Cooling Towers in Power Plants"

5) Furnaces, Steam Generators and Steam Turbines, Combined Heat and Power Plants (CHP) - VGB PowerTech Journal 03/2011

Dates

VGB Conference "Power Plants in Competition 2011" with technical exhibition March 29 - 31, 2011, Karlsruhe/Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/kiw_11_e.html

VGB Conference "Gas Turbines and Operation of Gas Turbines 2011" with technical exhibition May 11/12, 2011, Offenbach/Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/gt_2011.html

VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2011" May 25/ 26, 2011, Helsinki/Finland
http://www.vgb.org/en/flue_gas_cleaning_2011.html

VGB Congress "POWER PLANTS 2011" with technical exhibition September 21 - 23, 2011, Berne/Switzerland
http://www.vgb.org/en/hv_2011.html

VGB Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2011" with technical exhibition October 26/27, 2011, Munich/Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/cik11.html

Information for Members

News

> Expert Group EGTEI "EmTech50-500" established < On its 47th Session the Working Group on Strategies and Review (WGSR) of the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) decided a draft 2011 workplan for the implementation of the convention. Under "1.7 Techno-Economic Issues" item g) this workplan mandated the Expert Group on Techno-Economic Issues (EGTEI) to "continue the work on emerging technologies for combustion plants lower than 500 MW". Therefore, a sub-group was formed within EGTEI to collect and validate information and data for emerging technologies with an impact on emissions of the air pollutants of the convention below 500 MWth. It continues work performed in a previous sub-group focussed on emerging technologies in combustion plants > 500 MWth (LCP 2030 sub-group). The new sub-group is in internal communication abbreviated with "EmTech50-500" to allow easy distinction from the previous group. The sub-group is chaired by Emmanuel Fiani (ADEME). The technical secretariat is provided by French-German Institute for Environmental Research (DFIU) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
https://www.vgb.org/en/bref_lcp_group_info.html

New Abstracts of Minutes

Hydro-Power Plants - 15th October 2010
https://www.vgb.org/en/kf_en_fa_wa_21.html

1) DONG Energy to Build German Offshore Wind Farm

DONG Energy has decided to build the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 1 in the German part of the North Sea. Borkum Riffgrund 1 will consist of up to 89 3.6 MW turbines from Siemens Wind Power with a total capacity of 320 MW. Construction work is expected to start in 2013 with first power production in 2014. The wind farm will be situated in the North Sea, approximately 55 km off the north-west coast of Germany.

http://www.dongenergy.com/EN/Media/Newsroom/Pages/Company_announcements_details.aspx?omxid=534042

2) Call for Papers - VGB Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2011"

VGB's annual Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants" will take place in Munich/Germany on October 26/27, 2011. The conference is a forum for energy utilities and operators of industrial power plants. Operating experience will be discussed and technical developments in the field of power plant chemistry will be presented.

Please submit your Call for Papers by May 13, 2011, at the latest to:
mailto:ines.moors@vgb.org
https://www.vgb.org/vgbmultimedia/Veranstaltungen/CC4/Call2011english_e-p-4344.pdf

3) VGB Job Market: Current Vacancies

The VGB Job Market is offering prospective persons the possibility to develop their career in the range of power and heat generation. You can find current vacancies on our homepage.

http://www.vgb.org/en/jobmarket.html

4) VGB-R613e "Code of Practice for Lifecycle Management of Reinforced Concrete Cooling Towers in Power Plants"

This Guideline addresses the lifecycle management of reinforced concrete cooling towers. Lifecycle management comprises maintenance of the structure and measures to ensure the safety of a cooling tower. Effective lifecycle management must be preventive and knowledge-based.

A functioning cooling tower is essential for the operation of a power plant with cooling water refrigeration, and its dimensions and stresses endow it with special status. As a result of operational and external impacts, it is subject to rapid ageing. Operational circumstances and restricted accessibility partly impede monitoring of the condition. The objective of an appropriate lifecycle management system is to optimize maintenance cost-effectively for the planned service life of the construction. It is necessary for reliable operation, and the application of this code of practice is consequently expressly recommended.

Lifecycle management starts with the planning and erection of a cooling tower. In the case of existing cooling towers, it commences with an appraisal on the basis of the available documentation.

http://www.vgb.org/shop/richtlinien/r-613e.html

5) Furnaces, Steam Generators and Steam Turbines, Combined Heat and Power Plants (CHP) - VGB PowerTech Journal 03/2011

Main topics of the March issue are: Commissioning of a 350 tonnes lignite unit with an extraction condenser turbine; Methodical approach to furnace optimisation of power plants; From Stignaes to Asnaes - DONG Energy's second Chiyoda desulphurisation plant; Installation and operation of flue gas desulphurisation systems for Maritsa East II.

Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/en/current_issue.html