Call for Papers: Themes and Topics
The Call for Papers deadline has now passed. The full conference programme will be published on this website in February 2008.
PLANNED THEMES AND TOPICS
THEME 1: STRATEGY FOR THE EUROPEAN MARKET
Work continues in the expanded EU to develop a coherent energy regulatory framework to help meet the goals of economic development, energy security and environmental protection.
Examples of topics:
• Issues affecting the Italian market
• Fuel issues – from political, economic and technical points of view
• Future fuel costs, availability and the impacts on the power sector
• Future use of electricity
• Emissions trading to 2012 and beyond
• The impact of EU directives – who is running the show?
• Generation needs of Eastern Europe
• The gas, coal, emissions price balance
• Security of supply
• Experience with liberalization
• Asset management strategies
• Risk management
• Financial management in the power sector
• Financing of power generation projects
• Market for distributed generation
• The impact on global competitiveness of European environmental legislation
• The role of LNG
• The future for biofuels
THEME 2: TOWARDS ZERO EMISSIONS AND CARBON CAPTURE
The vision of a CO2–free environment is now a global priority. What will need to happen to make the vision a reality and what is a realistic timescale?
Examples of topics
• Emission management and strategies:
o trading and/or source control
o impacts of EU directives
• Successful CDM and joint implementation projects – what are the challenges?
• Emission trading and potential barriers
• Biomass, co-firing, biomass gasification
• The new role of nuclear power:
o Regulation and licensing, commissioning, decommissioning, emission reduction and lifetime extension/upgrades
• Energy conservation, energy efficiency and fuel switching, modernization
• Energy storage
• Hydropower: new and rehabilitation
• IGCC as a measure of reducing CO2
• Gasifier technologies
• CO2 capture and storage
• EU carbon capture ready targets 2010
• EU carbon free by 2020
• Oxyfuel technologies
• Pre and post combustion technologies
• Energy efficient solvents
• Supercritical/USC technology
• Waste to energy
THEME 3: GAS FIRED GENERATION
Despite some concerns surrounding gas supply and prices, gas turbines remain the equipment of choice for large parts of the industry, which is driving ever more advanced technology.
Examples of topics:
• Gas turbine developments – operating experience, conversion, modifications and upgrades
• Multiple fuels applications
• Combined cycle development
• Repowering
• Design and engineering tools
• Gas turbines for IGCC technology
• ST for CCGT applications
• HRSG:
o Water chemistry and corrosion control
o Constructability
o Supplemental firing
o Inspection and maintenance
o Assessing life in cycling service; failure analysis; issues related to cycle chemistry
• Once through steam generators
• SCR and CO absorption
• Operational flexibility of plant
• Turndown ability
THEME 4: FOSSIL AND NUCLEAR GENERATION:

There is huge planned increase in coal generation in Europe and the serious prospect of a renaissance of nuclear power generation. This theme will address the latest technologies.
Examples of topics:
FOSSIL
• Conventional power plant developments
• Supercritical technologies
• Towards 700oC technologies
• Advanced technologies
• Boiler design
• Once through technologies
• Scale up of CFB units
• Biomass/coal co-combustion
• Development in materials technology
• High temperature and high-pressure material

NUCLEAR:
• Developments in third generation technology
• Fourth generation reactor technology
• Licensing of technologies
• Advanced passive reactor design
• Safety
• Control systems and monitoring
• Modernization and upgrade
• Reactor fuel management
THEME 5: ELECTRICAL AND INFORMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS

Effective power plant operation means that access to information at the right time for the right decision is essential. Methodologies and equipment enabling plants to run in a highly automated way smoothly and exactly in the given limits provide a competitive advantage.
Examples of topics:
I&C SYSTEMS
• Simulation
• Information management
• Grid and frequency control
• Advanced control applications
• Condition monitoring and assessment
ELECTRICAL
• Transformers
• Electrical machines
• Switchgears
THEME 6: OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE AND PLANT OPTIMIZATION

In a competitive environment, plant operation and overall system optimization are key. Maintenance strategies and methods of maintaining maximum availability are tools in the drive to being competitive in today’s power market.
Examples of topics:
• Resource scheduling
• Maintenance management
• Combustion optimization
• Process optimization
• Start up optimization
• Operation optimization
• Emission monitoring and optimization
• Plant life extension
• Efficiency improvement
• Power plant simulations
• Operator training
• New trends in plant operation
THEME 7: DISTRIBUTED GENERATION AND SMALL SCALE POWER PLANTS

Proponents of local or distributed energy production point to the cost, security of supply and emissions benefits - all of which are increasingly high profile topics and therefore driving the sector forward. This theme addresses the economic and policy landscape surrounding local power/heat production along with the developments in technologies and examples of innovative applications.
Examples of topics:
• Policies to promote distributed generation (DG)
• The DG market in Italy – an overview
• Fuel cells
• CHP (including new ways of utilizing waste heat)
• Micro generation
• Reciprocating engines and distributed generation technology
• Mobile power solutions
• Integration of small power plants into the system
• Local (embedded) biogas and biomass generators
• How to improve profitability of micro-CHP systems
• Hybrid projects
ABSTRACT SUBMITTAL DEADLINE:
NOW EXTENDED TO FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2007
NOTE: Themes and topics relating to renewable energy as well as transmission and distribution that were previously part of the POWER-GEN Europe conference are now included in the Renewable Energy Europe and POWERGRID Europe conference programmes respectively.
Authors wishing to submit abstracts on these topics are advised to do so via the following websites:
Renewable Energy Europe –
www.renewableenergy-europe.com

POWERGRID Europe –
www.powergrideurope.com