1) IED Guideline: Report of the EP Rapporteur on the Common Position of the Council
2) Siemens to Build Wind Turbine Production Plant in the UK
3) Heinrich Mandel-Prize 2009 - Call for Proposals
4) Call for Papers - VGB Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2010"
7) VGB-B103d+e "Designation Codes for Document Kind Classification Codes in Power Plants (DCC Key)"
The rapporteur of the European Parliament, Holger Krahmer, has tabled his draft recommendations for the EP's second reading. He cancels most of the flexibility mechanisms provided in the Common Position of the Council, e.g. a transitional national plan for old plants, an opt-out possibility for plants with a declared limited remaining operating time of max. 20.000 hours and a limited exception for old plants < 200 MW (th) feeding > 50 percent heat into the public district heat grid. Possibilities to deviate from BAT shall be constricted. H. Krahmer opposes the implementation of an emissions trading system for SO2 and NOx.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-430.626+02+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN
Siemens Energy is to build a new production plant for offshore wind turbines in the UK. With the new plant Siemens wants to meet the growing demand for wind turbines for British offshore projects.
Siemens has an order backlog of more than 3000 megawatts. Today, approximately 40 percent of the wind power generated in the UK is produced with Siemens wind turbines.
http://www.siemens.com/press/pool/de/pressemitteilungen/2010/renewable_energy/ERE201003052e.pdf
The VGB Research Foundation has rewarded outstanding achievements by young university graduates (age limit: 35 years) working in the field of power and heat generation with the Heinrich-Mandel Prize for over 25 years. The prize is endowed with 10,000 Euro and is awarded annually on the occasion of the VGB Congress POWER PLANTS. The work that is to be honoured in this way can relate either to new findings in the operation of power and heat generation plants, or to important research results.
Based on the award guideline, all VGB member companies as well as the Board, and the Technical and Scientific Advisory Boards of VGB have the right to propose candidates by April 30, 2010.
http://www.vgb.org/en/research_mandel.html
VGB’s annual Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants" will take place at the MARITIM Congress Centrum Bremen/Germany on October 27/28, 2010. The conference is a forum for operators of energy utilities and industrial power plants. Operating experience will be discussed and technical developments will be presented in the field of power plant chemistry.
Please submit your Call for Papers by April 30, 2010, at the latest to:
mailto:ines.moors@vgb.org
http://www.vgb.org/vgbmultimedia/Veranstaltungen/CIK10/CallCIK10_e.pdf
The VGB Job Market is offering prospective persons the possibility to
develop their career in the range of power and heat generation. You
can find current vacancies on our homepage.
http://www.vgb.org/en/jobmarket.html
"Power Plant Technology 2010", the leading Trade Fair for Power Plant Design, Systems, Operation and Maintenance takes place from 19 to 23 April 2010, Hannovermesse. VGB, FDBR, EPPSA and the EnergieAgentur NRW will participate again with a joint booth in Hall 13, Booth number 013 C35. We are looking forward to meet you.
For free entrance tickets please use the online registration:
http://www.hannovermesse.de/ticketregistration?Rg6aehtye5qvfe
The VGB Guideline B103 describes the structure of this document kind classification code (DCC). Its relation the document identifications which are commonly used in the power plant technology is listed in tables.
The concrete use of the DCC is described in the VGB Guideline R171 "Supply of technical documentation (data, documents) for power plants". The relevant designation of documents is determined by means of the document kind classification code DCC, which specifies the content of the information of documents. The DCC is part of the document code, consisting beyond this of the object designation code, which describes the relevant object.
http://www.vgb.org/shop/b103d-e.html
Main topics of the April issue are: Development Perspectives of Lignite-based IGCC-Plants with CCS; SCR DENOX Trends 2009; Wet Flue Gas Discharge in the Maasvlakte Power Plant 1 and 2; Requirements on Flue Gas Cleaning Under Oxyfuel Conditions.
Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/en/current_issue.html