1) Merry Christmas and a Successful New Year
2) Countdown to EU REACH Registration and CLP Notification
3) Revision of Seveso-II-Directive
5) Call for Papers - VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2011"
6) E-world energy & water 2011
7) VGB Job Market: Current Vacancies
8) The Next VGB Newsletter Will be Published in February 2011
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.
On December 1, 2010, the deadline to register substances according the REACH Regulation (EC 1907/2006) produced in quantities of more than 1,000 tonnes ended. The deadline for REACH registration of substances produced in quantities of more than 100 tonnes will end on June 1, 2013, and for those produced in quantities of 1 tonne or more will end on June 1, 2018.
Beside the REACH Regulation also the Regulation on classification, labelling and packaging (CLP - EN 1272/2008) has to be considered. This regulation harmonises the provisions and criteria for the classification and labelling of substances, mixtures and certain articles. According to article 39 and 40 of this Regulation manufacturers or importers, or a group of manufacturers or importers who places on the market a substance have to notify information, e. g. identity and classification of the substance to the ECHA, independent whether the substance has hazardous properties or not.
Manufacturers or importers, which have already registered the substances according to the REACH Regulation have automatically fulfilled the requirement of the CLP regulation. Manufacturers or importers having not yet registered, e.g. due to lower production volume and extended deadline to June 1, 2013, have to notify the information required by art. 40 CLP to the ECHA by January 3, 2011. Alternatively they may register immediately according to REACH regulation.
Details on notification of substances are available at:
http://echa.europa.eu/clp/inventory_notification/notification_who_en.asp
Due to the changes in the EU system of classification of dangerous substances (according to the Globally Harmonised System - GHS) the Directive on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (Seveso II Directive) has to be amended. In November the Commission has issued a first draft proposal for this amendment. According to the Aarhus Convention the information of the public will be increased; there will also be some changes concerning the reporting obligations. In spite of a changed classification nomenclature the threshold values in Annex 1 for NH3 and aqueous NH3 remain; the same applies to gas oil, Hydrazine, SO3 and H2. Also for PCDD/F the threshold value remains, only the assessment of the congeners has been updated. CO2 is not in the list. Very relevant is the inclusion of heavy fuel oil into Annex 1 (with the same threshold values as for gas oil, i.e. 2,500 t for the lower tier and 25,000 t for the upper tier). Heavy fuel oil is not listed in the current Seveso II Directive and thus has not to be taken into account up to now.
It has to be expected that a lot of power plants would be affected by the inclusion of heavy fuel oil. In this case VGB Offices asks you for feedback to:
mailto:volker.hamacher@vgb.org
One year ago the last of the twelve turbines of alpha ventus was assembled - completing Germany's first offshore wind farm. Since the gradual commissioning of the turbines, the offshore test field has fed some 170 gigawatt hours of power into the national power grid and has already achieved an balanced EROEI (Energy Return on Energy Invested). This pioneering project provides not only its operators EWE, E.ON and Vattenfall, but also the entire start-up Offshore Wind Energy industry with fundamental experience in the construction and operation of additional offshore wind farms planned for the North and Baltic Seas.
http://www.alpha-ventus.de/index.php?id=80
The next VGB European Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2011" is scheduled to take place in Helsinki/Finland on May 25/26, 2011. Please submit your paper by January 10, 2011, at the latest.
mailto:ines.moors@vgb.org
http://www.vgb.org/flue_gas_cleaning_2011.html
E-world energy & water 2011 International Fair and Congress, February 8 - 10, 2011, Messe Essen/Germany. The E-world energy & water is the annual meeting point for the energy and water industry.
The associations VGB and AGFW will again be represented on a joint booth. We are pleased to welcome you to the E-world 2010 in Hall 3 - Booth 443.
Vouchers for a day-ticket could be asked before February 2, 2011, at:
mailto:angela.langen@vgb.org
http://www.e-world-2011.com/en/home/
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
The next edition of the VGB Newsletter will be published on February 8, 2011.
Main topics of the December issue are: VGB Congress "Power Plants 2010" report on the opening ceremony; 90 Years VGB - Practical Reason in a Technical Culture; E-Learning - Today and Tomorrow; Accurately Fitting Advances Training - Flexible Simulator Training by Modular Training Course Concepts.
Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/en/current_issue.html