1) Only Small PM Emissions from Power Plants in Germany
2) 64 Million Tonnes of Coal Combustion Products in Europe (EU15)
5) VGB-Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2007"
In the journal "Gefahrstoffe - Reinhaltung der Luft" 67 (2007), No. 5, pp 189 ff., there is a contribution "Emissions and abatement potential of primary anthropogenic fine particulate matter in Germany" which shows the high shares and abatement potentials for emissions of PM 10 and PM 2.5 of domestic heating and especially traffic and industrial production processes. The emissions contributions of public power plants and cogeneration plants (in 2010 for PM 10: 3.7 percent and for PM 2.5: 5.7 percent) are only very small.
http://www.gefahrstoffe.de/gest/article.php?data[article_id]=35264&keep_alive=yes&pos=
Based on the ECOBA statistics on "Production and Utilisation of Coal Combustion Products (CCPs) in Europe (EU 15) in 2005" about 64 million tonnes of CCPs were produced that year. Compared to 2004, the total amount of CCPs produced is as high as the year before. The amount of fly ash produced in coal-fired power plants was 0.5 million tonnes lower than in 2004, that one of FGD gypsum about 0.5 million tonnes higher.
The ECOBA statistics on "Production and Utilisation of Coal Combustion Products (CCPs) in Europe (EU 15) in 2005" can be downloaded from the website of ECOBA or will be provided upon request from the ECOBA secretariat.
mailto:info@ecoba.org
http://www.ecoba.org/evjm,media/ccps/ECO_Stat_2005_tab.pdf
The new Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 on shipments of waste has been published on July 12, 2006, in the EU Official Journal. Since July 12, 2007, the Regulation is to apply in the Member States. At the same time the hitherto Regulation (EEC) No 259/93 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community is repealed.
http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l11022.htm
The evaluation of first field applications of the new Guideline VGB-R610Ue - featuring the adjustment to the new basic standards - has proved the modified recommendations to be a further optimization step to cover the realistic stress and strain conditions in the shell structures. A numerically verified redistribution of the reinforcement (slight increase of the circumferential and slight decrease of the meridional reinforcement) contributes to improve the serviceability, maintaining the requirements concerning safety (bearing capacity) and economy.
http://www.vgb.org/shop/product_info.php/products_id/81
The Technical Committee "Chemistry" chose in the last meeting from the submitted lecture offers 30 titles, which were combined by VGB Offices to an interesting programme of the event taking place on October 24/25, 2007 in Rostock-Warnemünde .
http://www.vgb.org/cipp_07.html
The international VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2007" took place on May 22/23 in Vienna. It was fully booked with 92 guests from 22 countries. The contributions are available on CD rom.
The CD rom can be ordered online:
http://www.vgb.org/shop/product_info.php/products_id/495
Do you have any questions about a specific field please do not hesitate to contact the corresponding expert at VGB Offices. On the internet you may find an extensive catalogue of technical terms ("Safety and Health at Work", "Gas Turbines" or "Password and Address Administration"). After choosing the category and the specific subject the relevant experts are listed.
http://www.vgb.org/vgb_contact.html
As mentioned in Newsletter 04/2007, the Instruction Sheet M643U "Schornsteine für Betrieb ohne Wiederaufheizung der Abgase nach REA" is now released in English language.
It is available at VGB PowerTech Service GmbH entitled "Chimneys for Operation without Reheating of Flue Gas after FGD".
http://www.vgb.org/shop/product_info.php/products_id/497
The brochure "Role of Electricity" by Eurelectric is available now. The following link guides to the report (download).
http://www.eurelectric.eu/Content/Default.asp
The significance of coal for electricity production today and tomorrow considering reduction of carbon dioxide too, is represented in a comprehensive study (192 pages) by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
http://web.mit.edu/coal/The_Future_of_Coal.pdf