1000 hrs – 1100 hrs           Inaugural Session

• Welcome Address by Shri C.V.J.Varma, President CPU
• Greetings from Principal Sponsor, Shri Arvind Singhal, Managing Director, Hagglunds Drives (India) Pvt. Ltd.
• Presidential address by Shri T. Sankaralingam, CMD, NTPC Ltd
• Address by Guest of Honour- Shri H.L.Bajaj, Member (Technical),
• Appellate Tribunal for Electricity
• Inaugural Address by Chief Guest, Shri Anil Razdan, Secretary (Power)
• Vote of Thanks

1100 hrs – 1130 hrs           Tea & Networking Break

1130 hrs – 1300 hrs           Technical Session 1 

Thermal Energy Availability Scenario and Electric Power Development

Session Chairman:            P Abraham, Former Secretary, Power

Keynote Presentations

• India’s planning for Power for All by 2012

V.P. Joy, Joint Secretary (Th, IPP, FS), MOP 

• Advanced pulverized coal fired power plants- Present status and future prospects

K.V. Muthukrishnan, ED, PMG & TS, BHEL 

• Thermal Power Capacity Addition- Goals and Challenges

V Sethuraman, Director (Power), Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd. 

• Technology up gradation for more efficient thermal generation

U.S Bapat, Sr. GM, Trombay Generating Station, Tata Power Company 

• Variable Speed Direct Hydraulic Drive Applications & its recent technical developments in Bulk Material Handling

Shantanu Banerjee, Business Area Manager & Kaushik Banerjee, Sales Manager, Hagglunds Drives (India) Pvt. Ltd. 

• Energy Availability Scenario, Energy Exchange, Power Trading.

Rajesh Kumar Mediratta, Vice President, MCX/ India Energy Exchange 

• Thermal Power Plant Performance Improvement using Quality Initiatives

S.N. Tripathi, Sr. Supdt.(EEMG),S. Banerjee, Sr. Supdt.(Opn.), & Mohit Yadav, Engineer (Opn.),NTPC Ltd. Vidhyachal 

Q & A 

1310 hrs – 1350 hrs           Lunch

1350 hrs – 1525 hrs           Technical Session 2

Technologies for Power Generation and Sustainable Energy Availability, Fuels for Thermal Power Development in India & Water Chemistry for Power Plant

Session Chairman: S. Padmanaban, Dy. Director & Senior Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development

Keynote Presentations 

• Technologies for Power Generation and Sustainable Energy Availability: World Standards in Indian Thermal Power plants

S. Padmanaban, Dy. Director & Senior Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development 

• Blending of Imported Coal with Indian Coals and its associated effects on boiler design and operation

V.T. Sathyanathan, GM (Quality) BHEL Tiruchirappali 

• Logistics Challenges in handling Power Plants

Dhruv K. Kotak, Director & Janesh Gulati, Sr Vice President, J.M.Baxi & Co 

• Cooling water treatment in Power Plant- Recent Trend & Case Study

S.M.Mahadik, ED, Chembond Drewtreat Ltd 

• Water Chemistry in Power Plant

S.K. Sharma, Dy. GM (Chemistry), National Capital Power Station-Dadri 

• Residual Life Assessment and Renovation & Modernization of Steam Turbines

Amitabh Srivastava, SDGM (STE), S.J. Ghosh, SDGM (MRL), BHEL, Haridwar & R.K. Anand, DGM (R&M), BHEL, Noida 

Q & A 

1525 hrs – 1550 hrs           TEA

1550 hrs – 1750 hrs           Technical Session 3

Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle System (IGCC) and Combined Cycle Technology , Design Development of Supercritical & Ultra Supercritical Power Plants, Environmental and Thermal Power Generation , Clean Coal /Lignite based Thermal Generation, Operation and Maintenance Philosophy to Improve Availability & Logistics Challenges

Session Chairman: G.S Bindra, GM, BHEL

Keynote Presentations 

• Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle System (IGCC) and Combined Cycle Technology

G. S. Bindra, General Manager, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd 

• Design Development of Supercritical & Ultra Supercritical Power Plants

C.Jaidevan, GM, BHEL High Pressure Boiler Plant and Seamless Steel, Tube Plant, Tiruchirappalli 

• Environmental and Thermal Power Generation

A.K. Gupta, GM (PCRI C &PR), BHEL 

• Operations and Maintenance of DTPS using washed coal

Prasad Rao, Addl. Vice President, DTPS, Reliance Energy 

• Grid Interactive Solar Photovoltaic Power development for non conventional Energy

B. Bandyopadyay, Advisor, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy 

• Guidelines for Boiler Design with imported and indigenous coal for power generation

Gopal P. Sinha, Director, CMERI 

• Computational Fluid Dynamics, Simulation of Combustion Processes.

Dr N Seshadri, President, CD-Adapco India Private Limited 

Paper

• Residual Life Assessment and Life Extension Programme in Power Boilers of CAPTIVE POWER PLANT (120 mw x8) of NALCO:

R.S. Das, Chief Manager (Mech.) Area in Charge, Boiler Maint. CPP, NALCO 

• Operation and Maintenance Philosophy to Improve Availability of Thermal Power Plants:

S. Surya Narayan, Executive Engineer (Mechanical), KPCL 

Q & A

0930 hrs – 1130 hrs           Technical Session 4

Technology Development in Operation and Maintenance of Thermal Plants & Introduction of I T in O & M- Turbine and Generator, Boiler and its auxiliary and information Technology , Residual Life Assessment, Uprating

• Session Co-Chairman: Chandan Chowdhury, CEO, IFS Solutions India
• Co-Chairman: Dev Raj, GM (TS), BHEL

Keynote Presentations 

• Improving the Availability of Electricity through better techniques of Predictive/ Preventive Maintenance & Modernization of Thermal Power Plants

Dev Raj , GM (TS) BHEL 

• ERP Solutions for Power Generation

Chandan Chowdhury, CEO, IFS Solutions India 

• Technology Development and application of IT in power Generation

P.K. Basu, Technical Director, Crescent Power Limited 

• Residual Life Assessment, Uprating Renovation and Modernization of Old Power Plants

C. Subramaniam, Addl. GM (Operation Services R&M) , NTPC Limited 

• An Integrated Approach of Maintenance Planning and its importance in Thermal Power Plant:

U.C.Jain, Addl. Chief Engineer, Gujrat State Electricity Corporation Limited 

• Uprating & R&M of Old Power Plants

P.C. Bhavnani, AGM, BHEL, Haridwar

• Unique Wear Solutions Technology - Through Infiltration Brazing for the Power Generation Industry

M. Shanmuganathan, Application & Sales Manager, Kennametal India 

• Shroudless lining in HRSG by Pyrobloc Module

T K Haldar, AGM- Sales, Murugappa Morgan Thermal Ceramics Limited 

Paper

• Renovation & Modernization and Life Extension of Thermal Power Plants

Chinmoy Mohanty , DM, Lahmeyer International Pvt. Ltd. & Siddarth Dutta, Turbo machines Group, Alstom Projects India Ltd. 

Q & A

1130 hrs – 1150 hrs           Tea & Networking Break   

1150 hrs – 1330 hrs           Technical Session 5

Thermal Power Generation -Environment Management, Installation of Pollution Abatement Technologies, Options to contain eco damages risk in development of thermal power plants , Disposal of Ash and Emission Control , Regulations to Reduce Pollution Emissions, CDM, Carbon trading and carbon sequestration

Session Chairman:            J. Ganesh, Director of Indian Operations, Kmpt Process technology

Keynote Presentations 

• Krauss-Maffei FGD Centrifuges

Bernhard Sojer, Proj. & Sales Manager, Kmpt AG 

• CDM, Carbon trading and Carbon sequestration

Dipankar Ghosh, Associate Director, Ernst & Young 

• CDM, Carbon trading and Carbon sequestration

Swapan Mehra, Business Development Manager, Eco Securities 

• ESP & Disposal of Ash and Emission Control by using coal with not more than 34% ash

S.C. Chadha, Chief Engineer (TCD), Central Electricity Authority 

• Fly Ash: An Environment Saviour and not a Pollutant

Vimal Kumar, Advisor (Fly Ash), Fly Ash Mission 

• Variable Speed Direct Hydraulic Drive Applications Presentation

Shantanu Banerjee, Business Area Manager & Kaushik Banerjee, Sales Manager, Hagglunds Drives (India) Pvt. Ltd. 

Paper 

• Thermodynamic analysis of coal-based thermal power plants with CO2 capture

Sujit Karmakar, Suresh MVJJ, Ajit Kumar Kolar, IIT Madras 

• Zero Discharge & Legislation Pertaining to Ash utilization

G.P. Saxena, Sr. Manager (Envt. Mgmt.), NTPC Limited 

Q & A

1320 hrs – 1400 hrs           Lunch

1400 hrs – 1550 hrs           Technical Session 6

Economics and Finances - Project Financing/Proper Techno-economic Appraisal, Development of a Multi Year Tariff (MYT) Frame Work, Arbitration on any issues relating to power supply disputes (National & International)

Session Chairman: Sunil Verma, Member (E&C), CEA

Keynote Presentations 

• Project Financing /Proper Techno-Economic Appraisal

Sunil Verma, Member (E & C), CEA 

• Development of a Multi Year Tariff (MYT) Frame Work

Jagdish Sagar, Former Chairman, Delhi Vidyut Board 

• Financing and Availability of Funds

Mukul Modi, VP - PA & SF, SBI Capital Markets Limited 

• Regulatory & Competitive Issues

Amit Kapur, Partner, J.Sagar Associates 

• Arbitration- Alternate Dispute Resolution

R.C. Khera, Ex. Chief Engineer, CEA 

• Achieving Fiscal Advantage for an Efficient Energy Chain

Gokul Chaudhri, Partner and Leader & Mr. Sujit Ghosh, ED, BMR & Associates 

• Legal & Regulatory Issues

Prabjot Singh Bhullar, Partner, Kochhar & Company 

Q & A

1550 hrs – 1610 hrs           Tea & Networking Break

1610 hrs – 1750 hrs           Technical Session 7 

Nuclear Power Development - Challenge to Climate Change, Role of Nuclear Power as the Future Source of Energy for the Growing Power Demand, Meeting the challenges of nuclear renaissance worldwide, Nuclear Power in Canada: Current Status and Future Prospects, The Role of Nuclear Power & Public Awareness Program for Nuclear Power

• Session Co-chairman: Takuya Hattori, President, Japan Atomic Industrial Forum Inc.
• Co-chairman: Luc Jacquet, EDF Regional Director, EDF

Keynote Presentations 

• Nuclear Power--- Challenge to Climate Change

Takuya Hattori, President, Japan Atomic Industrial Forum Inc 

• Role of Nuclear Power as the Future Source of Energy for the Growing Power Demand

Luc Jacquet, EDF Regional Director, EDF 

• Role of Nuclear Power as the Future Source of Energy for the Growing Power Demand

Rajendra Shrivastava, Former Country Head, India of EDF of France 

• Meeting the challenges of nuclear renaissance worldwide

Paul Felten, Sr. Vice President, AREVA NP, France & Sunita Kumar, Director, Nuclear energy affairs, AREVA NC 

Paper

• Seismic design of Nuclear Power Plants in India

A.G. Chhatre, Chief Engineer (Reactor Component), NPCIL 

• Nuclear Power in Canada: Current Status and Future Prospects

Basma A. Shalaby, Chief Engineer, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited 

• The Role of Nuclear Power

U. Ramamurthy, Station Director, & Anil Kumar, Scientific Officer H, Tarapur Atomic Power Station 

• Role of Nuclear Power in Indian Power System

D.K. Goyal, Station Director & G.K.Jha, Head, Station-Planning Department, Narora Atomic Power Station 

• Public Awareness Program for Nuclear Power

R.R.Kakde, CE (Public Awareness), Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited 

Q & A & Close