2) GDF SUEZ and Solar Power Group will Develop a Concentrated Solar Power Project in Chile
3) Heinrich-Mandel Prize 2010 for Florian Mura
6) VGB-R613 "Guideline for Life Time Management of Reinforced Concrete Cooling Towers in Power Plants"
"Renewables, Nuclear, Coal and Gas - Technologies for a Low-carbon Future". This was the slogan of the VGB Congress "Power
Plants 2010", which took place with more than 1.300 participants from
30 nations in Essen/Germany on September 22 - 24, 2010.
The Congress participants, who came from all over the world, had the opportunity to discuss within the scope of the comprehensive Congress programme the future of electricity supply that will have to take into account and implement the ambitious requirements of society and politics. The focus is on the massive extension of renewable sources of energy and the implementation of possibly CO2-free electricity generation.
Press release:
http://www.vgb.org/en/news_22_09_2010_en.html
GDF SUEZ and Solar Power Group have agreed to jointly develop a 5 MW thermal Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant which will supply superheated steam to the Mejillones coal-fired plant (150 MW) in the North of Chile. The Chilean project consists of a solar boiler and its connection to the coal fired power plant. The solar boiler, that produces super-heated steam, is constituted of modules developed by Solar Power Group using its Fresnel technology.
http://www.gdfsuez.com/en/news/press-releases/press-releases/?communique_id=1313
The VGB Research Foundation awarded the Heinrich-Mandel Prize 2010 to Florian Mura, E.ON Energy Research Center, Aachen, for the analysis of a gas turbine system, which can be operated at optimized speed disregard of the load conditions set by the net frequency. The 10,000 Euro prize was handed over by the VGB chairman on the occasion of the VGB Congress "Power Plants 2010" on September 22, 2010, in Essen/Germany.
http://www.vgb.org/en/research_mandel.html
On the occasion of the opening ceremony of the VGB Congress POWER PLANTS in Essen on September 22, 2010, the VGB Quality Award was rewarded for the fifth time. Lutz Fongern received the prize for the Alstom Power Service GmbH for the outstanding quality of the revision of the 500 MW turbines of the blocks C and D in the lignite power station Jaenschwalde.
http://www.vgb.org/en/quality_award.html
The information brochure "Electricity Generation - Facts and Figures" had been published by VGB for the first time in 2003. This flyer is intended to inform you at annual intervals about latest developments in power generation. The new edition is available for download now.
http://www.vgb.org/en/data_powergeneration.html
The new guideline deals with the life time management of power plant cooling towers. The main request is the maintenance concerning measures to ensure the safety of a cooling tower. The life time management already starts with the planning resp. erection of a cooling tower and is being continued during the whole service life.
For the planning and execution of necessary maintenance measures it is recommended to use a cooling tower book. The guideline contains specimen sheets for such a book.
The guideline is only available in German.
http://www.vgb.org/shop/r-613.html
The Technical-scientific Report "Availability of Thermal Power Plants" for the period 2000 to 2009 can be bought now. The report analyses 567 power plant units with a total capacity of 232,000 MW.
Receive free of charge an outline of the report via e-mail:
mailto:stefan.prost@vgb.org
Order the report:
mailto:mark@vgb.org
Main topics of the October issue are: Ageing Management of Electrical and C/I-Systems in Power Plants of RWE Power AG; Advantages of Horizontal and Vertical Integration in Process- and Switch Gear Control; Connection of Auxiliary Power Supply to the Power Plants Main Instrumentation and Control System by Way of IEC 61850; Biomass Co-combustion in the Elverlingsen Power Plant - Innovative Combustion Optimisation Increases Possibilities of Adding Meat und Bone Meal by 33 per cent.
Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/en/current_issue.html