12/13 January 2021, Web Conference

Atmospheric icing has a significant impact on the development and the operation of wind turbines. Ice on the rotor blades disturbs the aerodynamics and thus causes production losses and increases noise emissions. Moreover, the additional ice loads may lead to extreme loads and increased fatigue.

3/4 March 2021 in Karlsruhe, Germany

This event is addressed to all experts of the conventional and nuclear division, to the experts of maintenance in power plants and service companies and to the independent inspectors and deputies of governments, who are concerned with new developments in the divisions maintenance, inspection and repair.

17/18 March 2021 in Potsdam, Germany

In the context of the energy transition in a short period of time, the changing requirements in electricity and heat market and the public gas transport network require the timely adjustment of operational and plant engineering concepts for economical, safe and environmentally operation of gas turbines.

• Power plant by-products
• Global aspects on coal combustion products
• Developments in CCP management in Europe
• Implementation of Basic Requirement 3 in harmonized product standards
• Wood fly ash as cement replacement

and further news from industry, development and research

TW103Ve

The Technical-scientific Report Availability of thermal power plants for the period 2010 to 2019 is available. The current report provides performance indicators for 659 power plant units plus 183 machine sets of storage and pump storage hydro power plants.

VGB-S-002-01-2019-05-EN | Available as free of charge eBook

Apart from the familiar content relating to structural terms in the industry, power plant, grid and integrated supply system terms, energy and capacity terms and terms from the stock exchanges and trading markets now also newer terms from the immigrant energy transition and the global initiative to phase out fossil energy sources.

VGB-S-044-00-2019-05-EN

This VGB-Standard is applicable to structural works in new-build, existing industrial facilities and power plants. Its focus is primarily on structural engineering systems which ensure load-carrying capability, serviceability and durability.

VGB-S-610-00-2019-10-EN

VGB Standard on the Structural Design, Calculation, Engineering and Construction of Cooling Towers.

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-S-811-91-2020-09-DE-EN

The "KKS Pocketbook" (3nd revised and extende edition 2020) is an abridged version (extract) of the publication VGB-S-811-91-2020-09-DE-EN “KKS – Identification System for Power Stations”. The handy 148-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-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.