Partnership to Advance Clean Energy – Deployment (PACE-D) Technical Assistance Program

AGENDA Advanced Technologies & Best Practices for Supercritical Thermal Power Plants

Date: November 21 - 22, 2013 Venue: Hotel Hyatt Regency, New Delhi

Day 1: November 21, 2013

9:00 am onwards Registration Inaugural Session

9:30 am - 11:00 am Lighting of the Lamp Mr. Arup Roy Choudhury, Chairman, Welcome Address NTPC Context Setting Ms. Neerja Mathur, CEA Chairman Keynote Address TBD, Ministry of Power John Beed, Mission Director, Special Address USAID/India Mr. Jyotiraditya Scindia, Minister of Inaugural Address Power* Launch of the Executive Summary of the Best Practices Report Jeremy Gustafson, Director – Clean Vote of Thanks Energy and Environment Office, USAID/India 11:00 am - 11:15 am Tea Break

Technical Session 1 Supercritical Power Plants - Evolution and Current Status 11:15 am - 1:00 pm Chair: Mr. A.K. Jha, Director-Technical, NTPC Dr. G. K. Burnard, Senior Energy Supercritical Coal-Fired Power Analyst, International Energy Agency, Generation: an IEA Perspective France Reliability of Supercritical Dr. J.P. Shingledecker, Senior Scientist, Power Plants – U.S. EPRI, U.S. Experience Startup and Shutdown of Mr. Vinay Nagpal, President, Global

Supercritical Power Plants Valve Solutions, U.S. NTPC Plan for Adoption of Mr. D.K.Dubey, General Manager,

Efficient Technologies (Engg), NTPC

Questions & Answers

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch

Technical Session 2 Supercritical Technology O&M Practices & Systems for Sustainable 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Improvement Chair: Mr. S.N. Ganguly, Executive Director, NTPC Oxygenated Boiler Water Dr. P.K.Jain, NETRA, Mr. P.P.Singh, Treatment – A Key to Success in NTPC-Sipat and Mr. A.K.Arora, Supercritical Boilers CenPEEP Combustion and Boiler Mr. Stephen Storm, President, Stephen Performance Optimization Best Storm Inc. U.S. Practices O&M Practices at American Mr. Warren Ashton, AEP Engineering Electric Power (AEP) Specialist (Retd.), U.S. 40+ Years of Operation Mr. Brian R. Weisker, Station Manager, Experience at Duke Energy Marshall Steam Station, Duke Energy, Marshal Supercritical Steam U.S. Station Questions & Answers 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Tea Break Technical Session 3 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm Supercritical Technology O&M Practices & Systems for Sustainable Improvement Chair: Dr Radha Krishnan, PACE-D TA Program Cleaner Fossil Technologies Consultant Boiler Reliability & Tube Failure Mr. Patrick Abbott, Principal, P&RO Reduction Strategies Solutions, U.S. Coal Blending Study of Indian Mr. Gregory Tanck, Performance & Coal Using VISTATM Model Optimization Engineer, Black & Veatch, U.S. Application of Advanced Mr. Ron Griebenow, Director of Energy Diagnostic Techniques for Plant Services, GP Strategies, Inc., U.S. Performance and Availability Improvement Questions & Answers

Day 2: November 22, 2013

Technical Session 4 9:30 am - 11:00 am Environment Management Chair: Dick Edwards, Officer-in-charge, PACE-D TA Program Duke Energy Cliffside Mr. Brian R. Weisker, Duke Energy, Supercritical Steam Station – U.S. Environmental Control and Management Overview R&M for upgrading 500MW sub- Mr. Sarajit Sen, MD, Doosan Power critical to super-critical Systems India Ltd. Heat Rejection Cycle Analysis: A Mr. Kenneth W. Hennon, Sr. Vice Means to Recover Lost President, Clean Air Engineering, U.S. Megawatts and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Questions & Answers 11:00 am -11:15 am Tea Break

Technical Session 5 11:15 am - 1:00 pm Advanced Supercritical & Ultra- Supercritical Plants Chair: Mr. Manjit Singh, Member – Thermal, CEA Status of Global Ultra- Mr. Ram Narula, President, Narula supercritical Power Plant Energy and Environment Consultants; Program Mr. Robert M. Purgert, President, Energy Industries of Ohio State-of-the-Art Ultra- Mr. John L. Marion, Director supercritical (USC) Boiler Technology and R&D, Alstom, U.S Technology and Readiness for Advanced USC Development Babcock and Wilcox Company Mr. Paul Weitzel, Technical Consultant Steam Generators for USC and Team Leader, B&W, U.S. (600C) and AUSC (760C) Steam Conditions Questions & Answers 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Technical Session 6 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Materials for Advanced Ultra-Supercritical Plants Chair: Mr. Robert Purgert, Director, Energy Industries of Ohio Advanced Materials for Mr. Alok Mathur, BHEL; Dr. T. Advanced Ultra-Supercritical Jayakumar, IGCAR Plants Material Technology to Enable Dr. J.P. Shingledecker, Senior Scientist, High-Efficiency Advanced Ultra- EPRI, U. S Supercritical Steam Power

Plants Questions & Answers

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Panel Discussion and Conclusion:

Future of Supercritical and Ultra Supercritical Technologies in India and Challenges to Overcome.

Chairperson: Mr S Padmanaban, Former Senior Energy Adviser, USAID Panelists: Dr. G.K. Burnard (IEA), Dr. John Shingledecker (EPRI), Dr. Jayakumar (IGCAR), ED-Engineering, NTPC, Dr. Radha Krishnan, PACE-D TA Program Cleaner Fossil Technologies Consultant

Tea to be served during the discussion.

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Valedictory Session (Coordinated by Ms. Monali Zeya Hazra)

 Mr. Jeremy Gustafson , Director Clean Energy & Environment Office, USAID/India  Mr. A.K.Gupta, ED – Engineering, NTPC  Ms. Jyoti Arora, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power