Fixing HRSGs since 1993!

Hands-on demo of HRSG welding
William Newell, Euroweld, LTD

Hands-on Demo of Detecting both under-insulation and flow-accelerated corrosion without insulation removal
Doug Hilleman & Ryan Moore,
Intertek Engineering Consulting

Welcome & State of the Combined-Cycle Industry
Mark Axford, Axford Consulting

Minimize Project Delays in Combined-Cycle Plants
Todd Young, HDR, Inc.

Reliably operating baseload-designed HRSGs in the cycling mode
Tham Chelvan, Siemens

Case Studies of Major Losses at Combined-Cycle Plants
Robert Sansone, The Power Gen & Construction

Next-Generation, Fast-start HRSGs
Marlon Farquharson, Siemens Heat Transfer Tech

Continuous Performance Optimization – add business value through enhanced flexibility and thermal performance
Tham Chelvan, Siemens

Dye Penetrant Testing of HRSG Components
Joe Frey, Joe W. Frey & Associates

Detecting Flame Lick with Infrared Technology
Roberto Roubicek, SEI

LP economizer and LP evaporator replacements at multiple plants in Florida
Maxwell Begeman, NextEra Energy

Code Required Welding Technique Eliminates Need for PWHT
William Newell, Euroweld, LTD

Managing the Formation and Release of Spinel Deposits from Flexible Operation
Doug Hilleman, Intertek Engineering Consulting

Case Studies on Operating HRSGs with elevated Feedwater pH
Colleen Scholl, HDR, Inc.

NERC-PRC 27 Compliance
Scott Dude, Dude Electrical Testing

Updates to piping codes
Joe Frey, Joe Frey & Associates

Practical Guide to Feeding Boiler Chemistries
Mark Scholl, Whitewater Cogen and
Kevin Boudreaux, ChemTreat

Pipe Hangers: Inspecting, Repairing & Replacing
Joe Frey, Joe Frey & Associates

HRSG User’s Group Open Discussion
Moderators: Joe Frey, Robert Sansone,
Colleen Scholl

Steam Chemistry Basics
By David Daniels, M & M Engineering Associates

HRSG Design 101
By Amy Sieben, ALS Consulting

HP Valves and Attemporators
By Doug Hilleman, Intertek

Epidemic in Combined-cycle Project Delays
By Robert Sansone, The Power Gen & Construction Practice, LLC

Finding & Retaining Qualified Craft-Labor in the Workforce 
Panel-discussion

Commissioning Practices for New Combined-cycle Projects 
By Colleen Layman, HDR, Inc

Best Practices for HRSG Tube Sampling, Testing, and Evaluating Results
By Bob Bartholomew, Sheppard T. Powell Associates LLC

SCR Catalyst- Regeneration or Replacement
By Bill Gretta, Concord Management Services, Inc

Superheater Problems and Fixes.  
By Dave Buzza, AEP

Fitness for Service of High-energy Piping
By Joe Frey, Stress Engineering Services

Overhauling Severe-service Valves
By Kim Bezzant, Applus RTD and Patrick Brennan, Power Plant Services

Overhauling Boiler Feedwater Pumps
By Jack Geraci and Bob Morgenstern, Pro Pump Services

Contracting Trends & The Value added of the Owners Engineer – Oversight and Protection of the Owner’s interests
By Ron Pacitti, VP Business Development Energy, Altran

“The Risk Is Never Zero” risk issues that need to be considered when designing and building a power project. 
By Robert Sansone, President The Power Gen & Construction Practice

Estimating and Scheduling to ensure success
By Mark Sanders –VP Altran Energy

Combined-cycle/cogen plants face their mid-life crisis—Modernizing versus shutting down

Film-forming amines cut corrosion rates in HRSGs
By Gregory Boileau and Tony Rossi, GE Power & Water

Combined-cycle emissions during transient ops
By Gordon Smith, GE Energy

Not your grandfather’s Oldsmobile: Damage mechanisms in HRSGs
By David Daniels, M & M Engineering Associates, Inc.

The practical environmentalist:  Operation & maintenance of selective catalytic reduction systems
By Jeff Bause, Groome Industrial Service Group

Storm tracker forecasts duct-burner damage: Operation and maintenance of duct burners
By Marty Fry, John Zink Hamworthy Combustion

Preventing gas-side corrosion in HRSGs
By Bryan Craig, HRST, Inc

They’re attemperators, not desuperheaters
By Amy Sieben, ALS Consulting, LLC

HRSG Lessons from the Grateful Dead:  Startup procedures
By Gordon Smith, GE Power & Water

Death by spin-cooling (The do’s and don’ts of HRSG layup) 
Presented by Bryan Craig, HRST, Inc

Breakthrough research on hard-facing disbonding
Presented by Daniel Purdy, EPRI

Get souped up for cycling (Modifying a baseload plant for cycling ops)
Presented by Amy Sieben, ALS Consulting, LLC

Boiler construction alloys—Classification based on interactions with the boiler environment
By John Arnold, Niantic Bay Engineering, LLC 

Metal melting, forming, welding, and heat treatment—their effects on the steel microstructure
By Marshal Clark, Investigative Engineering Corp

Failure analysis of HRSG tubes- Understanding the latest metallurgy
Full-day workshop

High Risks of Low-Load Operation
By Pete Matukonis, Alstom Power, Inc

Retrofitting the Economizer at an F-Class Plant
By Amy Sieben, ALS Consulting, LLC

Overhauling Attemporators
By Jorgen Gertz, Puffer-Sweiven

The Curious Case of Iron-Oxide Damage at Port Washington
By Dawn Lemke, WE Energies

Performance Testing Combined Cycles
By Rodger Anderson, DRS-Power Technology Inc

Stopping the Crisis of Construction-Contract Fraud
By Bob Sansone, Power Generation & Construction Practice, LLC

Writing Specifications for New Equipment
By Neal Holden, Babcock Power, Inc

Managing the Start-Up Process
By Bob Sansone, Power Generation & Construction Practice, LLC

Cleaning Back-End Tubes with dry-Ice blast at Bogue Power
By Ruben Thomas, Bogue Power 

Fighting the P-91 Wars in an Operating Combined-Cycle Fleet
By Nancy Armstrong, NAES Corp

The core, or ‘must-have’ NDE tools for HRSGs
By Joe Frey, Stress Engineering Services, Inc

New, Emerging NDE Tools for HRSGs
By Stan Walker, EPRI

Don’t Forget the Balance-of-Plant
By Bob Sansone, Power Generation & Construction Practice, LLC

Remaining Life Assessment of HRSGs
By Derrick Rogers, Stress Engineering Services

Do’s and Don’ts of Heat-Treating P91
By Gary Lewis, Superheat FGH

Best-Practice S/U, S/D Procedures for Cycling Plants
By Gary Norman, Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc