8-Hour course registration fees include workshop materials, certificate of completion, lunch and coffee breaks. Certificates of completion may be submitted to your professional organization for Professional Development Hours.

CPC 101 :: Capital Investment Analysis for Power Plant Projects
Date: Sunday, December 9, 2012 Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Room: S320E Cost: $500.00

Instructor
John M. Hynes, Partner, Excidian LLC

Who Should Attend
Positions whose tasks relate directly or indirectly to plant operations / maintenance; or require financial knowledge to understand or contribute to capital investment decisions will benefit. Job titles of professionals who have taken this course include Plant Manager, Senior Engineer, Manager Major Capital Projects, VP Business Development and General Manager Strategic Development. Participants should have some business and financial acumen gleaned from academic courses or on-the-job experience.

Course Overview and Objective
This one-day course has two modules. They are:

I. Financial Statements – Participants review how the three major financial statements are constructed. The Income Statement,
Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement are studied using short, interactive exercises to demonstrate how routine business
transactions impact each statement and to show how the statements relate to one another.
II. Capital Investment Decision Analysis – Participants review Present Value; Net Present Value; Internal Rate of Return; and Weighted Average After-Tax Cost of Capital. A customized spreadsheet model is used to perform valuation exercises for power plant projects. Participants make decisions about inputs that ultimately drive the decision of whether to allocate capital to the projects.

Course Highlights
:: Customized. The Capital Investment module is customized for professionals making capital allocation decisions in power plants.
:: Hands-on learning. Much of the day is spent working in large and small groups. Bring your notebook computer to work on the project valuation exercises. Please include a power cord also.
:: Interactive. Participants are encouraged to ask questions often and whenever they come to mind.
:: Relevant to current events. Course facilitator, John M. Hynes, MSEE, MBA relates teaching points to current industry news.
:: Primary learning goal. The primary purpose of this course is to provide participants with the financial knowledge to analyze power plant projects and to make business decisions that are in the best interests of their company.
:: Participants exit this course understanding the importance of applying financial analysis to accurately analyze capital projects.

Instructor’s Biography
John M. Hynes, Partner, Excidian LLC
John Hynes (MSEE, MBA, Partner at Excidian, LLC) began his career in the power generation industry in 1983. At Excidian since 1998, John develops and facilitates customized finance and energy industry courses. John’s experience with strategic, political, financial and organizational issues facing the energy industry, along with his extensive knowledge of finance has established him as an engaging and well-respected facilitator.

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CPC 102 :: Turbine Generator Failures: Prediction and Prevention
Date: Sunday, December 9, 2012 Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Room: S320F Cost: $500.00

Instructors
William G. Moore, P.E., Director, Technical Services, National Electric Coil (NEC); Steve Reid, P.E., President, TG Advisers Inc.

Who Should Attend
Power plant managers, supervisors, and engineers, Suppliers of Turbine - Generator components and services, Turbine - Generator consultants and inspection/test organizations, along with Insurers of Power Generation Equipment frequently attend the course. Anyone in the Power Industry that wants a deeper understanding of steam and gas turbines, generators, and why these machines fail and how to prevent failures in the future.

Course Overview and Objective
This intensive, full day course describes major failure modes that steam and gas turbines, as well as generators, experience. Methods for prevention of these failures will also be presented. An understanding of these failure modes, and how to prevent them, will help plant personnel avoid costly forced outages. New issues on increased unit cycling and turndown will also be discussed along with the pitfalls of associated equipment issues. The most current industry problems and failure modes are presented, along with many recent case histories. Time is allotted for course attendees to discuss their own case studies and establish next step options for failure prevention. Each participant receives a comprehensive set of course notes, updated with the latest industry issues, as well as recent published papers by the authors.

Course Highlights
The AM session covers Steam and Gas Turbines. Major topics include:
:: Turbine design fundamentals and component descriptions
:: Diagnosing and prevention of blade failures including a review of industry failure statistics, blade excitation sources, common failure mechanisms, root cause failure analysis procedures, plant operation and maintenance considerations, and key diagnostic tools
:: Common steam turbine rotor and disc cracking concerns including corrosion, creep and fatigue cracking mechanisms, forging concerns, weld repair options and associated case studies
:: Turbine Lateral and Torsional Vibrations – new and retrofit Turbine Design issues and criteria
:: Overview of combustion turbine failure mechanisms
:: Affects of increased cycling and equipment turndown on mature turbine and generator assets.
:: Over 20 turbine recent failure case studies and recommended corrective action and fixes

The PM session covers Generators. Major topics include:
:: Overview of generator design, operation and component description.
:: Diagnosis and prevention of generator rotor problems, including rotor winding shorts, grounds, copper distortion, balance problems, rotor thermal sensitivity, forging evaluation, retaining ring stress corrosion cracking, pole to pole crossover failures, J-strap fatigue, rotor dovetail cracking, with many case studies
:: Description of rotor testing including megger testing (insulation resistance), pole drop, hi-potential, flux probe, stationary, RSO and running impedance
:: Diagnosis and prevention of generator stator problems, including stator winding grounds, turn to turn shorts, partial discharge, end winding vibration, stator core iron shorting and melting, core looseness, crevice corrosion cracking on water cooled coils. More recent industry issues include partial discharge and spark erosion damage on large, high voltage, air-cooled generators. Many case studies.
:: Description of stator testing including EL CID, core loop & thermography, insulation resistance, winding resistance, power factor, high frequency surge test, vacuum decay, pressure decay, capacitance testing, with many case studies
:: Over 200 full color photos of failures and fixes.

Instructors’ Biographies
William G. Moore, P. E. is Director of Technical Services for National Electric Coil (NEC). Prior to joining NEC, Bill held plant management positions at FPL. He is a P.E. in Florida and Ohio, and has published over 70 papers on generators. He is a frequent short course instructor on generator issues in the industry worldwide.

Stephen R. Reid, P. E. As President of TG Advisers, Steve’s company has provided condition assessments on over 150 STG units. Steve has numerous patent disclosures/award, and published over twenty five papers. Steve received the ASME George Westinghouse Silver Medal, was past Chairman of the ASME Power Operations Committee and is a Registered P.E.

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CPC 103 :: HRSG Fundamentals – Operations, Inspections and Maintenance of Combined Cycle HRSGs
Date: Sunday, December 9, 2012 Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Room: S320G Cost: $500.00

Instructors
Akber Pasha, Technical Director, Vogt Power International Inc.; Nils Holmblad, VP, Aftermarket and Field Services, Vogt Power International

Who Should Attend
Engineers responsible for developing the HRSG specifications, Combined Cycle Plant designers, Plant Operators, Plant performance evaluators, Engineers involved in training the operators,

Course Overview and Objective
The course gives a brief description of the main components of a combined cycle plant and the working theory of these components. The HRSG components are described in detail which includes their functionality and the basic theory. The limits of design are also explained along with the material of construction. Various stages between manufacturing to ready for installation and the importance of each stage is described next.

Proper specification and selection of auxiliary equipment is essential for a well balanced HRSG. These are included in the course. The course is concluded with a discussion Performance evaluation

Course Highlights
:: Combined Cycle Plant Components and their operating theory
:: Types of HRSG and comparative evaluation
:: HRSG Basic Design Procedures
:: HRSG Components and their functions
:: Instruments and Measurements
:: Auxiliary equipment
:: HRSG Construction and Transportation Basics
:: HRSG installation and Commissioning
:: Water Chemistry and Steam Purity
:: Basic Operations including start-ups, shut downs and load changes
:: Inspection and Maintenance protocol
:: What to Inspect and when

Instructors’ Biographies
Akber Pasha, Technical Director, Vogt Power International Inc.
Akber Pasha is from India and has Engineering and Business degrees from India and US. As a Technical Director at Vogt Power International, he deals with Design development, optimization , problem solving and life studies. His work since joining Henry Vogt Machine Company is an essential part of HRSG technology.

Nils Holmblad, VP, Aftermarket and Field Services, Vogt Power International
Nils Holmblad is from Sweden and has Engineering degrees from Sweden and US. He joined Vogt as a director of Aftermarket Services. Presently he is VP of aftermarket Services and Field Services, overseeing the activities of team of engineers involved in commissioning, troubleshooting, Inspection and maintenance of the HRSGs

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CPC 105 :: Renewable Energy Venture Development
Date: Sunday, December 9, 2012 Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Room: S310E Cost: $500.00

Instructor
Sumesh Arora, Ph.D., Director, Strategic Biomass Solutions; Tony Jeff, President/CEO, Mississippi Technology Alliance

Who Should Attend
This course is targeted to entrepreneurs, project developers, investors and economic developers (local, regional and those representing utility companies) who are trying to deploy a) renewable energy projects or b) develop innovative technologies. Entrepreneurs will learn what investors are looking for in bankable ventures and economic developers/investors will learn how to screen renewable energy deals through the use of online tools provided in the course.

Course Overview and Objective
This course will provide a comprehensive set of tools and methodologies to screen, develop, or coach innovation-based renewable energy ventures. The course walks the participants through an overview of the energy market drivers and emerging technology options followed by the rigorous process of developing a technology based venture. The course is based around a set of tools designed to assist entrepreneurs in understanding the requirements of an investor-ready deal. The course teaches the attendees to assess the venture risk in five areas: product, market, management, finance, and execution.

Used with hundreds of entrepreneurial clients, the tools have proven to be able to simplify and prioritize the steps toward success for these ventures. The tools have also been used for venture evaluation and serve as a due-diligence checklist for investors, economic developers and consultants who have sought this training to screen potentially viable projects or coach startups.

While individual investors and economic developers find the format and criteria of these web-based tools useful as an effective due-diligence method, energy entrepreneurs and project developers using the tools can be assured of common language and expectations regarding valuation as well as technical and market validation. Additionally the attendees are exposed to the “butterfly model” of inter-organizational collaboration which is required to deploy successful renewable energy and emerging technology projects.

Course Highlights
Learn about the venture development process as you walk through the
:: Concept phase
:: Development phase
:: Commercialization phase

Learn to identify risk in five key areas
:: Product/technical risk
:: Market risk
:: Finance risk
:: Management risk
:: Execution risk

Learn about the need for private-public collaboration

Instructors’ Biographies
Sumesh Arora, Ph.D., Director, Strategic Biomass Solutions
Dr. Arora has 22 years of experience in the chemical and renewable energy industries in the public and private sectors. His PhD is in International Development and a master in materials engineering. Sumesh has advised 70+ renewable energy companies, holds a patent for a poultry litter-to-energy system and has authored numerous publications.

Tony Jeff, President/CEO, Mississippi Technology Alliance
Tony has a MBA and masters in engineering. He has coached 300+ entrepreneurial ventures and consulted with companies that successfully raised over $100 million in private equity. While working at Florida Power & Light, GM, and Delphi, Tony led a variety of finance and sales teams