2) GLOBAL ENERGY-2005 PRIZE Awarded to Prof. Klaus Riedle
3) Rafael Miranda Robredo Elected EURELECTRIC President
4) 5. German Frame Work Program for Energy Research
5) Assessment of threats of the information technology and the process control in power plants
10) VGB-R610Ue "Structural Design of Cooling Towers" - Edition 2005
After re-design of the VGB Internet presence last year, VGB also re-structured its monthly Newsletter. The new VGB Newsletter is to inform you concisely about all news of our industry and our association. Links refer to more detailed and further information in the Internet.
http://www.vgb.org/re_designed_newsletter.html
Prof. Klaus Riedle, SIEMENS Power Generation Erlangen, and member of the board of the curators of the VGB Research Foundation whas been laureated by the international committee awarding the GLOBAL ENERGY-2005 PRIZE for his developments in the field of advanced gas turbines.
The prize, which had been put forward in 2003 by russian energy companies such as utility RAE EES Rossia, GASPROM and YUKOS, is provided with 1 Million US Dollars. The members of the awarding board, among them A. Chubais, A. Rumyantsev and M. Gorbatchov, divided the prize this year among 89 candidates between Prof. Riedle and the russian academician Prof. Alfiorov for his developments in the field of physics of semi- conductors.
http://www.ge-prize.ru/
Rafael Miranda Robredo of the Spanish electricity company Endesa was elected new president of EURELECTRIC, succeeding Hans Haider from Austria. Lars Josefsson of the Swedish company Vattenfall was elected Vice President.
The 5th Framework Program of the German Federal Government considered an balanced mix of energy technologies for the new R&D program. The increase of the efficiency of hard coal and lignite fired power plants are again an essential issue.
http://www.bmwa.bund.de/Navigation/Service/bestellservice,did=65138.html
Main emphasise of the work of the WP is the topic IT-security and IT-reliability. The WP compiled in addition a graphic overview. Firstly possible threats and sources of errors were listed up. For these possible organizational and technical counter measures are stated. Additionally it was referred to detailed information sources. In next step short texts is to be compiled.
http://www.vgb.org/plantmanagement.html
On June 8/9, 2005 ECOBA, the European Coal Combustion Products Association, held a two-day conference in Brussels entitled "Coal Combustion Products in Europe – Sustainable Materials for the Future". More than 90 participants from different industry sectors discussed measures to further increase the utilisation of CCPs in the EU member states as part of Clean Coal Technology and impacts of European regulations.
The press release to the conference is available at: http://www.ecoba.org">http://www.ecoba.org
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Presentations made at the "European CO2 Capture and Storage Conference - Towards Zero Emission Power Plants", Brussels, 13-15 April 2005, are now available.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/energy/index_en.htm
The VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2005" in Linkebeek, Belgium with 62 participants was very successful for the first workshop outside of Germany. The contributions mainly reported on optimisation of flue gas cleaning techniques and with retrofit application of flue gas cleaning devices. Actual planning is, to organise workshops on further development of flue gas cleaning techniques with an annual sequence in different European countries.
http://www.vgb.org/flue_gas_2005_e.html
Due to significant developments of commercially available coating products for surface protections, experience feedback from the application practice as well as long-term operational findings a revision of the obsolete version 1999 of the guideline had been initiated.
The shortly available second edition 2005 describes the essential minimum requirements with respect to chemical and mechanical resistance, penetration properties and aging behaviour as well as the application of coating systems for all function relevant building components of cooling towers and windshields of chimneys. Subsurface preparations are explained as part of the total procedure.
http://www.vgb.org/shop/product_info.php/products_id/408
The completely revised version 2005 of the technical guideline for the structural design, computation and execution of cooling towers which has been published – so far – in German language replaces the obsolete edition from 1997. The English translation is intended to be published before end of 2005.
After the (obligatory) introduction of the revised German Standards DIN 1045 and DIN 1055 which now correspond to the requirements and concepts of the equivalent European Standards with regard to material properties, actions, computation and dimensioning procedures as well as durable executions the revision of obsolete guideline was necessary.
http://www.vgb.org/shop/product_info.php/products_id/409
In the past, the various different project instructions for the supply of technical documentation always had to be agreed afresh between customers and contractors when executing a project. Every deviation from the standard in question entailed substantial and costly amendments and changes for the party affected.
These VGB Guidelines for the supply of technical documentation for fossil-fired and regenerative power stations represent clear and unequivocal documents relating to project tenders and execution, and are intended to ensure rational and smooth production and delivery of documentation as part of the co-operation between customer and contractor to increase efficiency.
These outline Guidelines give the contractor clear information about the agreed scope of supply of the hand-over documentation in as much detail as necessary. The objective is to obtain bids in response to the invitation to tender with prices that can be compared with each other, and contain all the customer's expectations in terms of delivery, as demanded by European legislation (sector guidelines).
http://www.vgb.org/shop/product_info.php/products_id/411