ESB Electricity Supply Board operates benchmark

The ordinary member ESB is now participating in the VGB power plant information system KISSY and will use the opportunity to compare itself with a pool of international power plants. The ESB power plant fleet, distributed in 10 sites, includes thermal power plants as well as a pumped storage plant. By recording availability data and unavailability incidents, technical parameters are calculated and weak points of plant systems can be identified.

Through the participation of ESB, the pool will increase to around 670 power plant units plus 178 machine sets from pumped storage and storage power plants in KISSY.

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Water-steam cycle Experts wanted

The flexibilisation of plant operation also has an influence on the operation of the water-steam cycle. This should be taken into account in the revision of VGB-S-010: Feedwater, boiler water and steam quality for power plants / industrial power plants.

We are therefore looking for experts who would like to participate in the revision. It is expected to start in the middle of the year.

Contact: Dr Andreas Wecker

VGB's German Pavilion of nuclear industry in Turkey

For the third time, VGB PowerTech coordinated a joint booth (German Pavilion) to support German-speaking countries' nuclear industry at the NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS II. EXPO & VI. SUMMIT in Istanbul, Turkey.

This annual conference and exhibition event supports and promotes the emerging Turkish nuclear market for design, construction and upcoming operation of a number of nuclear units including Turkey's first nuclear power station.

This had been a further event within VGB's initiative EFENDI External promotion of German nuclear industry's exports of nuclear commodities.

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PowerJobs: Current vacancies

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

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Simulation model to improve the fuel distribution of furnaces combusting herbaceous biomass

Increased use of herbaceous biomass is becoming increasingly important. As a renewable energy source, this can help reduce CO₂ emissions and, in the case of straw, is an agricultural by-product, meaning that there is no competition to food production. With the increasing spread of energetic straw use, the optimization of the transport of herbaceous biomass becomes more and more relevant.

A well-suited method for transport is the pneumatic conveying, which is already used in some straw burning units. A sub-optimal operation of pneumatic conveying can lead to malfunction and increased operating costs. Currently available design diagrams, calculation approaches and recommendations are insufficiently suitable for herbaceous biomass. The focus of the new project 418 is therefore on the experimental and numerical investigation of the pneumatic transport of herbaceous biomass. Aim is to make a concrete contribution to the optimization of its transport.

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Abstracts of Minutes

• Materials and Quality Assurance - 13/14 December 2018
• Steam Turbines - 13/14 November 2018
• Mechanical & Civil Engineering - 6/7 November 2018
• Fluidised Bed Firing Systems - 25/26 September 2018

VGB PowerTech Journal 1-2 (2019): VGB Congress 2018: Technical Sessions; IT security

Editorial

Kristian Ruby

European electricity can be carbon-neutral by 2045

Some topics:

• Research projects on CCU and sector coupling at RWE Power’s Coal Innovation Centre (Peter Moser, Sandra Schmidt, Knut Stahl and Georg Wiechers) Download ...
• Electricity-to-electricity storage systems at power plant sites (Richard Lindenau and Christoph Guder)
• Sector coupling – Options and opportunities for the energy sector on the example of a power-to-methanol plant (K. Görner, F. Möllenbruck, M. Dierks, E. Demirkol, M. Richter and G. Oeljeklaus) Download ...
• The final countdown of the IT security catalogue according to § section 11 paragraph 1b EnWG (Stefan Loubichi)

Issue PT Journal 1-2/2019

VGB-S-017-00-2018-09-EN - Fire Protection in Onshore Wind Turbines – Now available as eBook!

Fire-fighting operations by fire brigades in onshore wind turbines are almost impossible because of their height and resulting difficulty of accessing them. For this reason, fire prevention, early detection and fighting of a fire, and the self-rescue of persons present in the installations during a fire are key considerations.

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VGB PowerTech Journal 3 (2019): Chemistry in power plants

Editorial

Christopher Weßelmann

Chemistry in power generation – challenges and opportunities

Some topics:

• Audit according to § 8a BSI-act – obligation for operators of the wind industry? (Stefan Loubichi) Download ...
• „Autonomous operation“ of the DI-plant Artificial Intelligence (AI) in DI-Production (Dieter Mauer)
• A trial of film forming substances at Staythorpe power station (Andrew Mosley and Cheryl Tommons)
• Wind Energy in Germany and Europe Status, potentials and challenges for baseload application
  Part 2: European Situation in 2017 (Thomas Linnemann and Guido S. Vallana) Download ...

Current Issue

VGB-S-033-00-2017-07-EN - Interaction of Conformity Assessment and Industrial Safety in Hydropower Plants – Now available as eBook!

The objective of this VGB-Standard is to provide employers a reference framework for safe work equipment in the field of hydropower indicating legal requirements that have to be observed. It describes the legal context as well as the demands on the scope of documentation made by the product and industrial safety directives.

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Call for Papers: Chemistry in Power Plants 2019

The conference is a forum for utilities and industrial power plants. Operating experience will be discussed and technical developments will be represented in the field of power plant chemistry. The conference will be accompanied by a Foyer Exhibition, which gives opportunity to exhibitors to present their companies and/or products.

Paper submission is open now. The deadline for proposing lectures is 31 May 2019.

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