Air Filtration Insights

Sales of air filters for purifying ambient and indoor air will exceed $2.5 billion in the Americas next year. This is the latest forecast in Air Filtration and Purification World Market published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

The U.S. will be the largest purchaser with sales exceeding all the other countries in North and South America combined. However, the growth rate in Brazil and Mexico is exceeding that of the U.S.

Industry	2015
Total	2,566
Bioclean	166
Commercial	625
Electronics	115
Metals	244
Other Industries	499
Power	179
Residential	738

The biggest applications are residential and commercial buildings. Sales for these applications will exceed $1.3 billion. In the power industry, the big use is for filtration of the inlet air for gas turbines. These turbines are used for electricity generation and for combined steam and power in the oil and gas and other industries. The advantages of using highly efficient HEPA filters have been proven. As a result, the industry is slowly moving toward these more expensive filters for turbine intakes. This will create a double-digit revenue growth over the next few years.

Bioclean applications include hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturing plants. The hospital market is relatively small compared to its potential. A greater use of highly efficient filtration systems would substantially reduce transmission of disease among patients and staff.

Many industrial plants incur substantial filter costs because they have a very large intake of air. The reason is that they are discharging large quantities of air through dust collectors. This loss must be replaced by ambient air. Plants which have welding, woodworking, or machining operations are in this category.

Another application is the use of air filters following dust collectors. This combination is seen where the plant wants to return air for reuse in the plant. The air needs to be cleaner than achieved with the dust collector. Therefore, a HEPA filter is inserted in the recirculation duct.

This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There are thousands of projects in the database.

Startup Date	Location	Fuel Comment	Project Title
Unknown	Bangladesh	furnace	Chapainawabganj power plant-Bangladesh Power Development Board
Unknown	Bangladesh	furnace	Ghorasal peaking power plant
Unknown	Bangladesh	furnace	Dohar power plant
Unknown	Bangladesh		Madanganj-Summit Power
Unknown	Bangladesh		Barisal power plant-Summit Industrial
Unknown	Bangladesh	furnace	Sedpur power project
Unknown	Kenya		Rabai power plant-Kenya Power and Lighting Co.
Unknown	Nigeria	low pour fuel oil	Kaduna State power project
Unknown	Panama	heavy fuel oil, 3% S	Miraflores expansion
Unknown	Saudi Arabia		Shaybah expansion-Saudi Aramco
Unknown	Saudi Arabia	heavy fuel, light crude as backup	Yanbu power plant
Unknown	Sudan		Khartoum North III-National Electricity Corp.
Unknown	Uganda	heavy fuel	Tororo power plant-Albatross Energy
Unknown	Venezuela		Termozulia III combined cycle
Online	Ghana	diesel	Tema region cogeneration plant
Online	Kenya	diesel	Nairobi diesel plant
Online	MA		Waters River GT 2-Peabody Municipal Light
Online	NC		Buxton 1-5-North Carolina Elec. Mem. Corp.
Online	NJ		Sherman CT 1-Atlantic City Electric
Online	Saudi Arabia		Shuquaiq
Online	Taiwan	Distillate Oil and then natural gas	NanPu-Taiwan Power
On hold	Pakistan		Kot Addu expansion-Kot Addu Power Co. (KAPCO)
Cancelled	CA		South Bay Unit 3-San Diego Gas & Electric
Cancelled	IL		Elwood CFB-Indeck Energy
Cancelled	NC		Woodfin peaking plant-Progress Energy
Cancelled	NV		Allen GT2-Nevada Power
Cancelled	South Africa	diesel	Port Elizabeth combined cycle plant-IPSA Group
2017	Saudi Arabia		Jeddah South supercritical power plant-Saudi Electricity Co.
2016	Lebanon	heavy and light fuel oil	Deir Ammar CCGT
2016	Saudi Arabia		Jazan (Jizan) IGCC power plant-Saudi Aramco
2016	South Africa	diesel	Avon peaking plant-GDF Suez
2015	Estonia	shale	Narva oil shale CFB power plants-Eesti Energia
2015	Israel		Alon Tavor CCGT Units 5 & 6-Israel Electric
2015	Niger	diesel	Goroubanda diesel power plant
2015	Saudi Arabia	crude	Ras Azzour (Al-Khair) desalination/combined cycle
2015	Saudi Arabia		Riyadh PP10-Saudi Electricity Co.
2015	South Africa	diesel	Coega peaking plant (Dedisa)-GDF Suez
2015	UK	distillate	Fawley peaking addition-RWE Power
2015	Vietnam		O Mon 2 power plant-Can Tho Thermal Power Co.
2014	Bangladesh		Meghnaghat 2-Bangladesh Power Dev. Board
2014	Israel		Haifa CCGT Units 3 & 4-Israel Electric
2014	Jordan	heavy fuel oil, distillate	IPP4 Al-Manakher power plant-AES Corp.
2014	Jordan	heavy and light fuel oil	Al Manakher power plant-Amman Asia Electric Power
2013	Ghana	light crude	Aboadze T3 combined cycle power plant
2013	Saudi Arabia	crude	Rabigh 5 (1,2) expansion-ACWA/Kepco
2012	Bangladesh		PowerPacMutiara Jamalpur power plant
2012	Bangladesh		Kodda-BPDB-RPCL Powergen
2012	Ghana	light crude	Ghana combined cycle power plant
2012	Kenya		Kipevu III (Mombasa)-Kenya Electricity Generating Co.
2012	Saudi Arabia	fuel	Marafiq 5,6--Yanbu Industrial Complex power plant

New power generation projects are tracked in two publications. Fossil and Nuclear Power Generation includes both market forecasts and project data. World Power Generation Projects has just the project data.