13/14 September 2017 Essen, Germany

The goal of the VGB CONGRESS 2017 with its new motto Generation in Competition is to discuss the joint action of renewable and conventional power generation within the rapid change of the energy markets in Germany and Europe. Political and overall topics will be discussed in the plenary session on the first day.

25/26 October 2017 in Koblenz, Germany

The conference is a forum for operators of energy utilities and industrial power plants. Operating experience will be discussed and technical developments will be represented in the field of power plant chemistry.

28 - 30 November 2017 in Essen, Germany

This training is addressed to all employees from the fields of chemistry, mechanical and process engineering, who are in charge in the operation, planning or servicing of water treatment plants for boiler feed water and steam.

• Nuclear power and nuclear power plant operation
• Cyber security in nuclear power plants and its portability
• Retrofitting a spent fuel pool spray system
• Nuclear power economics
• Operating experience with nuclear power plants 2016

and further news from industry, development and research

VGB-S-164-11-2016-08-EN-ebook

To detect incipient damage to generators in power plants, protective equipment is installed. For electrical protection, in 2012 VGB published recommendations in the VGB-Standard VGB-S-025 “Electrical Generating Unit Protection”. The VGBStandard in hand, VGB-S-164-11, shows the protective measures that can be taken when thermal limits are exceeded or leaks and other malfunctions occur. These protective measures relate to so-called thermal/mechanical generator protection and cover generators for thermal power plants, hydroelectric power plants and wind turbines.

VGB-S-832-00-2016-04-DE-EN-ebook

Documents should be quickly available for certain tasks. To achieve this, a designation of documents with identifying and classifying information is necessary. Essential parts of the designation of documents are statements about the object represented and the characteristic content of information.

VGB-TW103Ae-eBook

The report provides information about weak points of equipment and power plant systems. VGB is analysing the annual unavailability (UA analysis) in order to identify the root causes, i.e. those systems causing unavailability to be able to upgrade such weak equipment.

The Media Information for the technical journal "VGB PowerTech" and other event-publications of VGB are now available for download.

VGB-S-121-00-2016-04-EN-ebook

Monitoring, limiting and protection devices must satisfy stringent requirements in order to ensure safe and reliable operation of gas turbine units. The revisied VGB-Standard aims at considering the state-of-the-art and the current codes of practice and ISO and VDMA standards. This standard applies to stationary gas turbines (single-shaft and multi-shaft turbines) used to drive generators and other machinery.

VGB-S-041-00-2016-04-EN-ebook

Rather than sharing generally known theories and fundamentals on leadership behaviour, the VGB-Standard VGB-S041 is meant to serve as a basis for operator-specific requirements for leadership behaviour and focus content-wise on essential tasks of managers in day-to-day business.

The listed amendment sheets include all amendments regarding to the VGB-Standard. Its structure complies with the chapters of the VGB-Standard. It documents the amendments with naming the chapter number.