1) Merry Christmas and a Successful New Year
2) UK Approves Welsh 750 MW Gwynt y Mor Offshore Wind Farm
3) REpower and DOTI Sign Supply Contract for Six REpower 5M for the Offshore Windfarm alpha ventus
4) European Success Story COMTES700 - Cleaner Coal
5) RDS-PP: The New Reference Designation System for Power Plants
6) REACH: Pre-registration of Coal Combustion Products Finished
7) New Research Projects on the Use of Fly Ash in Air Entrained Concrete
8) Use of Fly Ash in Concrete - Practical Examples in VGB PowerTech Journal 11/2008
9) Power Plant Information System KISSY with New Features
10) Call for Papers - European Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2009"
11) Waste Framework Directive Published
12) VGB-R109 "Material Specification for Components under Pressure in Fossil-fired Power Plants"
13) VGB-TW103Ae "Analysis of Unavailability of Thermal Power Plants"
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.
npower renewables, the UK fully owned subsidiary of RWE Innogy, has been granted consent by the Department of Energy and Climate Change to build and operate the 750 MW Gwynt y Mor wind farm off the coast of North Wales. The wind farm design comprises an array of offshore wind turbines each with an installed capacity of between 3 to 5 MW. Depending on the tides, the wind turbines would stand in water depths of between 12 and 34 metres. Currently, it is anticipated that offshore construction works could begin in 2011 with final commissioning in 2014.
http://www.npower-renewables.com/gwyntymor/index.asp
REpower Systems AG and Deutsche Offshore Testfeld und Infrastrukturgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (DOTI) have just signed the contract for the supply and installation of six REpower 5M wind turbines. The installation of the REpower turbines is expected to begin in the middle of July 2009 on the construction site of alpha ventus, 45 kilometres north of Borkum Island, Germany.
http://www.alpha-ventus.de/index.php?id=80
The R&D project COMTES700 was selected as one of the most successful R&D projects under the roof of the European Research Agenda in FP6.
Funded by the Research Fund for Coal and Steel, 16 European generators and equipment suppliers are collaborating in COMTES700. The goal of the COMTES700 project is to design and build a test facility for Ni-based alloys, integrate this test facility into an operating boiler and to run this test facility about 30,000 hours. Based on the successful operation of COMTES700, power plants with a net efficiency of 50 percent can be designed and realized. E.ON has already announced a 700 °C power plant project called 50plus to be erected at Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
The European Commission has published a book covering the whole range of Research & Development activities; in the field of energy only two projects were selected, one of them is COMTES700. The publication can be ordered or downloaded for free from the EU Bookstore:
http://bookshop.europa.eu/eubookshop/publicationDetails.action?pubuid=628043&offset=0
On November 15, 2008, the ISO/TS 16952-10 "Technical product documentation - Reference designation system - part 10" was published. As the VGB-Guideline B101e "Reference Designation System for Power Plants" (System Key) is based on this international standard, RDS-PP is an internationally normatively authorised designation system now.
On October 16, 2008, an RDS-PP information event took place in Essen. The event, financed by several sponsors, attracted 100 participants from about 40 companies. The presentations are available in the VGB website for free download:
http://www.vgb.org/index.php?site=vgbmultimedia&id=2493
On December 1, 2008, the statutory period for the pre-registration of substances according the REACH regulation run out. The European producers of coal combustion products have pre-registered especially FGD gypsum and ashes. Pre-registrants of the same substance will find themselves in a so called pre-SIEF. In each pre-SIEF one of the pre-registrants applied for the role of a facilitator. The facilitator will start the communication in the pre-SIEF as soon as the REACH IT software will allow it. The most important aim is to identify the pre-registrants in view to the sameness of the pre-registered substances. Producers of the same substances are requested to prepare a registration dossier in a joined way. Due to the huge number of pre-registrations (calcium sulfate: 1454; ash: 1066; slags, coal: 518) the identification work will take some time.
More Information:
mailto:hans-joachim.feuerborn@vgb.org
mailto:fritz.peters@vgb.org
Two new Research projects - funded by the AiF - started in March 2008. The projects are to investigate the interaction of different concrete components with regard to the use in air entrained concretes.
The first project deals with the basic principles of the interaction of concrete admixtures. It is supervised by the Forschungsinstitut der Zementindustrie (FIZ).
The aim of the second project "Production of Air-entrained Fly Ash Concrete with Plasticising Concrete Admixtures", is i.a. the development of a practicable test method to systematically assess the interactions of different concrete admixtures regarding the air void formation. This project is supervised by VGB-Research.
http://www.vgb.org/en/research_project310.html
In VGB PowerTech Journal 11/2008 two examples for the use of fly ash in mass concrete and in air entrained concrete for hydraulic engineering are described. Furthermore, an article dealing with the future development of regulations for the use of fly ash in concrete and another article about the future marketing of fly ash are published. These reports have been presented to specialists at the BVK/VGB conference "Fly ash in concrete - new applications" in Frankfurt/Germany in April 10, 2008.
http://www.vgb.org/en/pt_11_2008_e.html
The Power Plant Information System KISSY has been revised and equipped with new features. It has been multilingually equipped by VGB to document VGB's way towards Europe. The Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese languages are currently being offered. In addition to the performance indicators already existing further commercial (e.g. EEX data) and international indicators (e.g. UAGS) were included into KISSY. To evaluate these performance indicators, the new feature "Online Evaluation" can be used via the internet browser. We would like to present the new features in a one-day workshop. Discussions about your requirements and individual requests are welcome. The workshop will take place in Essen on February 5, 2009, and will be held in English.
More information:
mailto:stefan.prost@vgb.org
The last VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning" was successfully held in Vilnius/Lithuania with 105 participants. The next VGB European Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2009" is scheduled to take place in Rome/Italy on June 16/17, 2009. Please submit your Call for Papers covering any aspects of Flue Gas Cleaning (separation of fly ash, NOx, SOx, Hg from flue gas, FGD waste water treatment, CCS) by January 10, 2009, at the latest to:
mailto:bernhard.pieper@vgb.org
mailto:ines.moors@vgb.org
http://www.vgb.org/en/fluegas_2009.html
The revised Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC) was signed on behalf of the European Parliament and the Council on November 19, 2008, and has now been published in the Official Journal (OJ) of the European Union L312/3.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:312:0003:0030:EN:PDF
The bilingual VGB-Guideline R109 "Material Specification for Components under Pressure in Fossil-fired Power Plants" applies to the steam boiler assembly and pipelines of the water/steam cycle. It shall clearly determine the delivery contract and the subsequent contract administration between customer, manufacturer and material manufacturer or supplier, and thus enable a rationalisation of the order and order processing.
The material specification provides a collection of experiences and recommendations compiled to the best of knowledge and coordinated between the parties involved in the construction of the power plant. It intends to summarise the requirements on material manufacturers or suppliers and on the provision of materials for pressure equipment usually used in the 600 °C power plant generation to facilitate the order basis between the parties involved. Regulations from data sheets and directives exceeding the requirement of the EN standards, were editorially integrated to a large extent.
http://www.vgb.org/shop/product_info.php/products_id/500
The VGB Technical-scientific Report "Analysis of Unavailability of Thermal Power Plants" for the operation decade from 1998 to 2007 will be available in German and English (pdf-file) by December 15, 2008.
The report provides information about weak points of equipment and power plant systems. VGB is analysing the annual unavailability (UA analysis) in order to identify the root causes, i.e. those systems causing unavailability to be able to upgrade such weak equipment. The systems and equipment to be analysed are specified according to the KKS power plant identification system.
Receive free of charge an outline of the report via e-mail:
mailto:stefan.prost@vgb.org
Main topics of the December issue are: VGB Congress "Power Plants 2008", conference proceedings; The Role of Electricity - Technologies for a Secure and Competitive Energy in a Carbon-constrained World; Carbon Capture & Storage - A Technology for the Coal-fired Power Plant of the Future; Nuclear Energy and Renewable Energies - Two Technologies for a CO2-free Electricity Generation.
Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/en/current_issue.html