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Newsletter
6/2019 |
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Gudrun Krebs/Shotshop.com |
Merry
Christmas and a Successful New Year
Management
and staff of VGB PowerTech e.V., VGB Research Foundation and VGB
PowerTech Service GmbH would like to thank you for the good
co-operation in this year and wish you a Merry Christmas and a
Successful New Year. |
CONTENT
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- Strengthening
Cooperation with India
- VGB
Quality Award 2020: Proposals Welcome
- PowerJobs:
Current vacancies
- You
find us also in social media
- VGB-Standards'
access for members – new service available
- Abstracts
of Minutes
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- Latest
media data 2020: Your advertisement in the VGB PowerTech Journal
- VGB-B
035 - Failures and Forced Unavailability of Power Plants (Henk C.
Wels)
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NEWS
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Strengthening
Cooperation with India
VGB
and member companies participated in major energy events in India
reflecting experiences in flexible power plant operation and
sustainable energy supply.
Panel Discussion at the
8th Indo-German Energy Forum in New Delhi on 1 November 2019,
Source: IGEF
The
recent visit of German Federal Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel from 31
October to 1 November in India formed the occasion for the 8th
meeting of the Indo-German Energy Forum (IGEF). Eight implementation
agreements and MoUs worth more than 200 million Euros have been
signed by the Ministry of Power and Ministry of New and Renewable
Energy with their German counterparts.
VGB
has been active partner in the activities of flexibilizing Indian
coal fired power plants for the last years. Together with partners
such as Siemens and Steag Energy Services, the VGB investigated the
flexibility potential of two NTPC plants – at the 210 and 500 MW
units of the Dadri and Simhadri power plant. The studies’ results
could be successfully verified in test runs executed at unit 6 of
the Dadri power plant achieving stable minimum load operation at 40
per cent. These learnings provided an important input to Indian
decision makers for adapting the nationwide regulatory framework for
part load operation.
“We
are eager to support the forum’s activities further on”, said Dr
Oliver Then, VGB’s Executive Managing Director, during the IGEF
panel discussion addressing the topic of “Market and System
Integration of Renewable Energies”. He pointed out the importance of
flexible dispatchable power generation for a successful energy
system transformation.
more
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VGB
Quality Award 2020: Proposals Welcome
Quality
Award
In
the 2020 anniversary year of the VGB PowerTech, Ordinary and
Sponsoring members can nominate projects that have delivered an
outstanding quality in execution for the award.
The
VGB Quality Award has been established to increase 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 is covering all electricity and heat
generation technologies as well as storage technologies, and all
kind of projects: new build, refurbishment, maintenance, or
decommissioning.
more
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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.
more
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You
find us also in social media
Follow
us on Twitter
or visit us at LinkedIn
and Xing,
to be promptly notified on latest news and current events.
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MEMBER
INFORMATION
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VGB-Standards'
access for members – new service available
VGB
PowerTech provides its Ordinary Members (operators, plant owners)
with an exclusive online access to the VGB-Standards (VGB-Standards,
VGB Guidelines, VGB Technical Instruction Sheets). The documents and
further parts of the standards, e.g. the keys lists of the
Identification System for Power Stations (KKS) and the RDS-PP® –
Reference Designation System for Power Plants, are available for
download in myVGB (VGBVS4OM).
A
new filter function enables a selection of documents according to
the subject-specific supplementary packages:
- Supplementary package 1: Nuclear energy
- Supplementary package 2: Coal and Waste (coal-fired power
plants, heavy fuel oil power plants, waste incineration plants)
- Supplementary package 3: Gas (gas-fired power plants,
block-type thermal power plants with gas engines)
- Supplementary package 4: Hydro power (run-of-river power
plants, storage and pumped storage plants, wave and tidal power
plants)
- Supplementary package 5: Wind energy
- Supplementary package 6: Other technologies (biomass, biogas,
photovoltaic, storage technologies)
more...
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NEW
PUBLICATIONS
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Latest
media data 2020: Your advertisement in the VGB PowerTech
Journal
Also
in 2020 the VGB PowerTech Journal will continue to provide current
information and latest news and findings about the trends in the
power business. Make advantage of our renowned journal and print
advertising and address your customers and stakeholders to draw the
attention to your products and services.
The
focal issues and deadlines are listed in our editorial schedule
supporting decision when to place you advertisement for the maximum
yield. Get in touch with us, we would be pleased to make a bespoke
offer to increase and improve your market position.
more
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VGB-B
035 - Failures and Forced Unavailability of Power Plants (Henk C.
Wels)
Power
plants are not functioning to the fullest 100 % of the time.
Maintenance and inspection of some components require them to be
off-line in time. However, this can be planned such that customers
continue receiving power from the electrical grid, or steam or
district heating from other plants. Unplanned outages due to
failures or external conditions may cause surprises and can lead to
situations in which the demand is not satisfied on short term
entailing large costs.
more
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VGB
EVENTS
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- Digitalization
in Hydropower - Implemented innovative digital measures, products
and tools
April 22-23, 2020, Graz, Austria more...
- Flue
Gas Cleaning
May 6-7, 2020, Dresden, Germany more...
- KELI
- Conference for Electrical Engineering, I&C and IT in
generation plants
May 12-14, 2020, Bremen, Germany
more...
- Steam
Turbines and Operation of Steam Turbines
June 17/18, 2020,
Cologne, Germany more...
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- VGB
CONGRESS
September 9/10, 2020, Essen, Germany more...
- VGB
Conference Chemistry
October 28/29, 2020, Dresden, Germany
more...
- Maintenance
in Power Plants 2021
March 3/4, 2021, Karlsruhe, Germany
more...
Conferences
from IEA Clean Coal Centre
- 9th
Workshop on Cofiring Biomass with Coal
February 25-27,
2020, Fukuoka, Japan more...
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Call
for Papers | Review
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Call
for Papers: Steam Turbines and Operation of Steam Turbines 2020
This
biennial event is addressed to all manufacturers, planners,
operators, insurers and all professionals, researchers and
decision-makers interested in technology and its environment.
The
main issues are:
- Damage caused by standstill, load change, partial load
- Quality assurance in new construction and revision
- Operating experience with new technologies
- Operation and overhaul of industrial steam turbines
- New concepts for maintenance and repair
- “Energiewende” (Energy transition): Opportunities and
possibilities for the steam turbine
- Digitization in maintenance
Paper
submission is open now. The deadline for proposing lectures is 10
January 2020.
more
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Call
for Papers: Flue Gas Cleaning 2020
The
annual VGB Workshop on Flue Gas Cleaning is organised by the VGB
Technical Group Emission Control in order to provide a platform for
VGB members and other interested experts for information about and
discussion of developments in pollutant abatement and in the
experience gained in operation of flue gas cleaning installations.
This
workshop covers all aspects of flue gas cleaning activities for
NOx, dust and SO2 removal as well as of online
monitoring and instrumentation for emission detection.
Please
submit written suggestions for papers and lecturers until January
17, 2020.
more
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