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| Efficiency and emissions remain core priorities as owner-operators work to improve performance, manage compliance and extend the life of existing assets. This topic covers heat rate improvements, combustion optimization, controls, aftermarket upgrades, emissions control systems, maintenance strategy and the operational tradeoffs that shape plant performance. For many facilities, incremental improvements still matter because they directly affect cost, output, compliance and competitiveness.
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Efficiency & Emissions Educational Opportunities
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Bayswater is a large coal-fired station that has spent the past five years becoming something it was never designed to be: a flexible, market-responsive asset in a grid increasingly shaped by solar an …
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Flexible coal operation starts in the mill, not the boiler. As renewable penetration forces coal units to cycle deeper and more frequently, pulverizer performance becomes a direct constraint on plant …
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With new combined-cycle lead times stretching to 2029 and beyond, the strategic value of optimizing existing gas turbine assets has never been more direct. This session presents an updated fleet-wide …Chairperson
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Steam boilers were designed for steady baseload operation. As grid conditions push thermal fleets toward more frequent starts, deeper turndowns and aggressive cycling, the operating envelope shifts we …
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Military installations operate under reliability requirements that most utilities and IPPs rarely face: uninterrupted power during grid outages, cyber events, and extreme weather, with no tolerance fo …
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The rapid growth of on-site and behind-the-meter generation at data centers is introducing permitting and emissions compliance challenges that many developers and equipment providers have not had to n …
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Co-locating prime power generation at a data center campus, whether natural gas turbines, reciprocating engines, or combined-cycle systems, converts a facility that was previously a minor emissions so …
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Grid operators are asking combined-cycle and simple-cycle gas turbines to turn down deeper and more frequently than their original designs anticipated. Emissions-compliant operation at lower loads is …
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Post-combustion carbon capture is increasingly relevant to utilities and IPPs managing emissions compliance on existing thermal assets, but the integration questions, energy demand, solvent performanc …
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The Centenario lithium mine project in the Argentine Andes required a 27 MW cogeneration plant to supply both electricity and high-quality heat at 4,000 metres above sea level. Supporting an energy-in …
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On-site generation at data center campuses is growing faster than the decarbonization frameworks designed to govern it. Diesel backup conflicts with emissions targets. Natural gas prime power triggers …
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As power and industrial operators face increasing pressure to decarbonize, many carbon capture systems today are still difficult to deploy in practice due to operational complexity, energy penalties, …
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Hyperscale data centers need power on 12 to 24-month timelines. Interconnection queues run five years or longer. Meanwhile, oil and gas producers across North America are managing stranded gas, flarin …
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A 2 x 250 MW lignite-fired plant in India increased its plant load factor from 50% to 65% through a focused O&M program targeting the highest-leverage reliability and performance gaps. The program cov …ChairpersonSpeakers
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Natural gas combined-cycle plants are attractive candidates for carbon capture, but their exhaust presents specific challenges: low CO₂ concentration relative to coal and large flue-gas volumes that i …
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Supercritical CO₂ power cycles have been in development for two decades. They are now approaching commercial deployment, and the applications relevant to the POWERGEN audience are specific: gas turbin …
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The U.S. has more than 134 GW of installed simple-cycle gas turbine capacity. Most of it was never paired with a steam bottoming cycle for straightforward reasons: high capital cost, large footprint, …
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Gas-side fouling deep within HRSG harp sections, including ferrous oxide scale, ammonium bisulfate deposits from SCR ammonia slip and insulation debris, accumulates on finned tube bundles where conven …
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