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Newsletter
3/2015 |
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RWE - Königshovener Höhe wind farm |
Technical
Competence Centre for Wind Power of VGB PowerTech
Leading
operators of wind power plants have agreed to bundle their interests
under the roof of the European technical association for power and
heat generation VGB PowerTech. VGB is cooperating internationally
focusing on all technical issues related to the erection and
operation of wind power plants. Apart from the exchange of
information and experience, the companies involved are aiming at
progressing with the standardisation (best practice) and bundling of
operators' interest in different user groups.
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CONTENT
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- Cooperation
contract between eCl@ss and VGB PowerTech
- VGB
Conference "Generation in Competition 2015": Using Flexible
Technologies to Ensure a Sustainable Energy System
- Reminder:
VGB Quality Award 2015 Nominations Open Through 15 June 2015
- VGB
Innovation Award - Proposal Deadline Extended to May 31
- VGB
Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2015": Call for Papers -
Deadline Extended!
- Call
for Papers - VGB KELI Conference 2016
- Call
for Papers - VGB Conference Maintenance in Power Plants 2016
- BREF-LCP
Process - Final Meeting of the Technical Working Group
- Abstracts
of Minutes
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- VGB
PowerTech Journal 4 (2015): Service for Power Plants, Power
Plants: Balancing Energy; Electrical Engineering, C&I and
Information Processing, Data Bases, IT and IT Security
- VGB
PowerTech Journal 5 (2015): Nuclear Power, Operation of Nuclear
Power Plants, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Safety, Materials, Radiation
Protection, Disassembly and Disposal
- VGB-B101e
- RDS-PP Letter Codes for Power Plant Systems (System Key):
Amendment Sheet c (2015-03) available
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NEWS
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Cooperation
contract between eCl@ss and VGB PowerTech
(v.l.) Dr. Gunther
Kegel
(Board Member eClass),
Dr. Oliver Then
(VGB) After
intensive discussions at the Hannover exhibition 2015 the
cooperation contract between VGB PowerTech e.V. and eCl@ss e.V.
could be signed. This cooperation represents an appropriate
expansion of VGB’s and eCl@ss portfolio in the field of
cross-industry standards.
In
the present eCl@ss expert group “Construction, operation and
maintenance” VGB contributed with their competence in the power
plant area. By this the broad base of the cross-industry product of
data standards of eCl@ss can be expanded and the expansion of the
VGB activities achieves the status of an ISO/IEC standardize-
compliant industry standard.
By
this cooperation a standard with international circulation and high
market penetration is produced. Under the cooperation maintained by
the VGB special instructions for unambiguous identification of
components in eCl@ss are to be mapped.
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VGB
Conference "Generation in Competition 2015": Using Flexible
Technologies to Ensure a Sustainable Energy System
Rainer Baake
State
Secretary BMWi At
the VGB Conference "Generation in Competition 2015" a vision of how
a flexible and secure energy supply could look like in the future
was presented to the conference's 180 visitors. The VGB conference
was held in Berlin on April 21/22, 2015. The conference topics
covered all power and heat generation aspects, ranging from the use
of battery storage over operating experience in offshore wind
through to the technological challenges facing conventional power
stations. "We are pleased that there was so much lively discussion
and are glad about the sharing of information and experience
initiated by events such as this," said Dr. Oliver Then, Head of the
VGB Competence Center Power Plant Technologies and the conference
host. "Together with our members we want to actively shape the
energy transition and with flexible generation concepts contribute
to a secure energy supply both now and in the future."
The
challenges for the sector are immense. Those challenges were
summarized succinctly in the plenary speech given by State Secretary
Rainer Baake, the person in the Federal Ministry for Economic
Affairs and Energy (BMWi) who is responsible for achieving the
German energy transition. A lively discussion ensued that revolved
around the future design of the electricity market as well as the
CO2 tax for inefficient plants planned by the BMWi, for
example.
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Reminder:
VGB Quality Award 2015 Nominations Open Through 15 June 2015
Quality
Award VGB
invites all ordinary members of VGB PowerTech to propose a supplier,
who has delivered a project of outstanding quality, for the VGB
Quality Award 2015.
The
VGB Quality Award has been established to increase the awareness for
the commercial value of quality and to highlight examples of
suppliers who have delivered extraordinary quality in services and
products. The VGB Quality Award has been extended and is now
covering all electricity and heat generation technologies -
renewables, distributed generation, hydro, oil-, gas- and coal fired
power stations - and all kind of projects - new build,
refurbishment, maintenance, or decommissioning.
As
the VGB Quality Award has not been awarded in 2014 in default of the
minimum number of proposals, all proposals from 2014 will be
considered this year. In the future the VGB Quality Award will be
awarded every two years.
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VGB
Innovation Award - Proposal Deadline Extended to May 31
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 first time
in 2015, 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 2015.
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.
more...
VGB
Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2015": Call for Papers -
Deadline Extended!
VGB's
annual Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants" will take place in
Berlin, Germany, on October 28/29, 2015. 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
call for papers submission deadline has been extended to May
29, 2015.
more...
Call
for Papers - VGB KELI Conference 2016
Every
two years VGB PowerTech e.V. arranges a Technical Conference on
Electrical Engineering, C&I and IT for operators and planners of
all types of generation plants.
For
the event KELI 2016, which will take place on May 11/12, 2016,
in Cologne, we would be pleased to receive your concise
summary not later than June 15, 2015.
more...
Call
for Papers - VGB Conference Maintenance in Power Plants 2016
This
biennial event is addressed to all experts of the conventional and
nuclear division, to the experts of maintenance in power plants and
service companies and to the independent inspectors and deputies of
governments, who are concerned with new developments in the
divisions maintenance, inspection and repair.
The
deadline for submission of proposals is June 30, 2015.
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MEMBER
INFORMATION
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BREF-LCP
Process - Final Meeting of the Technical Working Group
From June 1 to 9, 2015, the final meeting of the Technical
Working Group (TWG) for the revision of the "Best Available
Techniques Reference Document" (BREF) for Large Combustion
Plants (LCP) will be held in Seville. As a member of the TWG VGB
will also attend the final meeting for different chapters and
topics. This will be done in close cooperation with the
German BDEW and EURELECTRIC.
In preparation of the final meeting in Seville there was a
preliminary talk on national level organized by the German
Federal Environment Agency on May 19, 2015. VGB also attended this
meeting to represent the interests of its members.
The revision process for the BREF LCP started with the kick-off
meeting in October 2011. In preparation of this meeting VGB bodies
already revised the technical part of the document and made this
available to the European IPPC Bureau (EIPPCB). The first draft of
the new document was published by the EIPPCB in June 2013. It was
examined and commented by the VGB/BDEW bodies and proposed changes
were forwarded to Seville.
The EIPPCB needed almost two years for analyzing and evaluating
about 8500 comments delivered by all TWG members including an
informal intermediate meeting in June 2014. The background paper
provided for the final TWG meeting have also been commented by the
VGB/BDEW bodies and will be discussed at the final meeting in June.
The BREF LCP process can be followed in myVGB.
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NEW
PUBLICATIONS
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VGB
PowerTech Journal 4 (2015): Service for Power Plants, Power Plants:
Balancing Energy; Electrical Engineering, C&I and Information
Processing, Data Bases, IT and IT Security
Some
topics of the April issue are: New hydro – Possibilities in Europa
and worldwide (Herfried Harreiter and Herwig Rabitsch); Reduction of
the minimum generator power output of hard coal- fired power plants
through control and process engineering (Hendrik Lens and Michael
Nolte); The induction machine as excitation system for large turbine
generators (Stefan Schmülling and Ana Joswig); Successful first use
of electronic documentation at Knapsack II power plant (Harald
Hümmer, Anke Kunze, Cristiane Lammel and Wolfgang Ernst)
Abstracts of all
articles
VGB-101e
- RDS-PP Letter Codes for Power Plant Systems (System Key):
Amendment Sheet c (2015-03) available
The
amendment sheet c (2015-03) for the RDS-PP Letter Codes for Power
Plant Systems (System Key) - VGB-B101e is available as a free
download.
more... |
VGB
PowerTech Journal 5 (2015): Nuclear Power, Operation of Nuclear
Power Plants, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Safety, Materials, Radiation
Protection, Disassembly and Disposal
Some
topics of the May issue are: CASTOR® and CONSTOR® – A well
established system for the dry storage of spent fuel and high level
waste (Hannes Wimmer, Jürgen Skrzyppek and Michael Köbl); A new
concept for the utilisation of waste heat: Siemens implements the
flexible multi-stage steam turbine SST-111 (Thomas Müller, Matthias
Schleer and Udo Attermeyer); Solutions for increasing flexibility
requirement in power generation to achieve major cost savings –
Flexibility: the forgotten aspect of energy security? (Markus von
Zmuda)
Abstracts of all
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VGB
EVENTS
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- VGB
Oil Workshop for Wind Power Plants
June 23/24, 2015,
Rostock, Germany
more...
- VGB
Congress "Power Plants 2015" with technical exhibition
September 9/10, 2015, Vienna, Austria
more...
- VGB
Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2015" with technical
exhibition
October 28/29 , 2015, Berlin, Germany
more...
- VGB
Conference "Maintenance in Power Plants 2016" with technical
exhibition
March 2/3, 2016, Hamburg, Germany
more...
- VGB
Conference "Maintenance of Wind Power Plants 2016" with technical
exhibition
March 2/3, 2016, Hamburg, Germany
more...
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- VGB
Conference " Steam Generators, Industrial and Cogeneration Plants
2016" with technical exhibition
April 6/7, 2016 in
Potsdam, Germany
more...
- VGB
KELI Conference 2016 with technical exhibition
May 11/12,
2016, Cologne, Germany
more...
Conferences
from IEA Clean Coal Centre
- 5th
Workshop on Cofiring biomass with coal
September 16/17,
2015, Drax, UK
more...
- 11th
Workshop on Mercury emissions from coal
November 17-20,
2015, Chennai, India
more...
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