1) VGB-Standards also Available as E-books - Digital Know-how at Your Fingertips
2) VGB Annual Report 2013/2014 Now Available
3) Call for Papers - VGB Conference "Generation in Competition 2015"
4) Call for Papers - VGB Conference "Gas Turbines and Operation of Gas Turbines 2015"
VGB Conference "EUROCOALASH 2014"
October 14/15, 2014, Munich, Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/eurocoalash2014.html
VGB Workshop "Fire and Explosion Protection in Biomass Power Plants"
October 24, 2014, Essen, Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/fire_explosion_protection_biomass_pp.html
50th VGB Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2014" with technical exhibition
October 30/31, 2014, Linz, Austria
http://www.vgb.org/en/cik14.html
VGB Workshop "IT-Security in Power Generation"
November 26, 2014, Essen, Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/ws_it_security_2014.html
VGB Conference "Maintenance of Wind Power Plants 2015"
24 /25 February 2015 in Cologne, Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/wea_2015.html
VGB Conference "Generation in Competition 2015" with technical exhibition
April 21/22, 2015, Berlin, Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/kw_wettbewerb_2015.html
VGB Conference "Gas Turbines and Operation of Gas Turbines 2015" with technical exhibition
6/7 May 2015 in Lübeck, Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/vfgt_2015.html
Fluidised Bed Firing Systems - 25th March 2014
https://www.vgb.org/en/kf_en_ak_wf.html
Industrial and Co-generation Stations - 25th March 2014
https://www.vgb.org/en/kf_en_ak_ik.html
VGB PowerTech is offering its know-how digitally. VGB-Standards are now available as download e-books in the VGB online shop, i.e. much faster access to the desired VGB-Standard. "In-document searching" is included. The VGB-Standards are available as PDF-files, thus mobile devices become a smart library for power plant technology: technical knowledge - as mentioned above - at your fingertips.
http://www.vgb.org/shop/ebooks.html
With the current Annual Report, VGB PowerTech presents the results of its activities for the reporting period 2013/2014. VGB PowerTech bundles the issues and tasks related to electricity and heat generation that are of joint interest to the entire power industry, i.e. operators, manufacturers, service companies as well as research and development institutes. VGB PowerTech also coordinates relevant activities of member companies with government institutions and additional partners in international cooperation worldwide.
http://www.vgb.org/en/annual_report.html
The well-known VGB Conference "Power Plants in Competition" will take place in Berlin, Germany, on April 21/22, 2015, under the new title "Generation in Competition". The motto "Renewables and Conventional - A Strong Team for Europe" underlines the new alignment beyond conventional power plant technology.
The goal of the conference is to discuss the joint action of renewable and conventional power generation within the dramatically changing market environments in Germany and Europe from a technical perspective.
Please submit your Call for Papers by November 21, 2014, at the latest to:
mailto:stephanie.schlueter@vgb.org
http://www.vgb.org/en/kw_wettbewerb_2015.html
The VGB Conference "Gas Turbines and Operation of Gas Turbines" will take place in Luebeck, Germany, on May 6/7, 2015. Aim of the conference
is to meet the increasing requirements specified for gas turbine
operation with regard to availability, reliability and efficiency, and
lifetime consumption.
Please submit your Call for Papers by December 8, 2014, at the latest to:
mailto:diana.ringhoff@vgb.org
http://www.vgb.org/en/vfgt_2015.html
Some topics of the September issue are: Hydropower in the UK: Constantly growing (Andrew Logie, Hans-Christoph Funke and Olaf Heil); Production improvement of wind turbines by advanced yaw control (Fabio Bertolotti); Utilisation of biomass in power plants designed for coal combustion - Challenges, experience and technical solutions (Patrick Moenckert, Frank Kluger, Hellmuth Brüggemann and Gerald Schmidt); Perspectives of the German lignite industry 2014 (Matthias Hartung and George Milojcic).
Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/en/pt_09_14.html