| Components, Plant Systems and Design Engineering |
| IJPGC2003-40009 Cathodic Protection Systems for Critical Underground Piping / Ted Huck |
| IJPGC2003-40032 Optimum Condenser Cooling Water Temperature Rise in Power Plants / Ram Srinivasan |
| IJPGC2003-40036 Pickering B Nuclear Power Generating Station Condenser Performance Improvement / Wayne Allen ; David Anderson ; Bert Mayer |
| IJPGC2003-40048 Examining the Fracture of Multi-Layered Coatings by Rheological Modeling of Hertzian Indentation / Maksim Kireitseu |
| IJPGC2003-40055 Optimization of Steam Turbine Extraction Pressures / Fuat Egelioglu ; Hikmet S. Aybar |
| IJPGC2003-40066 A Thirty Year Service Exam: Titanium Tubed Surface Condensers / Dennis J. Schumerth |
| IJPGC2003-40067 Four Years of Successful Operation at Mercer Generating Station Following Feedwater Heater Tube Repair: An Alternative to Replacement / Bruce W. Schafer ; Daniel B. Patten ; Charles R. McCall |
| IJPGC2003-40075 A Pragmatic Approach to Evaluation of Inlet Fogging System Effectiveness / Daniel E. Willems ; Paul D. Ritland |
| IJPGC2003-40078 Windage and Axial Friction Losses of High Speed Generator / Wei-Min Ren |
| IJPGC2003-40081 On the Inability of Multiple Exhausters to Eliminate Condenser Excess Back Pressure at High Air In-Leakage / Joseph W. Harpster |
| IJPGC2003-40102 Qualification of Laser Welded High Performance S44660 Ferritic Stainless Steel for Condenser Tube Applications / James D. Fritz ; Curtis W. Kovach |
| IJPGC2003-40105 Innovative 3-D Numerical Simulation of Thermal Discharge From Browns Ferry Multiport Diffusers / Fangbiao Lin ; George E. Hecker ; Brennan T. Smith ; Paul N. Hopping |
| IJPGC2003-40107 Application of the New ASME Performance Test Code on Steam Surface Condensers PTC 12.2-1998 / Dale C. Karg ; John M. Burns ; Michael C. Catapano |
| IJPGC2003-40115 Influence of Driven Rods on Performance of Grounding Grids in Stratified Soils / S. A. EL-Drieny ; I. A. Metwally ; M. M. EL-Saadawi |
| IJPGC2003-40124 Gas Turbine Inlet Air Cooling: Determination of Parameters to Evaluate Fogging Nozzle's Atomizing Performance / Sanjay Mahapatra ; Jeffrey K. Gilstrap |
| IJPGC2003-40130 Gas Turbine Inlet Air Fogging Systems: Application of Psychrometric Principles to Study Cooling and Humidification Processes |
| IJPGC2003-40156 Control of Rotating Stall in the Diffuser of a Low Speed Centrifugal Compressor / Saad A. Ahmed ; Mohamed A. Gadalla |
| IJPGC2003-40172 Replacing a Fixed Tubesheet Feedwater Heater Design Installed in a Condenser Neck With a U-Tube Design / Stanley Yokell ; Danny Hughes |
| IJPGC2003-40174 Fluid Particles Straightly Forward and Circularly Forward Movements in the Direction of Tangent at Trailing Edge of Impeller Outlet in Centrifugal Turbomachinery / Takaharu Tanaka |
| IJPGC2003-40179 Improved Plant Performance and Reduced CO[subscript 2] Emission Through State-of-the-Art Condenser Cleaning and Air In-Leakage Detection / G. E. Saxon, Jr. ; R. E. Putman |
| IJPGC2003-40196 Improving Turbine Performance by Use of Simple Computational Means / Giorgos Sieros ; Kyriakos D. Papailiou ; R. Kundera |
| IJPGC2003-40205 Optimum Turbine Extraction Pressures for Maximum Efficiency in Steam Power Plant Cycle / Sepehr Sanaye ; Behrooz Farshi ; Hashem Turk |
| Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability |
| IJPGC2003-40003 Steam Jet Air Ejector Performance Evaluation for Nuclear Plants / Komandur S. Sunder Raj |
| IJPGC2003-40004 Performance Evaluation of Feedwater Heaters for Nuclear Plants Under Normal and Abnormal Conditions |
| IJPGC2003-40005 Heat Balance Techniques for Diagnosing and Evaluating Feedwater Flow Nozzle Fouling in Nuclear Plants |
| IJPGC2003-40022 A Synopsis of Cooling Tower Pump Sump Modeling Experience / David E. Werth, Jr. |
| IJPGC2003-40040 New Options for Improving Operation and Reducing Maintenance in Diverter Valves / John M. Brotzman |
| IJPGC2003-40051 Statistical Process Control for Power Plants / Philip J. Flesch |
| IJPGC2003-40052 Operational Reliability Improvement of Plants Through Intelligent Fault Detection and Diagnosis / E. Ricky Odoom |
| IJPGC2003-40053 Framework for Operational Reliability Program Development, Implementation, and Management |
| IJPGC2003-40062 Design of Composite Rehabilitation Technologies for Power Generation Facilities / John A. Charest ; Sarah Witt |
| IJPGC2003-40065 Prospects of Fluidized Bed Combustion in Power Generation / Sridhar Poduri |
| IJPGC2003-40091 Effective Maintenance PM Task Selection Requirements / J. K. August ; Krishna Vasudevan ; W. H. Magninie |
| IJPGC2003-40095 Ultrasonic Testing in 25 Minutes / William E. Blum ; Thomas Gryback |
| IJPGC2003-40113 Real-Time, On-Line Balancing and Vibration Control for Power Plant Rotating Machinery / Andrew Winzenz ; Russell Altieri |
| IJPGC2003-40122 Operating Experience and Improvements After Major Steam Generator Upgrades to New Coal Pulverizers From Rotary Ball Mill Equipment / Patrick A. Costello |
| IJPGC2003-40135 Application of Rough Set Theory to Data Mining of Condenser Diagnosis in Power Plants / Zhongguang Fu ; Tao Jin ; Kun Yang |
| IJPGC2003-40155 Multi-Criteria Optimization of Pulverized Fuel Coal-Fired Power Generation System Load Dispatching / Hongtao Li ; Meinrad Burer ; Fracois Marechal ; Daniel Favrat ; Guolian Hou ; Bao-Heng Zhang ; Zhi-Ping Song |
| IJPGC2003-40160 LCC/RAM Simulation in Support of Gas Turbine Power Plant Forecasting / Neil Winchester ; Steve Hall |
| IJPGC2003-40162 Using Torsional Vibration Spectra to Monitor Machinery Rotor Integrity / Gyorgy Szasz ; Edward J. Guindon |
| IJPGC2003-40190 Construction Management for Today's Power Plant Outage (Or, How to Keep Those Shut-Downs on Target) / Peter G. Hessler |
| IJPGC2003-40199 Risk Assessment of Nuclear Steam Turbine Destructive Overspeed / Rolf Orsagh ; Theodore Meyer ; Stephen Hesler |
| Combined Cycles, Combustion Turbines, Steam Turbines and Generators |
| IJPGC2003-40006 Repowering an Existing Power Generating Plant / Mohammad R. Shahnazari ; Abbas Abbassi |
| IJPGC2003-40008 Case Study Heat Capacity for an Industrial Plant Facility in a Complex / Babak Seyedan ; Rory Hynes ; Satish K. Bhan |
| IJPGC2003-40014 Gland Seal Erosion in a Geothermal Turbine / Zdzislaw Mazur ; Luis M. Palacios ; Gustavo Urquiza |
| IJPGC2003-40017 Experience in Application of Thermal Diagnostics in the Turow Power Station / Andrzej Gardzilewicz ; Jerzy Gluch ; Malgorzata Bogulicz ; Roman Walkowiak ; Malgorzata Najwer ; Jozef Kiebdoj |
| IJPGC2003-40018 A Technoeconomic Comparison of IGCC Power Plants With Cold Gas Cleanup and Hot Gas Cleanup Units Using Indian Coals / J. S. Rao ; J. Neelima ; G. Srikanth |
| IJPGC2003-40023 A Practical Numerical Simulation Approach for 3D Wet Steam Flow / Dongyang Zhang ; Andreas Sturmayr ; Jianjun Liu ; Hongde Jiang |
| IJPGC2003-40030 The Diagnosis of Turbine Component Degradation: Case Histories / J. Kubiak S. ; A. Garcia-Gutierrez ; G. Urquiza B. ; F. Sierra E. ; J. Siqueiros A. ; M. A. Basurto-Pensado |
| IJPGC2003-40044 Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Heavy Duty Gas Turbine Performance Depending on Ambient Conditions / S. Brusca ; R. Lanzafame |
| IJPGC2003-40047 Selection and Operation of Variable Speed Boiler Feed Pumps in a Triple Pressure Combined Cycle Plant / Alan Flory ; Anthony Warburton |
| IJPGC2003-40056 Failure Analysis of the L-O Steam Turbine Blade / G. Gonzalez R. ; D. Juarez R. ; J. Nebradt G. |
| IJPGC2003-40057 Steam-Injected GT Cycles Offer More Power in a Hot Season / Kirk Hanawa |
| IJPGC2003-40058 Coupled CFD and Thermal Steady State Analysis of Steam Turbine Secondary Flow Path / Leonid Moroz ; Alexander Tarasov |
| IJPGC2003-40059 Hybrid Dual-Fuel Combined Cycles for Small-Scale Applications With Internal Combustion Engines / Miroslav P. Petrov ; Thomas Stenhede ; Andrew R. Martin ; Laszlo Hunyadi |
| IJPGC2003-40072 High Steam Turbine Operating Flexibility Coupled With Service Interval Optimization / Artur Ulbrich ; Edwin Gobrecht ; Michael R. Siegel ; Erich Schmid ; Pamela K. Armitage |
| IJPGC2003-40080 Investigation of a Duct Burner Design Using CFD in Comparison With Full-Scale Experiments / Michael A. Lorra ; Carol A. Schnepper ; Stephen Somers |
| IJPGC2003-40082 A Study of Droplet Erosion Ion Two L-O Turbine Stages / Tony C.-T. Lam ; Robert Dewey |
| IJPGC2003-40092 Analytical Model of Copper Deposition Patterns on Large Fossil Steam Turbines for Use in Steam Path Design / Bruce W. Brisson ; John D. Alaksiewicz |
| IJPGC2003-40093 Upgrade of Thermal Stress Supervision and Lifetime Assessment / Gerhard J. Weiss ; Jerry A. Kopczynski |
| IJPGC2003-40096 Optimization Concerns for Combined Cycle Power Plants: II--Optimum Fuel Gas Heating / Walter I. Serbetci |
| IJPGC2003-40097 An Experimental Study of Labyrinth Seal Flow / Mike Michaud ; Ahmad Vakili ; Abraham Meganathan ; Robert Zielke ; Lewis Shuster ; Iames Terrell |
| IJPGC2003-40103 Development of Brush Seal Technology for Steam Turbine Retrofit Applications / Don Stephen ; Simon I. Hogg |
| IJPGC2003-40114 Cycling Tolerance: Natural Circulation Vertical HRSGs / Pascal Fontaine |
| IJPGC2003-40117 Performance Enhancement of Advanced Combined Cycles / Sanjay ; Onkar Singh ; B. N. Prasad |
| IJPGC2003-40118 Comparative Thermodynamic Analysis of Combined and Steam Injected Gas Turbine Cycles / R. Yadav ; Pradeep Kumar ; Samir Saraswati |
| IJPGC2003-40119 Thermo-Economic Analysis of Combined Cycles / Priyesh Srivastava |
| IJPGC2003-40125 Expressions for the Efficient Analysis of Buried Cracks Near to the Bore of Steam Turbine Rotors / Antonio Carnero P. ; Rodolfo Garcia G. ; Oscar Dorantes G. |
| IJPGC2003-40138 Advanced Aerodynamic Sealing System for Thermo Turbo Machinery / Karl E. Uth ; Edward G. Dong |
| IJPGC2003-40139 Design Intricacies of Fire Tube Heat Recovery Boiler for Large Utility IGCC Power Plants |
| IJPGC2003-40145 A Stage Efficiency Prediction Method and Related Performance Aspects of Retrofits on Disc/Diaphragm Steam Turbines / Alan Hesketh ; Simon Hogg |
| IJPGC2003-40151 Recent New Combined Cycle and Gas Turbine Plant Acceptance Test Experience / Michael McClintock ; Eric C. Gwin ; Harold P. Grace ; Ira R. Burcham |
| IJPGC2003-40152 Development of a Thermal Approach to Optimize the Waste Heat Utilisation From an Existing Gas Turbine Station Without Heat Recovery System / Guyh Dituba Ngoma ; Amsini Sadiki |
| IJPGC2003-40158 Application of Novel Speed-of-Sound Based Technique to Measure Steam Wetness With Potential Application Into LP Exhaust / Veera P. Rajendran ; Alan D. Maddaus ; Richard E. Warren ; Richard N. Matthews ; Daniel L. Gysling ; Douglas H. Loose|cThomas W. Engel |
| IJPGC2003-40159 Measuring Torsional Natural Frequencies of Turbine Generators by On-Line Monitoring / Hans D. Giesecke |
| IJPGC2003-40161 Modeling of a 27 MW Combined Cycle Cogeneration Plant With Central Cooling Facility / Sandeep Nayak ; Erol Ozkirbas ; Reinhard Radermacher |
| IJPGC2003-40175 Dual Fuel Application of SCR for Gas Turbines: LES Salt Valley / John T. Langaker ; Byron Bakenhus |
| IJPGC2003-40184 Numerical Model for Steamtight Analysis of High Pressure Casing of Turbine / Yonghui Xie ; Di Zhang |
| IJPGC2003-40189 Advanced Gas Turbine Monitoring and Diagnostic Technology for Modern Power Plants / Helmer Andersen ; Pen-Chung Chen ; Theo Hartmann |
| IJPGC2003-40193 Repair of Rotor Journals / William G. Moore ; Ralph Eder |
| IJPGC2003-40202 Conversion of a GE 7FA From 60 Cycle to 50 Cycle Generation / Andrew W. Sutherland ; Samuel R. Barnes ; William E. McCourtie |
| Fuels, Combustion and Emission Issues |
| IJPGC2003-40021 Multi-Stage Collector Design and Applications / Henry V. Krigmont |
| IJPGC2003-40026 Heat Transfer Characteristics in Cylindrical Furnaces and Combustors / Essam E. Khalil |
| IJPGC2003-40027 NO[subscript X] Control for Stationary Sources and Utility Applications / Thomas F. McGowan |
| IJPGC2003-40042 Modelling and Advanced Control of Industrial Wood Waste Boilers / Richard H. Meeker, Jr. ; Majura F. Selekwa |
| IJPGC2003-40045 Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Carbon Coke FED Steam Power Plant Performance |
| IJPGC2003-40060 A Computational Analysis of Multiphase Flow Cyclonic Separator for Clean Combustion in Power Plants / Fernando Z. Sierra ; David Juarez ; Juan C. Garcia ; Janusz Kubiak ; Ruben Nicolas |
| IJPGC2003-40069 High Tech Tool for Combustion Optimization and Economic Emissions Reductions / Guido Elsen ; Alan D. Jensen ; Axel Boehme ; Jens Happel |
| IJPGC2003-40090 Improvement of Selective Catalytic Reduction System Performance in Combined Cycle Power Plants / Anatoly Sobolevskiy ; Tom Czapleski ; Richard Murray |
| IJPGC2003-40094 Study of Mixing Enhancement From a 12-Lobe Convoluted Mixer / Ibrahim Yimer ; Leiyong Jiang ; Ian Campbell ; Shaji Manipurath |
| IJPGC2003-40099 CFD Modeling of Cogeneration Burner Applications and the Significance of Thermal Radiative Heat Transfer Effects / A. F. Tenbusch |
| IJPGC2003-40101 Experimental Investigation and Numerical Simulation of Gas Ejector in a Combustor With Combustion Gases Recirculation / Kumpeng Zhang ; Fei Xue ; Weiming Pan ; Zhihua Fan |
| IJPGC2003-40104 Apparatus and Method for Emission Control Through Continious Dry Filtration System / David Avina |
| IJPGC2003-40108 Effect of Hydrogen Peroxide on Premixed Iso-Octane/Air Combustion / Mwila C. Mulenga ; David S.-K. Ting ; Graham T. Reader ; Ming Zheng |
| IJPGC2003-40110 Dynamic Model Construction of an Industrial Flue Gas Recirculation (FGR) Furnace for Real-Time NOx Emission Control / Q. Jiang ; C. Zhang ; J. Jiang |
| IJPGC2003-40111 Characteristics of Ammonia-Nitric Oxide Combustion / Rui Liu ; M. David Checkel |
| IJPGC2003-40141 Combustion Improvement System in Boilers and Incinerators / Wlodzimierz Blasiak ; Weihong Yang |
| IJPGC2003-40143 Developing Turbulence on the Propagation of Flames in Methane-Air Premixture / M. Z. Haq |
| IJPGC2003-40148 Slag Monitoring Using Strain Gages at Georgia Power Plant Bowen / Charlie Breeding ; Chris Bentley |
| IJPGC2003-40149 Possibilities of Formaldehyde Removal by Discharge Plasma / Karol Hensel ; Joanna Pawlat ; Kazunori Takashima ; Akira Mizuno |
| IJPGC2003-40173 Hot Gas Filtration in Co-Generation Power Plants / M. H. Al-Hajeri ; M. R. Al-Ajmi |
| IJPGC2003-40176 Ship's Engine Room Fire Modelling / Stojan Petelin ; Marko Perkovic ; Peter Vidmar ; Katja Petelin |
| IJPGC2003-40177 Large Outdoor Fire Model Analysis |
| IJPGC2003-40185 A CFD Model Based Evaluation of Cost Effective NOx Reduction Strategies in a Roof-Fired Unit / James Valentine ; Marc Cremer ; Kevin Davis ; J. J. Letcavits ; Scott Vierstra |
| IJPGC2003-40188 Influence of Variations in the Natural Gas Properties on the Combustion Process in Terms of Emissions and Pulsations for a Heavy-Duty Gas Turbine / Lars O. Nord ; Helmer G. Andersen |
| Advanced Energy Systems |
| IJPGC2003-40019 Nuclear Power: Time to Start Again / William D. Rezak |
| IJPGC2003-40041 Coal Fired MHD Technology: A Prospective Power Generation Method / Manohar Kulkarni ; Xiangyang Gong |
| IJPGC2003-40046 Offshore Wind Farms for Hydrogen Production Subject to Uncertainties / Nabil Kassem |
| IJPGC2003-40061 Optimization of a MCFC/Turbine Hybrid System for Cogeneration / Gerogia C. Karvountzi ; Clifford M. Price ; Paul F. Duby |
| IJPGC2003-40063 The Isoengine: A Novel High Efficiency Engine With Optional Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) / Claus Linnemann ; Mike W. Coney ; Anthony Price |
| IJPGC2003-40071 A New Concept for a Thermal Air Power Tube Used With Concentrated Solar Energy Power Generation in Open-Pit Mines and Large Natural Geo-Physical Phenomenon / Francis A. Di Bella ; Jonathan Gwiazda |
| IJPGC2003-40077 E ffective Utilization System of Unused Energy in Aquarium / Satoru Okamoto |
| IJPGC2003-40079 The Prospects for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion: The Ocean Thermal Gradient Hydraulic Power Plant / Earl J. Beck |
| IJPGC2003-40098 The Advanced Low Pilot Ignited Natural Gas Engine: A Low NOx Alternative to the Diesel Engine / Kalyan K. Srinivasa ; Sundar R. Krishnan ; Satbir Singh ; K. Clark Midkiff ; Stuart R. Bell ; Weidong Gong ; Scott B. Fiveland ; Martin Willi |
| IJPGC2003-40100 Energy Production and Performance of a Large Photovoltaic Roof / Stefano Ubertini ; Umberto Desideri |
| IJPGC2003-40116 Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Stochastic Optimal Power Flow in the Deregulated Power Markets / H. Y. Yamin |
| IJPGC2003-40126 Investigation of the Energy Budget in an Internal Reforming Tubular Type Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Through Numerical Computation / Pei-Wen Li ; Laura Schaefer ; Minking K. Chyu |
| IJPGC2003-40128 H[subscript 2]/O[subscript 2] Cycles: Thermodynamic Potentialities and Limits / M. Gambini ; G. L. Guizzi ; M. Vellini |
| IJPGC2003-40129 Advanced Mixed Cycles Based on Steam-Methane Reforming and Air Blown Combustion |
| IJPGC2003-40131 Power Systems Development Facility: Demonstration of the Transport Reactor for Use in Advanced Integrated Combined Cycle Power Plants / Charles A. Powell ; P. Vimalchand ; Xiaofeng Guan ; John M. Wheeldon ; Peter V. Smith ; James R. Longanbach |
| IJPGC2003-40137 On the Aerodynamics of Wind Turbine / Rui Li |
| IJPGC2003-40140 A New Flywheel Energy Storage System for Distributed Generation / Shuangqing Tang ; Weiwei Zuo ; Daoxun Liao |
| IJPGC2003-40157 A New Combined Power and Cooling Cycle for Low Temperature Heat Sources / D. Y. Goswami ; Gunnar Tamm ; Sanjay Vijayaraghavan |
| IJPGC2003-40163 Cylindrical Foaming Reactor-Electrical Discharge in Foam Bubbles / Chobei Yamabe |
| IJPGC2003-40164 Flexible Heat-to-Power Ratio Co-Generation System With Ammonia-Water Mixture Cycles at Bottoming / Keisuke Takeshita ; Yoshiharu Amano ; Takumi Hashizume ; Akira Usui ; Yoshiaki Tanzawa |
| IJPGC2003-40166 Test and Operation of a PEM Fuel Cell Power System / F. C. Chen ; R. J. Fiskum |
| IJPGC2003-40168 Bundling Advanced Technologies to Achieve Maximum Efficiency and Environmental Acceptability in a Modern Coal-Fired Power Plant / David Gardner ; Roger Fontes ; Richard Casey |
| IJPGC2003-40181 Case Studies of Distributed Generation Projects With Microturbines in Brazil / Eli Eber Batista Gomes ; Marco Antonio Rosa do Nascimiento ; Electo Eduardo Silva Lora |
| IJPGC2003-40192 Experience With Early Distributed Generation Systems / Frederick R. Rosse |
| IJPGC2003-40195 Flywheel Energy Matrix Systems: Today's Technology Enables Efficient Combined Cycle Operation / Alex Rojas ; Matthew Lazarewicz |
| Author Index |
| Components, Plant Systems and Design Engineering |
| IJPGC2003-40009 Cathodic Protection Systems for Critical Underground Piping / Ted Huck |
| IJPGC2003-40032 Optimum Condenser Cooling Water Temperature Rise in Power Plants / Ram Srinivasan |
| IJPGC2003-40036 Pickering B Nuclear Power Generating Station Condenser Performance Improvement / Wayne Allen ; David Anderson ; Bert Mayer |
| IJPGC2003-40048 Examining the Fracture of Multi-Layered Coatings by Rheological Modeling of Hertzian Indentation / Maksim Kireitseu |
| IJPGC2003-40055 Optimization of Steam Turbine Extraction Pressures / Fuat Egelioglu ; Hikmet S. Aybar |
