POWER-GEN International

For anyone who hasn’t attended POWER-GEN International and wonders what goes on, here’s a quick wrap-up of events and highlights from the 2011 event. Get comfortable, this could take a while.

–Competitive Power College pre-conference workshops

–Technical tours of Hoover Dam, Walter M. Higgins Generating Station and Goodsprings

Energy Recovery Station, and Harry Allen Generating Station

–Golf tournament at Desert Pines Golf Course

–Power Engineering Annual Gala Reception and Dinner

–Project of the Year Awards

–Keynote address with David Walsh, Mitsubishi Power Systems America; Donald Karner,

ECOtality NA; Elmo Collins, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

–12 conference tracks that were better attended than any in the past and for which attendees

received a certificate for 10 professional development hours

–Mega sessions covered grid integration, large frame gas turbines, and panel discussion about

the impact of China and India on global power industry

–1,200 companies showcased new products/services on the industry’s largest exhibition floor

–Co-located with two other events: NUCLEAR POWER and PGI Financial Forum

When it comes time to register for PGI 2012, remember that you get all this and more for your registration fee. Will we see you in Orlando, Dec 11-13? http://www.power-gen.com/index.html

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)