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.

24/25 September 2020 in Graz, Austria

The international event will bring together experts from leading operators, manufacturers and suppliers, authorities, scientists as well as related stakeholders to discuss important issues in the field of ecology and environment in hydropower with session on.

30 September/1 October 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.

28/29 October 2020 in Dresden, Germany

The meeting place of international power plant chemistry. We would be glad if you could make a note of the date of the VGB Conference Chemistry 2020 in your diary already today!

9 November 2020 in Copenhagen, Denmark

A tremendous increase in the use of biomass as a replacement fuel for coal for the production of heat and power causes the production also of huge quantities of BiomassAsh (BMA). The present-day situation is that this process has progressed far beyond the point where small quantities of BMA could just disappear.

23-25 November 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.

• VGB Congress 2019
• Sector Coupling - buzzword or future of the energy supply
• The project ALIGN-CCUS – A contribution to the evolutive transformation process of energy and raw material supply by recycling carbon
• Leakage detection in power-plants based on passive acoustic imagining
• 36C3 – more questions than answers

and further news from industry, development and research

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-002-03-2019-10-EN | Available as free of charge eBook

This VGB-Standard allows the user to make a technical and economic assessment of power plants. In addition, the effect of price effects and the legal requirements on the power plant operation can be analyzed using the VGB-Standard.

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-811-91-2019-02-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-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.