1) Merry Christmas and a Successful New Year
2) Global CCS Institute published 2012 status report
3) UK cost report confirms competitiveness of CCS
4) Deferral of NER300 funding decision proposed
6) VGB Safety & Health Award 2012 Granted for the First Time
7) VGB Quality Award 2012 for FutureEnergy
8) E-world energy & water 2013
9) VGB Job Market: Current Vacancies
10) The Next VGB Newsletter Will be Published in February 2013
11) Sampling and Physico-Chemical Monitoring of Water and Steam Cycles - VGB-S-006-00-2012-09-EN
12) Coal Bunkers – Planning, Design, Equipment and Operation - VGB-M206e
13) Gas Distributor Plates in Fluidized Bed Systems - VGB-M218e
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.
The Global CCS Institute (GCCSI) published the fourth edition of its annual status report on progress and challenges of carbon capture and storage (CCS). The report provides a comprehensive overview of the state of development of CCS projects, it covers developments from late 2011 until the beginning of September 2012.
Around the world, eight large-scale CCS projects are storing about 23 million tonnes of CO2 each year. With a further eight projects currently under construction (including two in the electricity generation sector), that figure will increase to over 36 million tonnes of CO2 a year by 2015.
The report covers altogether 75 large-scale integrated projects (LSIPs). Five of nine new projects are in China. In Norway the Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM), an industrial-scale test centre for carbon capture, was opened in 2012. Southern Company’s post-combustion Plant Barry in the US recently became the world’s largest integrated CCS project at a coal-fired power plant (25 MW-equivalent, CO2 storage in saline aquifer). Advances in oxyfuel combustion have also been realised through the commissioning of two pilot-scale oxyfuel combustion projects, CIUDEN in Spain and Callide in Australia.
Two large-scale demonstration power plant projects with CCS are currently under construction and scheduled to start operation in 2014: Kemper County in Mississippi/US (pre combustion, 3.5 Mt CO2 p.a., 75 km onshore pipeline, EOR) and Boundary Dam in Saskatchewan/Canada (post combustion, 1 Mt CO2 p.a., 100km onshore pipeline, EOR). In Australia Chevron’s Gorgon CCS demonstration project with CO2 capture from natural gas processing is on schedule, storage of 3.5 Mt CO2 p.a. is planned from 2015 (pre combustion, 7 km onshore pipeline, saline aquifer). In Alberta/Canada Shell’s Quest project is under construction and shall start operation in 2015, it will capture and store more than one million tonnes of CO2 per year from hydrogen production at the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (pre combustion, 84 km onshore pipeline, saline aquifer).
http://www.globalccsinstitute.com/publications/global-status-ccs-2012
The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has published a cost report on fossil fired power plants with CCS. It is expected that coal and natural gas based power plants with carbon capture and storage in UK will become competitive compared to other low-carbon forms of energy in the early 2020s.
http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/emissions/ccs/ccs.aspx
Many organizations and companies as well as the European Technology Platform ZEP have addressed the European Commission and asked to defer the funding decision for CCS demonstration plants, planned for end 2012, by a few months. Several demonstration projects, which applied for NER300 funding, should be able to take a final investment decision if the requested political and financial support of the respective member state will be confirmed.
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2225236/ccs-companies-call-on-eu-to-delay-funding-decision
The final conference of the DEBCO research project took place in Brussels on December 10/11, 2012. VGB organized this conference with support of GDF Suez/TRACTEBEL. More than 85 participants from 14 countries were present. The results of the research project were imparted to the audience in 18 presentations covering the whole field of biomass utilization in large scale power plants, from incentive systems and supply chains, design and optimization of co-firing configurations to combustion and boiler performance as well as flue gas cleaning and ash utilization.
The presentations will be available in January 2013. To subscribe to the mailing list, please send an e-mail to:
mailto:sebastian.zimmerling@vgb.org
On October 10, 2012 the "VGB Safety & Health Award" was granted for the first time on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the VGB Congress POWER PLANTS in Mannheim/Germany. The Safety & Health Award awarded by VGB PowerTech for the recognition of outstanding safety and health projects in the new construction of power plants. The winner of the first "VGB Safety & Health Award" is the project "Ash removal and silo technology in the E.ON new plant construction project 1100 MW unit Maasvlakte 3". Volkmar-Stephan Mueller received the prize for the FLSmidth Hamburg GmbH. FLSmidth Hamburg GmbH was responsible for implementing the ash removal and silo technology. In doing so, FLSmidth Hamburg distinguished itself in its high level of understanding of occupational safety.
The "VGB Safety & Health Award" will be granted annually at the VGB Congress.
http://www.vgb.org/en/safety_health_award.html
On the occasion of the opening ceremony of the VGB Congress POWER PLANTS in Mannheim/Germany on October 10, 2012, the VGB Quality Award was rewarded for the seventh time. Ivan Franckx received the prize for the FutureEnergy, a joint venture between Fabricom-GDF Suez, Lemants and Geosea for the outstanding "quality of the erection of two substations for the London Array wind farm project" by plant operator E.ON Climate and Renewables.
http://www.vgb.org/en/quality_award.html
E-world energy & water 2013 International Fair and Congress, February 5 - 7, 2013, 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 2013 in Hall 3 - Booth 161.
Vouchers for a day-ticket could be asked before January 29, 2013, at:
mailto:angela.langen@vgb.org
Further information on the fair:
http://www.e-world-2013.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 7, 2013.
Further information about VGB-S-006-00-2012-09-EN "Sampling and Physico-Chemical Monitoring of Water and Steam Cycles" can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.vgb.org/shop/s-006-2012-en.html
Further information about VGB-M206e "Coal Bunkers – Planning, design, equipment and operation" can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.vgb.org/shop/m206e.html
Further information about VGB-M218e "Gas distributor plates in fluidized bed systems" can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.vgb.org/shop/m218e.html
The Media Data 2013 for the international journal VGB PowerTech is now available.
Media Data provide information on the geographical circulation and readers' structure of VGB PowerTech as well as details on advertisements, the job market powerjobs.vgb.org and the focal topics for the 2013 issues.
Download:
http://www.vgb.org/en/advertisement_media_consulting.html
Free-of-charge print version can be obtained from:
mailto:ads@vgb.org
Main topics of the December issue are: VGB Congress "Power Plants 2012" - Security of Supply - Power Generation at the Crossroads?; Experimental investigation of stratified two-phase flows in the hot leg of a PWR for CFD validation; What can 50 Hz market learn from the 60 Hz market to avoid generator and exciter failures and damages?; Improved FGD absorber and ESP performance at Iskenderun power plant.
Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/en/current_issue.html