1) Seveso-III-Directives Published
2) E.ON Starts Construction of Power-to-gas Pilot Plant in Germany
3) Call for Papers - VGB Conference "Gas Turbines and Operation of Gas Turbines 2013"
6) VGB-TW103Ve "Availability of Thermal Power Plants 2002 - 2011"
On July 24, 2012, the "Directives 2012/18/EU... of July 4, 2012, on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances..." were published in the Official Journal L 197/1 of the European Union. In this paper the already existing inspection rules are tightened, the involvement of the public is strengthened. Useful for discussions with the authorities regarding the classification of heavy fuel oil could be Article 30 which assigns the HFO directly to the category "Petroleum products" in the Seveso-II-Directive. The national implementation of this article has to be fulfilled by February 14, 2014, differing from the deadline for the implementation of the other rules of the new Directives (May 31, 2015).
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:197:0001:0037:EN:PDF
Construction of E.ON’s new pilot plant to enable power generated by the wind to be stored in the gas grid is now underway. The plant will be built in Falkenhagen, located in north-east Germany. From 2013 onwards the power-to-gas plant will handle excess power that is generated by wind farms and cannot be fed into the power grid. By storing the excess power, wind farms, which would otherwise be shutdown for a while to avoid bottlenecks in the power grid, can continue to generate power.
The plant works by using electrolysis. In the process about 360 m³ of hydrogen is produced per hour. This hydrogen can then be treated like natural gas. Once the process is complete, it can then be fed into the regional gas grid where it is then available for producing heat and power.
http://www.eon.com/en/media/news/press-releases/2012/8/21/eon-startsconstruction-of-power-to-gas-pilot-plant-in-germany.html
The VGB Conference "Gas Turbines and Operation of Gas Turbines 2013" takes place in the Kultur- und Congress-Centrum Graf-Zeppelin-Haus in Friedrichshafen on June 11/12, 2013.
Please submit your paper by December 12, 2012, at the latest to:
http://www.vgb.org/vgbmultimedia/Veranstaltungen/Ringhoff/GT13/CFPenglish_GT13.pdf
mailto:diana.ringhoff@vgb.org
The VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2013" is scheduled to take place in Rotterdam/The Netherlands on May 15/16, 2013. Please submit your proposals for presentations and lecturers with e-mail by December 30, 2012, at the latest.
mailto:ines.moors@vgb.org
http://www.vgb.org/en/ws_fluegas_2013.html
Further information about VGB-S-008-S-00-2011-03-EN "Recommendations for the SIL classification of safety-related systems in steam boiler systems and systems in the water-steam circuit" can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.vgb.org/shop/s-008-2012-e.html
Further information about VGB-TW103Ve "Availability of Thermal Power Plants 2002 - 2011, Edition 2012 (only PDF)" can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.vgb.org/shop/tw103ve.html
Main topics of the September issue are: Hydropower - backbone of green energy sales; Future trends in the wind energy industry. Conventional power plant engineering provide blueprint for forward-looking process and quality planning; Status and future development of solar thermal power plants; STEAG and renewable energies.
Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/en/current_issue.html