Congratulations to this year’s Paper of the Year Award Winners!
First Place Winners – Joel D. Heusinger, Woods & Aitken LLP Risk Limitation through Contracts, Insurance/Bonding, and Evaluation of Claims ( Track – Industry Trends – Competitive Power Generation)
First Place Winner – Anthony Licata and Terence Ake, Babcock Power Environmental Inc. -Circulating Dry Scrubbers Comply with the EPA Maximum Achievable Conrol Technology Limits (Track – Environmental Issues)
First Place Winner – Bernd von der Heide, Mehldau & Steinfath Umweltte – chnik GmbH – Advanced SNCR Technology for Power Plants. (Track – Fossil Technologies)
First Place Winner – Michael Ladwig, Sasha Savi, Karin Lindvall and Tilemachos Papadopoulos, Alstom – The Next Generation KA24/GT24 from Alstom, The Pioneer in Operational Flexibility (Track- Gas Turbine Technologies)
First Place Winner – Paul Steffes, P.E., Steffes Corporation – Grid-Interactive Electric Thermal Storage (GETS) Space and Water Heating (Track – Renewable Energy)
First Place Winner – Robert Leamy, Hydrocarbon Integrated Management – Avoiding Fukushima Syndrome ( Track – On -Site Power)
First Place Winner – John Rath, Jilin Zhang, Qingsheng Lin and Joseph Bianca, Riley Power Inc.Coal Pipe Coal Flow Distribution Control for Coal Pulverizer Systems (Track – Plant Performance)
Second Place Winner – Don Koza, Colleen Layman and Mark Boulden, Bechtel Power Corporation – Considerations for Cycling Duty of Coal-Fired Power Plants (Track – Industry Trends – Competitive Power Generation)
Second Place Winner – Douglas C. Timpe and James H. Singleton, Black & Veatch – Update on Section 316(b) Phase II Compliance Options at a Reference Plant (Track – Envrionmental Issues)
Second Place Winner - Un-Hak Nah, Seong Heon Yang, Hoon Shin and Joseph Kostoss, Doosan heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd. – Operational Reliability Improvement in a Korean Ultra Super Critical Power Plant Steam Turbine ( Track – Fossil Technologies)
Second Place Winner – Gary J. Reed, LOCK-N-STITCH Inc. – Repairing Cracked and Damaged Castings…Permanently ( Track Gas Turbine Technologies)
Second Place Winner – Bob Worobel and Mark Hammond, Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County; Jim Riley, Palm Beach Resouerce Recovery Corporation; Mike DePero and George Nikitenko, Babcock & Wilcos Power Generation Group, Inc.; Kelly Lyons and Paul Stockburger, KBR – Successful Modernization of the Solid Waste Authority’s (SWA) Palm Beach Waste to Energy Facility (PBREF 1) (Track – Renewable Energy)
Second Place Winner – Rafael Herzberg, Interact Ltda. – 1MW Peaking Power: Protection Against Interruptions and Hedging Against High Power Prices (Track -On-Site Power)
Second Place Winner – Bijan Hosseininejad, Tim Fuller and Eric Fuller, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc.; Alan Murkerson and Joe Krajna, Lakeland Electric, McIntosh Station; Harun Bilirgen, Lehigh University, Energy Research Center – Coal Flow Optimization with B&W PGG’s EvenFlow™ System (Track – Plant Performance)
Third Place Winner -Timothy M. Hillman, Black & Veatch – Scenario Planning: A Pathway to the Future ( Track -Industry Trends – Competitive Power Generation)
Third Place Winner - Anatoly Sobolevskiy, Ph.D., Siemens Energy, Inc. – Development of Novel Polyfunctional Emissions Reduction Catalytic System for Combined Cycle Power Plants (Track – Envrionmental Issues)
Third Place Winner – Ahsan Siddiqui and Prasad Koneru, KBR Inc.; Randall E. Rush, Southern Company – Overview of Scale and Engineering of the Kemper County IGCC Project Using Transport Integrated Gasification (TRIG™) (Track – Fossil Technologies)
Third Place Winner – Carlos Koeneke, Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc.; Junichiro Masada, Toshishige Ai and Susumu Wakazono, Gas Turbine Development Takasago Machinery Works; Takashi Kishine, Gas Turbine Application Engineering Power System Headquarters – Validation of New 1,600°C Turbine Inlet Temperature Large Frame Gas Turbine for High Combined Cycle Efficiency (Track – Gas Turbine Technologies)
Third Place Winner – Indra Kusuma, P.Eng, and Reid Boutot, CET, ABB Inc.- Optimized Pumped Storage Power Plant Controls using Real Time Models & Economic Dispatch Solver (Track – Renewable Energy)
Third Place Winner – Sandra Simmons and Rich Olivier, TurboCare, Inc.; Andy Change, ACA Services, Inc.; Norm Uchida, Hawaii Electric Light Company – Upgrade of an Existing Steam Turbine (Track – Plant Performance)
