November 2014

News

1)  Statements on the EC's 2030 Climate & Energy Policy Framework

2)  Indications for legally compliant behavior

3)  Call for Papers - VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2015"

New publications

4)  Part A: In-service monitoring of turbine oils in steam and gas turbines / Part B: In-service monitoring of fire-resistant fluids for steam and gas turbines - VGB-S-416-00-2014-08-EN

5)  VGB PowerTech Journal 11 (2014): Fuel Technology and Furnaces

Dates

VGB Workshop "IT-Security in Power Generation"
November 26, 2014, Essen, Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/ws_it_security_2014.html

VGB Conference "Maintenance of Wind Power Plants 2015"
February 24/25, 2015, Cologne, Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/wea_2015.html

VGB Conference "Generation in Competition 2015" with technical exhibition
April 21/22, 2015, Berlin, Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/kw_wettbewerb_2015.html

VGB Conference "Gas Turbines and Operation of Gas Turbines 2015" with technical exhibition
May 6/7, 2015, Luebeck, Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/vfgt_2015.html

VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2015"
6/7 May 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
http://www.vgb.org/en/ws_fluegas_2015.html

VGB Congress "Power Plants 2015" with technical exhibition
September 9/10, 2015, Vienna, Austria
http://www.vgb.org/en/pp_2015.html

VGB Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2015" with technical exhibition
28/29 October 2015, Berlin, Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/cik15.html

Information for Members

> List of New Power Plants in Europe: Update October 2014 <
The list New Power Plants comprises power plants in planning and under construction in Europe. Energy sources like gas, hard coal, lignite, wind, water, waste etc. are considered. Based on the list, the planned total output (MW) and the portions of the sources of energy (MW) can be determined. The current list is available in myVGB for download:
https://www.vgb.org/en/newplants.html

Abstracts of Minutes

Materials and Quality Supervision - 22nd October 2014
https://www.vgb.org/en/kf_fa_wq_35.html

Gas Turbines - 19th/20th March 2014
https://www.vgb.org/en/kf_ak_gt_36.html

1) Statements on the EC's 2030 Climate & Energy Policy Framework

After a long struggle, in the early hours of 24 October 2014, the European Council came to an agreement about the 2030 climate & energy policy framework. Referring to 1990, European CO2 emissions should be decreased by 40 per cent until 2030. The essential instrument to achieve this purpose is a reformed EU Emission Trading System (ETS). The contribution of the sectors included in the ETS is at 43 per cent (referring to 2005 figures). The target of 27 per cent renewable share in energy consumption will not be transferred into binding national targets. The increase of energy efficiency by 27 per cent is drafted least concrete.

2) Indications for legally compliant behavior

The legally compliant behavior in the committee work of VGB PowerTech e.V. has been specified on request of different international VGB members by the VGB "Code of Conduct". The current English version will be complimented by a German version shortly.

The VGB "Code of Conduct" is available here:
http://www.vgb.org/vgbmultimedia/FinalCodeofConductMay2013.pdf

3) Call for Papers - VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2015"

The VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2015" takes place in
Istanbul/Turkey on May 6/7, 2015. This workshop covers all aspects
of flue gas cleaning activities as well as of online monitoring and
instrumentation for emission detection.

Please submit proposals for papers by January 23, 2015, at the latest
to:
mailto:ines.moors@vgb.org
http://www.vgb.org/en/ws_fluegas_2015.html

4) Part A: In-service monitoring of turbine oils in steam and gas turbines / Part B: In-service monitoring of fire-resistant fluids for steam and gas turbines - VGB-S-416-00-2014-08-EN

The VGB-S-416-00-2014-08-EN now available as ebook. More information can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.vgb.org/shop/s-416e-ebook.html

5) VGB PowerTech Journal 11 (2014): Fuel Technology and Furnaces

Modifications of hard coal fired power plants in view of extended coal range (Andreas Schmidt); Mechanised UT - inspection of turbine shafts during outages according to the state of the art (Klaus Leupoldt); The wet limestone-gypsum FGD and the value of the ORP (Frans van Dijen); Ceramic tile systems in circulated fluidised bed power stations - An alternative refractory lining concept for highly stressed combustion chambers and cyclones (Markus Horn, Ulrich Ehrentraut and Frieder Schell); The Erding geothermal project (Andreas Böffel)

Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/en/pt_11_14.html