PAPERS OF THE YEAR AWARDS

Fossil Technologies Track

First

Long-Term Experiences and Large-Scale Application of CFB (CDS) FGD

Rudiger Baege, Markus Dickamp, Markus Feldkamp and Christian Moser, Enviroserv

Second

Experience with Co-firing Biomass in PC Boilers to Reduce CO2 Emissions

WR Livingston and KW Morris, Dooson Babcock Energy

Third

Enabling Carbon Capture at the Existing Intermittently Loaded Coal-Fired Power Plant

Michael Delallo, Vladimir Vaisman, Yixin Liu, and Yukiyo Matsuda, WorleyParsons Group

Industry Trends / Competitive Power Generation Track

First

Souther California Edison-- Clean Hydrogen Power Generation – Project Status & Technology Overview

Satish Gadde, Worley Parsons Group; Jenifer Hedrick and Ron Hoover, Southern California Edison; and George Booras and Ron Schoff, EPRI

Second

IMPACTS OF WIND GENERATION ON THERMAL UNIT OPERATION

Reigh Walling, Gary Jordan, GE Energy

Third

San Francisco Electric Reliability Program

Hans G. Kern, Industrial Construction Co.

Plant Performance Track

First

Motor Protection Retrofit: A Business Case

Kyle Craig,Ontario Power Generation; and Amy Sinclair, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

Second

Cathodic Protection for Power Plant Piping - Protecting People and the Environment

Ted Huck, MATCOR Inc.

Third

Innovative Control of Variable Speed Circulating Water Pumps for Once-through Cooling Saves Fish Minimizes Costs

Al Ferrer, VP Power Consulting, George Keller, Senior Consulting Engineer, Burns and Roe, David Perri, Director of Corporate Engineering, Barry Durham,Corporate Environmental Manager, Bohdan Dackow, Corporate I&C Engineer, USPowerGen.

Environmental Issues Track

First

Validation of Screening Tests for Choosing a Carbon for Mercury Reduction--Comparison to Full-Scale Test Results

Amanda Flynn and Paul Farber, Sargent & Lundy; Gerry Hoppr and John Klumpyan, NRG Energy; and Martin Dillon, ADA-ES

Second

Greenhouse Gas Legislation/Regulation Impacts on New and Existing Sources

Block Andrews, Burns & McDonnell

Third

SO3 Mitigation--Comparison of Sorbent Injection vs. Injection Combined with a Wet ESP

Robert E. Snyder, Ashley Krout, Albert Moretti, Donald Tonn and Anthony Silva, Babcock & Wilcox Co.

Gas Turbine Technologies Track

First

Xcel Energy Riverside Repowering Project

Paul Eiden, Timothy Rathsam and Dawn Buchel, Sargent & Lundy, L.L.C.; and Darin Schottler, Xcel Energy

Second

SGT6-5000F(4) Gas Turbine Product Update

Francisco Dovali-Solis and Joshua D. Kovac, Siemens Energy Corp.

Third

Afton Combined Cycle with Hybrid Cooling

Jack Groves (POWER Engineers), Todd Krankkala (POWER Engineers), Greg Nugent (Public Service Co. of New Mexico)

Renewable Energy Track

First

Integrating Steam Generation from Concentrating Solar Thermal Collectors to Displace Duct Burner Fuel in Combined Cycle Power Plants

Andrew McMahan, SkyFuel; Nick Zervos, Shaw Power Group

Second

Waste Heat Power Generation Hybrid Application

Mario Romero, WOW Energy; Septimus van der Linden, Brulin Associates

Third

Heat Recovery from Tail Gas Incinerator to Generate Power

Tarek Tawfik, AMEC Power & Process Americas

On-Site Power Track

First

Overview of Current Microturbine Technology

Stephen Gillette, VP Business Development, Capstone Turbine Corp.