Retrofitting Coal Fired Power Plants: Experience From the Field

July 27-28, 2006 - The Stanley Hotel - Estes Park, CO
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Overview:

Educating new and existing power plant management and personnel is critical. With more prohibitive emissions policy slated to take effect at the end of the decade now is the time to begin training your staff and planning your emissions control projects. Come hear first hand about efficient, cost effective and profitable retrofit projects that have been completed, are in progress and about the best available technology and practices. Hear from utilities that have realized that even with significant capital investment to meet emissions standards, coal-fired generation is still the lower cost alternative.

  • Hear about the Clean Air Interstate Rule and it?s impact on utility energy producers

  • Learn about ?best available retrofit technology?

  • Learn different ways to control NOx, Sulfur, Particulates and Mercury

  • Hear how to keep older coal-fired power plants operating for low cost electricity production

  • Hear how to meet increasing demand for electricity with your existing assets

  • Learn how to minimize the impact of a retrofit project on your facility?s power production

Meeting current regulations and being proactive in your plant upgrade project provides your best chance in staying ahead of regulatory matters, avoiding costly legal battles and maintaining a positive public image. There are indirect financial and economic factors to consider such as emissions credits that have nearly doubled in price over the last few years and credits for carbon emissions that will likely enter that market soon. This conference will outline the most efficient project planning, implementation and execution processes and, best available technology to address your plant upgrade needs.

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Who Should Attend:

The conference will outline the current state of the industry and regulatory climate. Attendees will learn about strategic planning in support of financing the project and managing the outage. You will gain knowledge of how to successfully assess your upgrade needs. And, finally how to save money by doing it right the first time illustrated by experiences in planning, implementation, and execution of successful projects. A variety of stakeholders from the energy industry will benefit from attending this conference.

  • New Plant Engineers

  • Plant Managers

  • Plant Personnel

  • Investors

  • Company Shareholders

  • Executive Management facing the decision to upgrade or build new

  • Manufacturers of Coal Plants and Coal Plant Equipment

  • Directors of Environmental Policy or Strategy

  • Risk Assessment Managers and Personnel

  • Engineers

  • Anyone whose livelihood depends on coal combustion

Topics Include:

  • The Case: Growing Consumer Demand For Electricity Meets Increasingly Strict Air Quality Regulations

  • PWU?s ?Better Plan? Pro-Clean-Coal Campaign: ?Why? and ?How?

  • Programmatic Approach to Environmental Compliance Implementation

  • Pollution Control Technology

  • Using Flow Modeling to Minimize the Cost of Pollution Control Equipment

  • Innovations In New Emissions Projects

  • NRG to Handle Brownfield Redevelopment via IGCC Technology

  • Unique Shared Baghouse At Mirant?s Dickerson Station Provides Innovative Solution For Particulate Emissions Control

  • Non-Emissions Specific Retrofits

  • Emissions Management (and other benefits) Through Automated Optimization and Novel Low-Cost Reduction Technologies

  • Coal Pre-Ignition Detection Systems For Lignite, Sub-Bituminous, Bituminous Coal Users

  • Projects that Keep Paying You!

  • Late Breaking Regulatory Update

Speakers Include:

  • Rich Abrahms, Director, Babcock Environmental Power

  • Bill Fox, Director, Engineering & Construction Services, NRG Energy, Inc

  • Bob Head, Operations Superintendent, Colorado Springs Utilities Martin Drake Plant

  • Rich Hovan, Forney Corporation

  • John Huggins, General Manager, Environmental Program Strategic Planning, Southern Company

  • Greg Kindt P.E., Engineer's Project Manager Hardin Generating Station, UniField Engineering, Inc

  • Gary Klein, Plant Manager, Colorado Springs Utilities Martin Drake Plant

  • Frank Landis, EPC Technical Services Manager, Colorado Energy Management

  • Jason Makansi, President, Pearl Street, Inc.

  • Bob Menard, President?s Office, Ontario Power Workers? Union

  • Amish Thaker, Fluent Technologies

  • William White, Project Engineer, Mirant Dickerson Generating Plant

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