May 2014

News

1)  Round-robin Test on Mercury Determination in Solids

2)  VGB Research Foundation Supports Students' Attendance at the KELI 2014

3)  Reminder: VGB Quality Award 2014 Nominations Open Through 30 June 2014

4)  Reminder: VGB Safety and Health Award 2014 Nominations Open Through 30 June 2014

New publications

5)  Inspection and Testing of Large Forgings and Castings for Steam and Gas Turbine Generator Sets - VGB-S-504-00-2013-12-EN

6)  IT Security for Generating Plants - VGB-S-175-00-2014-04-EN

7)  VGB PowerTech Journal 5 (2014): Nuclear Power, Nuclear Power Plants: Operation and Operating Experience

Dates

VGB Conference "Steam Turbines and Operation of Steam Turbines 2014" with technical exhibition
May 21/22, 2014, Koblenz/Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/dt_2014.html

VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2014"
May 21/22, 2014, Marseille/France
http://www.vgb.org/vgborg/en/ws_fluegas_2014.html

VGB Congress "Power Plants 2014" with technical exhibition
September 17/18, 2014, Hamburg/Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/pp_2014.html

VGB Conference "EUROCOALASH 2014"
October 14/15, 2014, Munich/Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/eurocoalash2014.html

VGB Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2014" with technical exhibition
October 30/31, 2014, Linz/Austria
http://www.vgb.org/en/cik14.html


1) Round-robin Test on Mercury Determination in Solids

Meanwhile, various mercury-solid analysers are available on the market. The VGB Working Panel "Analytics" has therefore decided to carry out a round-robin test on the determination of mercury in coals in the second half of this year. Interested parties may register until June 16, 2014.

More information:
mailto:andreas.wecker@vgb.org

2) VGB Research Foundation Supports Students' Attendance at the KELI 2014

The VGB Research Foundation supported students' attendance at the VGB conference electrical engineering, C&I and IT in power plants (KELI 2014). Special lectures as well as personal talks with professionals were offered exclusively to the 70 students, who participated in the conference from May 6-8, 2014, in Landshut, Germany.

http://www.vgb.org/en/studentenforum_keli14.html

3) Reminder: VGB Quality Award 2014 Nominations Open Through 30 June 2014

VGB invites all ordinary members to propose a project of an outstanding quality for the VGB Quality Award 2014. The VGB Quality Award has been established to increase the awareness of the commercial value of quality and to highlight examples of suppliers who have delivered extraordinary quality in services and/or products. The VGB Quality Award is covering all electricity and heat generation technologies - renewables, distributed generation, hydro, oil-, gas- and coal fired power stations - and all kind of projects - new build, refurbishment, maintenance, or decommissioning.

http://www.vgb.org/en/quality_award.html

4) Reminder: VGB Safety and Health Award 2014 Nominations Open Through 30 June 2014

VGB invites all ordinary members to propose a project of an outstanding safety and health philosophy and implementation. The VGB Safety and Health Award has been established to increase the awareness of Safety and Health and to highlight examples of suppliers (contractors) with outstanding performance with regard to Safety and Health. The VGB Safety and Health Award is covering all electricity and heat generation technologies - renewables, distributed generation, hydro, oil-, gas- and coal fired power stations - and all kind of projects - for new build, refurbishment, maintenance, or decommissioning.

http://www.vgb.org/en/safety_health_award.html

5) Inspection and Testing of Large Forgings and Castings for Steam and Gas Turbine Generator Sets - VGB-S-504-00-2013-12-EN

More information about VGB-S-504-00-2013-12-EN "Inspection and Testing of Large Forgings and Castings for Steam and Gas Turbine Generator Sets" can be viewed at the following link:

http://www.vgb.org/shop/s-504e.html

6) IT Security for Generating Plants - VGB-S-175-00-2014-04-EN

More information about VGB-S-504-00-2013-12-EN "IT Security for Generating Plants" can be viewed at the following link:

http://www.vgb.org/shop/s-175e.html

7) VGB PowerTech Journal 5 (2014): Nuclear Power, Nuclear Power Plants: Operation and Operating Experience

Some topics of the May issue are: Operating experience with nuclear power plants 2013; Outage planning in nuclear power plants - a paradigm shift from an external towards an integrated project planning tool (Andreas Rosemann); The new generation of high-flexible combined cycle power plants (Martin Giehl, Marcus Beer and Olaf Kreyenberg); Compact turbines and alternative concepts for run-off-river power plants (Herfried Harreiter)

Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/en/pt_05_14.html