• Speakers in 4th Thermal Power India 2010 include (sorted in alphabetical order by first name):

• Mr A.K. Mathur, AGM (Ash Utilisation)- ‘Ash Management and Emission Control’
• Mr Amitabh Srivastava (AGM-STE), J. Ghosh(AGM- MRL) & M. Batrani, Manager (STE), BHEL Haridawar- Residual Life Assessment in Steam Turbines.
• Mr Amul Gabrani, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Tecpro Systems- Welcome Address in the Inaugural Session
• Mr Anil Razdan, Former Secretary (Power)
• Mr Antony P Kurian, Chief Operating Officer, Igus India- Effective Cable Management System for Power Plant Equipment
• Mr Ashutosh Sharma, General Manager, Jasubhai Engineering- Plasma Ignition Technology for Pulverised Coal
• Mr Atish Kumar Vatts, Team Leader-  Energy & Infrastructure Practice, Kochhar & Co- Topic related to Legal & Regulatory framework issues effecting the Thermal energy sector
• Mr Babak Seyedan, Director- Thermal, Hatch Canada- Economic Evaluation of Hybrid Solar-Coal Power Plant- A Case Study
• Mr Bishal Thapa, Managing Director, ICF International- Positioning Coal in the Low Carbon Economy
• Mr C. Misra, AGM (STE), Rajeev Rawat, Manager, (STE), Jatinder Mohan, Engineer (STE) BHEL Haridawar” Present and emerging trends in the development of Steam Turbine
• Mr Chandan Chowdhury, CEO, IFS- IT as an Enabler to Improve Performance of Power Sector
• Mr D K Sharma, Professor- Centre for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi- Clean Coal Technologies & CO2 Sequestration
• Mr D.K.Agarwal, GM CENPEEP, NTPC. Ltd. “Energy Efficiency”
• Mr David Wen-Chung Lin, Director, Department of Nuclear Generation, Taiwan Power Company “ Nuclear Power In Taiwan”
• Mr Dirk Mensing, Flender Limited- Power Transmission, Motion Technology & Vertical Roller Mill Drives
• Mr Edward Chen, President AESIEP & CEO Taipower, Taiwan
• Mr Emanuel Pesatori, Chief Engineer Research and Development, Franco Tosi Meccanica (a subsidiary of Gammon India Limited)- A Case Study on the Impact of Reheat Turbines on the Indian Power Generation Industry
• Mr Flemming Skovgaard Nielsen, Paolo Danesi, M.V.Radhakrishnan - BWE, Denmark - Modern boiler concept for higher efficiency power stations
• Mr G.S.Bindra GM, BHEL- Ultra Supercritical Power Plants
• Mr K.Vijayanand, MD, APGENCO- APGENCO’S initiative for Energy Management
• Mr Lakshmi Narain, Energy Adviser, NPTI Nagpur- Energy Reduction through Improved Maintenance Practices
• Mr MT Swamy, Deputy General Manager- Conforma Clad Division, Kennametal India Limited- Advanced Erosion Protection Technology Retains Engineered Geometry in the Severe Environment of Coal Fired Burners
• Mr N.K. Srivastava, AGM (R&M-Engg), NTPC Limited- Energy Efficient Technologies For Renovation of Power plants -User's Perspective
• Mr N.Murugesan, Chief Manager, TCE Consulting Engineers- Role of Nuclear Power as the future source of Energy for the growing power demand
• Mr Namit Shah, Managing Director, F Harley & Co- Fugitive Dust Control in Power Plants through Fog Based Technology
• Mr Nilesh Sinha, VP- Logistics, AllCargo Global Logistics
• Mr P.S. Bami, Former CMD, NTPC –Project Implementation Issues-Slow Progress, Capacity Constrains, Shortages of Equipment, land acquisition, Procedural hurdles
• Mr Pankaj Bharti, AGM, NTPC Ltd
• Mr Pankaj Gadhia, CEO, Lee & Muirhead- Logistics Challenges in setting up Thermal Power Projects
• Mr Puneet Chitkara, Principal, Mercados EMI Asia- ‘Power Market Development and Power Trading’
• Mr R.K. Anand, Senior DGM (PMG), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited “‘Up rating, Renovation and Modernization of Old Power Plants”
• Mr Raj Prasad, Head & Lead Auditor- Energy Management Systems, Topic-  Unveiling the Next Step in Energy Management: BS EN 16001
• Mr Rakesh K Goyal, Chief of Party DRUM & WENEXA (USAID Projects) & Managing Consultant PA Consulting Group
• Mr Rupender Bhatnagar, Director- Utilities, Microsoft Corporation India- Empowering Excellence in Power Generation
• Mr S K Mukherjee, Executive Director, Tecpro Systems Limited- Topic Related to Material Handling
• Mr S. K. Kawatra, Director, Advanced Sustainable Iron and Steelmaking Center (ASISC), USA
• Mr S.K.Dube, General Manager(AUD)/ CENPEEP, Ash Utilization Division- Exploration for Adoption New Technologies for Fly Ash Utilization
• Mr Sandeep Dave, Director, Neptune Industries Ltd- Fly Ash Bricks Manufacturing Project- An Integral Feature of Fly Ash Utilization Program
• Mr Sanjay Gambhir, General Manager, Doosan Babcock Engineering Services India- Coal Fired Supercritical Power Plants – Critical Review
• Ms Suchitra Chitale, Managing Partner, Chitale & Chitale Partners- Legal aspects in Power Purchase Agreement and Market Development
• Mr Suresh Sarma, Chief Operating Officer- Technical, Gactel Turnkey Project (formerly Gammon Cooling Towers)- Thermal Upgradation of Cooling Towers & its Impact on Power Generation’
• Mr T.K. Ghosh, AGM, P.K. Bansal, Senior Manager, BHEL Haridawar “Latest trends in large rating Steam Turbine Blading
• Mr Tzeng-Hsi Liu, Deputy Director, Department of Nuclear Generation, Taiwan Power Company
• Mr V.N. Choudhary, ED, NTPC- Coal for Power Generation in India: Strategic Issues & Challenges
• Mr Vimal Kumar, Scientist 'G' & Head, Fly Ash Unit, Govt. of India, Ministry of Science & Technology - Disposal of Ash and Emission Control by using coal with not more than 34% ash
• Mr Vivek Pai, Manager– Sales & Marketing, Honeywell Automation- 'Power Plant Operational Improvement using Automation'

• Paper Presenters
• Dr. Dhananjay B.Devi, Certified Energy Manager & Lecturer (Selection Grade), Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil College of Engg. & Poly. Satara - Improvement In Energy Efficiency In Foundry Industry Using Energy Management Practices And Energy Conservation
• Mr Hedayat Omidvar, Head of Communication Affairs- Research & Technology Dept, National Iranian Gas Company- National Iranian Gas Company- Prospect of Natural Gas Industry in Iran
• Mr Harmeet Singh Bagga, Senior Engineer, NTPC Kawas Gas Power Project- New Mega Power Policy, a Boost to Power Sector

Prominent Speakers in 2nd & 3rd Thermal Power India included:

(the designations of the speakers reflect the positions held by them at the time of the events)

• Mr Anil Razdan, Secretary, Ministry of Power
• Mr V P Joy, Joint Secretary (Th, IPP, FS), Ministry of Power
• Mr T Sankaralingam, CMD, NTPC
• Mr D N Prasad, CMD, MP Power Generating Company
• Dr Sudhir Kumar Calla, CMD, RRVUNL
• Mr P Abraham, Former Secretary, Power
• Mr H L Bajaj, Member (Technical), Appellate Tribunal for Electricity
• Mr V Sethuraman, Director (Power), Neyveli Lignite Corporation
• Dr Vimal Kumar, Head- Fly Ash Unit, Govt of India
• Mr Arvind Singhal, Managing Director, Hagglunds Drives
• Mr Sunil Verma, Member (E&C), CEA
• Mr A B L Srivastava, Director, NHPC
• Mr S Thakur, Executive Director (CP), Nuclear Power Corporation
• Dr Chandan Chowdhury, CEO, IFS Solutions
• Mr T K Basu, Vice President- Technical, Microtex
• Mr K V Muthukrishnan, Executive Director- PMG & TS, BHEL
• Mr G S Bindra, General Manager- Incharge, Power Sector, BHEL
• Dr Ira Jaroslav, Director, SKODA Power
• Mr Prasad Rao, Addl VP- DTPS, Reliance Energy
• Mr Ashwani Sachar, General Manager- Power Plants, Wartsila
• Mr Gokul Chaudhri, Partner & Leader- Energy, BMR & Associates
• Dr Seshadri Kumar, Manager- Technical Marketing, CD-Adapco India
• Mr John O Thames, Engineering Director, Fluor Daniel
• Mr Luc Jacquet, MD- South East Asia, EDF
• Mr Sujit Ghosh, Executive Director, BMR & Associates
• Mr Mukul Modi, VP - PA & SF, SBI Capital Markets
• Mr Prabjot Singh Bhullar, Partner, Kochhar & Company
• Mr Rajesh K Mediratta, Vice President, Indian Energy Exchange
• Mr Pramod Joshi, VP- South Asia Pacific & Middle East, GE Energy
• Mr Reji Kr Pillai, Head - Energy & Utilities, IBM
• Mr K A Sivaram, Advocate, Chitale & Chitale Partners
• Mr N.K.Bansal, GM, BHEL
• Dr Sanjay Gambhir, Head- Plant Design & Piping, Doosan Babcock
• Mr P M Bhardwaj, Director -Production, Instrumentation Limited
• Mr P S Bami, Former CMD, NTPC and President- India Energy Forum
• Mr Dhruv K. Kotak, Director, J M Baxi & Co
• Mr S Padmanaban, Dy Director & Senior Advisor, USAID
• Mr Janesh Gulati, Sr. VP- Project Transport Division, J M Baxi & Co
• Mr V Sethuraman, Director (Power), Neyveli Lignite Corporation
• Prof Avinash Chandra, Head- Centre for Energy Studies, IIT- Delhi
• Mr M T Swamy, DGM - New Business Development, Kennametal India
• Mr Takuya Hattori, President, Japan Atomic Industrial Forum In
• Mr Dipankar Ghosh, Associate Director, Ernst & Young
• Mr T K Haldar, AGM- Sales, Murugappa Morgan Thermal Ceramics
• Mr Shantanu Banerjee, Business Area Manager, Hagglunds Drives
• Mr J Ganesh, Director- Indian Operations, KMPT AG
• Mr Paul Felten, Senior Vice-President, AREVA NP, France
• Ms Sunita Kumar, Director- Nuclear Energy Affairs, AREVA
• Mr U S Bapat, Senior GM-Trombay Generating Station, Tata Power
• Mr B Bandyopadyay, Advisor, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
• Mr Gopal P Sinha, Director, CMERI
• Dr S K Dube, GM, Ash Utilization Division, NTPC Limited
• Mr N.K. Srivastava, AGM (R&M-Engg), NTPC Limited
• Mr R.P.Tripathi, DGM- Mtc, BTPS
• Mr V N Choudhary, General Manager & Project Head- Badarpur, NTPC
• Mr Y P Abbi, Senior Fellow, Energy & Environment, TERI
• Mr Arun Sarna, Head – Business Development, Evonik Energy
• Mr D K Agrawal, GM, CENPEEP, NTPC
• Mr Kalyan Roychowdhury, Manager - Composite Buisness, Henkel
• ……… amongst others

List of Speakers & Paper Presenters alongwith their topics in Thermal Power India 2

• Presidential address by Mr T Sankaralingam, CMD, NTPC Ltd

• Address by Guest of Honour- Mr H L Bajaj, Member (Technical), Appellate Tribunal for Electricity

• Inaugural Address by Chief Guest, Mr Anil Razdan, Secretary (Power), Ministry of Power

India's Planning for Power for All by 2012
• V P Joy, Joint Secretary (Th, IPP, FS), Ministry of Power

ERP Solutions for Power Generation
• Dr Chandan Chowdhury, CEO, IFS Solutions India

Technology up gradation for more efficient thermal generation
• U S Bapat, Sr GM, Trombay Generating Station, Tata Power Company

A National Plan towards a balanced power development in India
• I M Sahai, Former CMD, PFC & International Consultant in Energy

Thermal Power Capacity Addition- Goals and Challenges
• V Sethuraman, Director (Power), Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd

Fuel for future Power Generation for Sustainable Energy Availability
• S Padmanaban, Dy Director & Senior Advisor, US Agency for International Development

Fuel options for future thermal power development in India
• N C Jha, Director (Technical), Coal India Ltd

Advanced pulverized coal fired power plants- Present status and future prospects
• K V Muthukrishnan, Eexecutive Director- PMG & TS, BHEL

Design Development of Supercritical & Ultra Supercritical Power Plants
• C Jaidevan, GM- High Pressure Boiler Plant and Seamless Steel Tube Plant, BHEL, Tiruchirappalli

Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle System (IGCC) and Combined Cycle Technology
• G S Bindra, General Manager, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd

Use of Beneficiated Coal for Thermal Power Generation
• A K Jethi, Vice President, Naresh Kumar & Co and Former CGM, Coal India

Clean Coal technology for Green Power
• A K Gupta, GM (PCRI C & PR), BHEL

Blending of Imported Coal with Indian Coals and its associated effects on boiler design and operation
• V T Sathyanathan, GM (Quality), BHEL Tiruchirappali

Design Development of Supercritical & Ultra Supercritical Power Plants
• R Kumar, AGM (BP&P), BHEL & V K Verma, AGM (PE-FB), BHEL

Residual Life Assessment, Uprating Renovation and Modernization of Old Power Plants
• A K Awasthi, Managing Director, UP Power Corporation Limited
• C Subramaniam, Addl GM- Operation Services- R&M, NTPC Limited
• P C Bhavnani, AGM- Steam Turbine Engine, BHEL

Technology Development in Operation and Maintenance of Thermal Plants
• S M Dev Raj , GM (TS) BHEL

Operation and Maintenance Philosophy to Improve Availability of Thermal Power Plants:
• U Jain, Addl Chief Engineer, Gujrat State Electricity Corporation Limited

Operations and Maintenance of DTPS using washed coal
• Prasad Rao, Addl Vice President- DTPS, Reliance Energy

Renovation & Modernization and Life Extension of Thermal Power Plants
• Siddarth Dutta & Chinmoy Mohanty, Turbo Machines Group, Alstom Projects India Ltd

Residual Life Assessment and Renovation & Modernization of Steam Turbine
• Amitabh Srivastava, Sr Dy GM (FES), STE (FES), BHEL Ranipur, Haridwar
• R K Anand, DGM, BHEL & S J Ghosh, BHEL

Residual Life Assessment and Life Extension Programme in Power Boilers of Captive Power Plant (120 MW x 8) of NALCO
• R S Das, Chief Manager (Mech ) & Area in Charge- Boiler Maintenance- CPP, NALCO

Operation and Maintenance Philosophy to Improve Availability of Thermal Power Plants:
• S Surya Narayan, Executive Engineer (Mechanical), KPCL

Krauss-Maffei FGD Centrifuges
• J Ganesh, Director of Indian Operations, KMPT Process technology

Afforestation
• Virkush, Sr Manager, NTPC Limited

Evolution of Fuel linked parameters for Indian Power Boiler Design
• Vimal Kumar, Advisor (Fly Ash), Fly Ash Mission

CDM, Carbon trading and Carbon Sequestration:
• Dipankar Ghosh, Associate Director, Ernst & Young
• Swapan Mehra, Business Development Manager, Eco Securities
• Prabjot Singh Bhullar, Partner, Kochhar & Company

Zero Discharge & Legislation Pertaining to Ash utilization
• G P Saxena, Sr Manager (Envt Mgmt ), NTPC Limited

Environment Management in Thermal Power Plant
• R K Sinha, Addl Sr Chemist, Environment, Management Cell SGTPS, MPPGCL

Project Financing & Proper Techno-Economic Appraisal
• Mr Sunil Verma, Member (E & C), CEA

Financing and Availability of Funds
• Mr Mukul Modi, VP - PA & SF, SBI Capital Markets Limited

Development of a Multi Year Tariff (MYT) Frame Work
• Jagdish Sagar, Former Chairman, Delhi Vidyut Board

Energy analysis of an operational 500 MW coal fuel based thermal power plant
• Dr R D Mishra, Asst Professor, NIT, Silchar & M S Murthy, Asst Professor, Dr Paul Raj Engg College

Nuclear Power- Challenge to Climate Change
• Takuya Hattori, President, Japan Atomic Industrial Forum Inc

Role of Nuclear Power as the Future Source of Energy for the Growing Power Demand
• Bruno Lescoeur, Sr Executive Vice President, EDF
• Pramod Joshi, VP- South Asia Pacific & Middle East, GE Energy
• Rajendra Shrivastava, Former Country Head- India, EDF

Meeting the challenges of nuclear renaissance worldwide
• Paul Felten, Sr Vice President, AREVA NP, France & Sunita Kumar, Director, Nuclear energy affairs, AREVA

Operation of Nuclear Power Station in Indian Power System
• D K Goyal, Station Director, Narora Atomic Power Project
• U Ramamurthy, Station Director, Tarapur Atomic Power Station

Select Speakers in our previous Conferences:

(the designations of the speakers reflect the positions held by them at the time of the events)

• Cdr. Ramesh Bhatia, GM – Corporate Sales, Conzerv Systems Pvt. Ltd
• Dr B.S.K.Naidu, Director General, National Power Training Institute
• Dr Chandan Chowdhury, CEO, IFS Solutions
• Dr M Gopalakrishna, Director-in-Charge, Andhra Pradesh Gas Power Corporation
• Dr M V Krishna Rao, Director, Global Energy Consulting Engineers
• Mr A K Awasthi, MD, UP Power Corporation
• Mr A Viswanath, Senior Vice-President, KPMG Advisory
• Mr Ajay Shankar, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power
• Mr Amit Kapur, Partner, J Sagar & Associates
• Mr Anil Razdan, Secretary, Ministry of Power
• Mr Arup Ghosh, Chief Operating Officer, North Delhi Power Ltd
• Mr Arvind Jadhav, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power
• Mr Arvind Singhal, Managing Director, Hagglunds Drives
• Mr Awanish Kr Awasth, MD, Paschimanchal Vidyut Nigam
• Mr B Bandyopadhyay, Advisor & Head Solar Energy Center, MNRE
• Mr B S Banafar, Chairman, Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board
• Mr Bal Mukand, Executive Director- Planning, NHPC
• Mr Bhanu Bhushan, Member, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission
• Mr Bharat Kumar Meena, Managing Director, Karnataka Power Transmission
• Mr Deepak Shenoy, Head- Metering Solutions, Easun Reyrolle Limited
• Mr Dinesh Kumar, CMD, APCPDCL
• Mr Dipankar Ghosh, Associate Director, Ernst & Young
• Mr Francois Lemperiere, Chairman, Hydrocoop, France
• Mr G Sai Prasad, CMD, Eastern Power Distribution Company of AP Ltd
• Mr H L Bajaj, Member Technical, Appellate Tribunal for Electricity
• Mr J N Gaur, Director, Jai Prakash Hydro
• Mr J P Chalasani, Director- Business Development, Reliance Energy
• Mr J S Sekhon, Member Distribution, Punjab State Electricity Board
• Mr John Briscoe, Senior Adviser, The World Bank
• Mr K Jothiramalingam, MD, Karnataka Power Corporation Limited
• Mr K K Sinha, Director- HR, NTPC
• Mr K V Muthukrishnan, Executive Director- PMG & TS, BHEL
• Mr Kumud Goel, Managing Director, KLG Systel Ltd
• Mr Murli Ranganathan, ED, Torrent Power AEC
• Mr N C Jha, Director- Technical, Coal India
• Mr N Murugesan, Deputy Chief Engineer, TCE Consulting Engineers
• Mr P Abraham, Former Secretary Power
• Mr P K Kukde, Executive Director, Tata Power Co Ltd
• Mr Parag A. Parikh, Principal Product Manager, Oracle Corporation
• Mr R Gopalakrishnan, ED, Tata Sons
• Mr R Jayaseelan, Chairman, Central Water Commission
• Mr R P Singh, CMD, Power Grid Corp of India
• Mr Rabindra Misra, Chief Executive, Indian Aluminium Company Limited
• Mr Rakesh Nath, Chairman, CEA
• Mr Raman Uberoi, Director- Corporate & Infrastructure Rating, CRISIL
• Mr Ravi Kumar, Director- Power, BHEL
• Mr Reji Kumar, Head- Energy & Power Utilities, IBM
• Mr S K Anand, Member- Distribution, PSEB
• Mr S P G Chaudhari, Director, WBREDA
• Mr S S Sinha, Executive Director, CESC
• Mr Sanjeev Aggarwal, CRISIL
• Mr Santosh Kumar, Member, Central Electricity Authority
• Mr Shirish Sinha, Managing Consultant, PriceWaterHouse Coopers
• Mr Singsit, Dy Director General, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
• Mr Stephane Cai,Vice President- Hydro, Alstom Projects India Limited
• Mr Sushil Shinde, Hon’ble Union Minister of Power
• Mr T S Sridhar, Chairman, TNEB
• Mr U C Trivedi, Dy Director- E&E, ERDA
• Mr Uddesh Kohli, Chairman, Consultancy Development Centre
• Mr V Arunachalam, Joint Director, CPRI
• Mr V K Duggal, Secretary, Water Resources, Govt of India
• Mr V K Parashar, ED, Power Grid Corporation
• Mr Vineet Kumar, Strategic Business Manager, Crompton Greaves
• Mr Vivek Gupta, Director, Communications Sector, IBM
• Mr Y H Malegam, SB Billimoria & Co
• Mr Y N Apparao, CMD, Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited
• Ms Nicola Steen, Managing Director- India, CO2e
• Prof Raymond Lafitte, President, International Hydro Power Association