3) VGB-M130e "Recommendation for the Introduction of Risk-based Maintenance"
4) VGB Report "Availability of Thermal Power Plants"
5) Instrumentation and Control Systems, Information Technology - VGB PowerTech Journal 8/2006
The Egmond aan Zee wind farm is the first big wind farm to be built in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. The farm comprises 36 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 3 MW. The farm is located 10 to 18 kilometres from the coast at Egmond aan Zee. All foundation piles were driven into the sea bed and 28 turbines have already been installed. The wind farm is being built by a joint venture between the utility company Nuon and the oil company Shell.
http://www.noordzeewind.nl/
In July 2006 the COMTES700-project experienced a year of successful operation. COMTES700 is a component test facility for advanced 700 °C power plants. The project found its’ beginning in July 2004. The motivation behind COMTES700 is to acquire experience in constructing boiler components for a 700 °C steam generator, further, operating under real working conditions for more than 20,000 hours.
A steam flow of 45 t/h is extracted from the boiler of the host plant Scholven, reaching temperatures of up to 705 °C in an evaporator and then progressing parallel through two superheater panels. The steam flows through either a turbine control valve or, HP-bypass valve, travelling with a reduced temperature returning into the host boiler.
The project is funded by the RFCS of the EC and supported by major European power station operators as well as suppliers. Coordination by VGB PowerTech e.V.
http://www.vgb.org/research_project261.html
In this leaflet recommendations for maintenance staff are given to introduce risk-based maintenance. The technical committee "Maintenance Management" of VGB worked on this recommendation.
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The VGB Report "Availability of Thermal Power Plants" for the period 1996 - 2005 can be acquired. The report analyses 370 power plants with a total capacity of 161,257 MW. Receive free of charge an outline of the report via e-mail:
mailto:stefan.prost@vgb.org
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Main topics of the August issue are: Power Plant Renewal in a Liberalised Market, Eskoms's Approach to Standardisation of the Process Control Strategies and Philosophies within its Power Plants, Industrial IT System 800xA - The Control System for the Next Generation of Power Plants.
Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/current_issue.html