Meeting of Power Industry Cooling Water Specialists (PICWS)

The PICWS meetings provide a platform for cooling water specialists in Europe to discuss a variety of topics, to share knowledge and freely discuss the application of (sometimes novel) technologies, operational issues and legislative aspects with their peers. The PICWS activity provides the opportunity to build and maintain a network of cooling water specialists across Europe.

In 2016 the 11^th PICWS meeting was held at the EdF R&D center in Chatou, France from 28 – 29 January 2016. In addition to 14 presentations two round-table discussions were held.

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VGB PowerTech at a Glance - New One-pager Published

The new one-pager "Being part of VGB PowerTech - Being part of a powerful operators' network" gives a brief overview about the mission, the objectives, the services and the benefit for members of the association.

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VGB Innovation Award - Call for Proposals

The VGB Research Foundation has awarded outstanding performance of young university graduates (age limit: 35 years) working in the field of power and heat generation for more than 30 years. For the second time in 2016, we will honour such achievement with the VGB Innovation Award.

The VGB Innovation Award is endowed with 10,000 € and is presented on the occasion of the VGB Congress POWER PLANTS 2016. The work that is to be honoured in this way can relate either to innovation in the operation of power and heat generation plants, or to important new findings in research.

Based on the award guideline, all VGB member companies as well as the members of the Scientific Advisory Board of VGB have the right to propose candidates. Deadline for proposals is April 30, 2016.

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Call for Papers - VGB Conference Chemistry in Power Plants 2016

VGB's annual Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants" will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany, on October 26/27, 2016. 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.

The deadline for submission of proposals is May 13, 2016.

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New Power Plants in Europe:
Update March 2016

The excel sheet New Power Plants in Europe comprises power plants in planning and under construction. Energy sources like gas, hard coal, lignite, wind, water, waste etc. are considered. Based on this sheet, the planned total output (MW) and the portions of the sources of energy (MW) can be determined.

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Abstracts of Minutes

• Mechanical & Civil Engineering - November 25/26, 2015
• Gas Turbines - October 28/29, 2015
• Materials and Quality Assurance - October 19/20, 2015

VGB PowerTech Journal 3 (2016): Chemistry in power plants

Editorial

Dr. Anne Wiesel

Power plant chemistry today

Some topics:

• The RDK 8: Ultra supercritical boiler, a showcase for the next coal-fired plant generation (Georg-Nikolaus Stamatelopoulos and Heinz Lorey)
• Future demand and capacity utilisation of conventional power plants in Germany: A meta-study (Alexander Buttler and Hartmut Spliethoff) Download ...
• The application of degassed conductivity in DONG Energy thermal power plants (Monika Nielsen)
• Alternative method for the measurement of the CO₂-degassed acid conductivity (Heiko Woizick)
• Mercury removal in wet flue gas cleaning systems – the interaction of chemistry and process control (Margot Bittig, Stefan Haep and Dieter Bathen) Download ...

Current Issue

VGB-TW103Ve-ebook - Availability of Thermal Power Plants 2005-2014 - Now available as eBook!

The current report provides performance indicators of 662 power plant units plus 171 machine sets of storage and pump storage hydro power plants. All data were considered that had been fed into KISSY online until 31 July 2015 for the period under review, i.e. until end of 2014.

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