TUESDAY 2 NOVEMBER

09:00 – 10:30 Joint Opening Keynote Session

Chair: Nigel Blackaby, Director of Conferences, PennWell Corporation, UK

Keynote Speakers:
*Lim Hng Kiang,  Minister for Trade and Industry, Singapore
John Ng, Chief Executive Officer, PowerSeraya, Singapore

10:30 – 11:00 Networking Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Session 1: Fuel Issues - Panel Discussion
This session focuses on the impact of China & India on the power industry’s fuel supply, fuel cost, and environmental impacts of fuel use in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as on general fuel issues on a regional and worldwide scope.

Moderator: Mark Hutchinson, Senior Director, IHS CERA, Singapore

Presentations:

Peak oil could mean peak demand instead of supply
Torbjorn Kjus, Oil Analyst, DnB NOR Markets, Norway

Panellists:
- Torbjorn Kjus, Oil Analyst, DnB NOR Markets, Norway
- Neil McGregor, Executive Director, SLNG, Singapore
- *John Topper, Managing Director, IAE Clean Coal Centre, UK
- *Dr. Farzam Kamalabadi, President & Chairman of the Board, Future Trends International, P.R. China
- *Representative from the EMA, Singapore

12:30 – 14:00 Delegate Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Session 2: Emissions Control I
First of two successive sessions on emissions control focusing on the power industry’s needs and solutions for stricter emission caps of CO₂ and beyond.

Chair: Rodney Stevens, Director Southeast Asia, Burns & McDonnell International, Malaysia

Bag house optimisation - a guideline how to identify and overcome performance limitations
Georg Rathwallner, Application Engineer, Evonik Fibres GmbH, Austria

World first 3-in-1 solution for CO₂, NO_X and SO₂ gases emission abatement and reduction technology
Hwee Hong Chew, Managing Director and Founder, Ecospec Global Technology Pte Ltd, Singapore

Alstom sea water FGD & fabric filter technology
Carsten Tjelder, Head of Projects, Alstom, P.R. China

Decentralized energy emissions from Asia – Ex: China and Thailand need for more power – supplied by decentralized/renewable energy
Sridhar Samudrala, Director – Asia, World Alliance for Decentralized Energy, USA 


15:30 – 16:00 Networking Coffee Break
 

16:00 - 17:30 Session 3: Emissions Control II
Second of two successive sessions on emissions control focusing on the power industry’s needs and solutions for stricter emission caps of CO₂ and beyond.

Chair: Sridhar Samudrala, Director – Asia, World Alliance for Decentralized Energy, India

Alstom’s innovative solution to environmental management - advanced process control for air pollution control (APC2 TM)
Stephen Francis, Product Engineering Manager, Alstom Power Inc., USA

Software for inexpensive on-line monitoring of efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions monitoring in coal-fired units
Sastry Munukutla, Professor, Mech. Eng., Tenn. Tech. University, USA

Minimizing the costs and effects of emission control devices
Jay Warner, Engineering Manager, Universal Emission Technologies, USA
Co-Author: Cary Bremigan, VP - Engineering, Universal, USA

Coal fired unit enhancements at Lamma Power Station for today’s emission, efficiency, safety and fuel flexibility
David Pichora, Director Boiler Products China, Alstom Power, Hong Kong S.A.R.
Co-Author: W.H. Leung, Chief Maintenance Engineer, Hong Kong Electric, Hong Kong S.A.R. 

WEDNESDAY 3 NOVEMBER

09:00 - 10:30 Session 4: Increasing Influence of Regional Players - Panel Discussion
This session focuses on the external impact of China & India on the Asian power markets, but also incorporates the impact of emerging investment destinations in South East Asia, such as Philippines plus Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia on overall regional market development.

Moderator: Daniel Liew, Asia Managing Partner, SJ Berwin LLP, Hong Kong S.A.R.

Panelists:
- Sundara Kavidass, Vice President / Corporate Engineering Services, Adani Power Limited, India
- Colin Tam, Chief Executive Officer of AEI Asia Ltd, Founder and Chairman of IPPF, Hong Kong S.A.R.
- Roger Goh, Executive Director, Golden Concord Energy, Singapore
- Representative from SinoHydro 
- *Wang Shuai Ting, President  & CEO, China Resources Power, P.R. China
- *Representative from IFC


10:30 – 11:00 Networking Coffee Break
 

11:00 - 12:30 Session 5: Fuel Mix Choices
Fuel flexibility is an increasingly important feature of efficient plant operation and some of the latest technologies are revealed in this session.

Chair: Markus Lorenzini, Vice President Product GT Sales – Europe, Africa, Asia – Pacific, Siemens AG – Energy, Fossil Power Generation Divison, Germany

Expanding fuel flexibility in aeroderivative gas turbines
James DiCampli, Engineer, GE, USA
Co-Author: Joe Schornick, Principal Engineer, GE, USA 

Siemens gas turbines with advanced fuel flexibility for Asia
Heinrich Hermsmeyer, Head of Gas Turbine Product Line Engineering SynGas/LowBTU, Siemens AG, Germany
Co-Authors: Axel Schaberg, Head of Frame Engineering SGT5- 4000F; Christoph Kortschik, Head of Product Definition SGT5- 4000F; Dirk Haensel, Project Manager - Siemens AG, Germany

Superior fuel flexibility for today’s and future market requirements
Matthias Hiddemann, Product Specialist, Alstom Power, Switzerland
Co-Authors: Douglas Pennell, Gas Turbines Principal Engineer; Peter Flohr, Director Combustor - Alstom Power, Switzerland 

Optimal fuel flexibility with dual-fuel combustion engines
Mikael Windeskog, General Manager Gas Plants, Wärtsilä Finland Oy, Power Plants, Finland


12:30 – 14:00 Delegate Lunch 
 

14:00 - 15:30 Session 6: Carbon Capture
Governments around the world are relying on CCS to tackle climate goals. This session looks at some of the routes to achieving effective carbon capture and the implications of this.

Chair: Samuel Tam, Division Director, US Department of Energy, USA

Post-combustion carbon capture: from pilot to demonstration
Sylvia Ohresser, Sales Manager CCS, Siemens AG, Germany

Scale-up and operational flexibility for clean coal technology carbon capture systems
Kevin McCauley, Dir. Adv Tech Dev Asia, Babcock & Wilcox, USA

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) – experience gained from the UK CCS competition
Grant Spence, Senior Principal Engineer, Mott MacDonald, UK

Carbon Capture and Storage: being prepared for the opportunity
Mitesh Patel, Head of Consulting, Power, WorleyParsons Pte Ltd, Singapore


15:30 – 16:00 Networking Coffee Break
 

16:00 - 17:30 Session 7: Smart Grid & Energy Efficiency
Aspects of the Smart Grid - this session will focus on energy efficiency gains through reduction of line losses and advanced dispatch and load management.

Chair: Normen Kegler, Council Chairman, IPPF, Hong Kong S.A.R.

Ask not what the Smart Grid can do for EVs; ask what EVs can do for your Smart Grid
Hugh McDermott, Global Utility Alliances, Better Place, USA

Energy efficiency – the other alternative fuel
Stefan Hatt, Group Vice President, ABB, Switzerland
Co-Author: Werner Janik, Director, ABB, Germany

The impact and countermeasure for peak load power plant in Smart Grid age in Korea
Seong-Woo Jeong, General Manager, KOSPO, South Korea

Optimization of generation in the Smart Grid environment: flexible operation
Murray Champion, Regional Director, Power Automation & Control, Alstom, Australia

THURSDAY 4 NOVEMBER

09:00 - 10:30 Session 8: Energy Stability
This session looks at how energy stability can be achieved through flexibility to meet variations in load requirements.

Chair: Keh Sai Lee, Principal, K.S. Lee & Associates, Singapore

Dynamic performance of flexible thermal generation in high wind penetration grids
Nicholas Miller, Director, GE Power & Water, USA

Alstom’s peaker solution - the SC13E2 simple cycle power plant - a case study based on the Australian market
Bernard Tripod, Product Manager, Alstom (Switzerland) Ltd., Switzerland
Co-Authors: Klaus Doebbeling, Core Team Leader GT13E2, Alstom (Switzerland) Ltd., Switzerland; Tim Maddever, Country Sales Director, Australia & New Zealand; Bernie Hayes, Country Sales Director - Alstom (Australia) Ltd., Australia

Start stop operation of combined cycle power plants to improve operational efficiency
Andreas Pickard, Head of Product Marketing Plants, Siemens AG, Germany
Co-Authors: Bernhard Kindelmann, Product Manager; Gero Meinecke, Product Manager - Siemens AG, Germany

Reserve Presentation: New aeroderivative solutions for firming the grid
Daniel Loero, Aero Energy Marketing Manager, General Electric, USA


10:30 – 11:00 Networking Coffee Break