5/6 December 2019 in Berlin, Germany

For mercury removal the operators of coal-fired power plants have a great challenge to meet the new emission limit values, which will become mandatory in the next years. Therefore, VGB offers a platform for an international exchange of ideas and experience.

23/24 April 2020 in Graz, Austria

The 3^rd international VGB expert event will focus on providing a comprehensive overview of digitalization in hydropower dealing mainly with implemented innovative digital measures, products.

6/7 May 2020 in Dresden, Germany

The workshop covers a wide range of flue gas cleaning activities, especially with a view to the activities for meeting the future emission limits, which are defined in the BREF-LCP process.

12-14 May 2020 in Bremen, Germany

Every two years, VGB PowerTech organzises the “KELI” one of the leading expert conference in energy supply. Operators, planners, service providers and suppliers of all generation plant technologies as well as universities, insurers and authorities are addressed.

17/18 June 2020 in Cologne, Germany

The aim of this conference is to ensure the steam turbine operation in the future with high availability and good efficiencies with the help of the exchange of experience.

9/10 September 2020 in Essen, Germany

VGB will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding on 2020. The VGB Congress will take place on 9 and 10 September 2020 in the Grand Hall Zollverein in Essen, Germany.

• VGB Congress 2019
• Innovation in Power Generation
• Perspective development of electricity generation in Europe
• Transformation of the German energy system
• Hydropower
• AI diagnosis for maintenance teams

and further news from industry, development and research

B035-ebook

Power plants are not functioning to the fullest 100 % of the time. Maintenance and inspection of some components require them to be off-line in time, however, this can be planned such that customers continue receiving power from the electrical grid, steam or district heating from other plants. Unplanned outages due to failures or external conditions may cause surprises and can lead to situations in which the demand is not satisfied at short term at large costs.

VGB-TW 103Ve (2019)

Since 1970 VGB has been collecting data according to standardized uniform definitions and recording procedures. With the liberalization of the energy markets, the technical and economic assessment of power plants has gained more and more importance.

VGB-S-811-91-2019-02-DE-EN

The "KKS Pocketbook" (2nd revised and extende edition 2019) is an abridged version (extract) of the publication VGB-S-811-01-2018-01-EN “KKS – Identification System for Power Stations”. The handy 128-page brochure supports the decoding of KKS codes, one of the world's most widely used key systems for the designation of equipment and components in power generation.

VGB-S-131-00-2017-07-EN-ebook

This guideline is meant to provide a standardized basis for acceptance and operating tests of air-cooled water steam condensers. Its scope of application is limited to the testing of the condenser itself and the exhaust steam duct up to the terminal point of supply.

VGB-S-130-00-2017-07-EN-ebook

More than twenty years ago, in 1994, the first edition of this standard was published in response to the rapid technological development and the growing importance of condensers in plant construction.

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 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.