·       CIS Industrial Valve Purchases to Reach $4 Billion/yr. By 2015

• Utility E-Alert Headlines – October 31, 2014
• “Power Plant Cooling” is the “Hot Topic Hour” on November 13, 2014
• McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

CIS Industrial Valve Purchases to Reach $4 Billion/yr By 2015

Next year former Soviet Union countries will spend just under $4 billion for industrial valves.  This is the forecast by the McIlvaine Company in Industrial Valves: World Market.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Valve Revenues CIS ($ Millions)

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Russia accounts for the majority of the purchases. The Ukraine has significant purchases.  Due to the problems with Russia and concern about Russian gas supply, Ukraine is building two large coal gasification plants.  Each plant will have more than 10,000 valves.

The other CIS category includes:

·        Armenia

·        Azerbaijan

·        Estonia

·        Georgia

·        Kyrgyzstan

·        Latvia

·        Lithuania

·        Moldova

·        Tajikistan

·        Turkmenistan

Oil and gas is one of the largest applications for valves in the CIS.  Russia is the second largest producer of dry natural gas and the third largest liquid fuels producer in the world.  Some of the valves for Russian projects are being specified and/or purchased by U.S. companies.

CB&I  has been awarded contracts valued in excess of $90 million by NefteGazIndustriya, LLC, through project developer MAVEG GmbH, to provide the technology licenses and front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for the Afipsky Oil Refinery in Krasnodar, Russia.

KBR, Inc. has been awarded a contract for project management consultancy (PMC) services for the construction of the advanced oil processing complex which is the part of the major renovation program of the largest operating refinery in Russia owned by JSC Gazprom Neft.  The refinery is located in Omsk, Western Siberia, Russia.  KBR will provide PMC services for three new process units and offsites and utilities construction beginning with the front-end engineering and design phase and continuing through EPC, commissioning and start-up.

For more information on Industrial Valves: World Market, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/115-n028.

Headlines for Utility E-Alert –October 31, 2014 

UTILITY E-ALERT    

#1198 – October 31, 2014      

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COAL – US

• Activated Carbon Contract for Cabot

§  Power4Georgians gets 18-month extension on Coal Plant Air Permit

§  DTE completes Clean Coal Project at Monroe Power Plant in Michigan

§  CONSOL sells Illinois Coal Reserves to Murray Energy

COAL – WORLD

§  Government of India unveils Plan for More Equitable Supply of Coal for Power Plants

§  Andhra Pradesh, India wants to procure 2400 MW of Power

§  Tata Power to complete 1,320 MW Long Phu 2 in Vietnam Three Years Early

§  China Machinery Engineering Corp. to build Power Plant in Punjab, India

§  Coal-fired Power Plants still being studied in Myanmar

GAS/OIL – US

• Wärtsilä to supply Engines to Power Plant on Oahu, Hawaii
• Kentucky Utilities Project Need for up to 737 MW of New Power by 2020

§  New Gas-fired Power Plant approved for Huntington Beach

GAS/OIL – WORLD

• General Electric building Power Plants in Egypt
• ATCO selected to develop Cogeneration Power Project in Mexico
• Lithuania to shut down Elektrenai 1, 2

NUCLEAR

• Sendai Nuclear Power Plant to be restarted in Japan
• GE Hitachi awarded nearly $300 Million in Outage Services and Fuel Contracts by Exelon Generation
• Proposed Tax Hike in Sweden could shutdown Nuclear Power Plants

BUSINESS

• GE & Partners develop Machinery for Gas Turbine Production
• A Number of Gas Turbine Projects in Western Africa

§  Hundreds of Subsea Projects with Thousands of Pumps Moving Forward Despite Shrinking Oil Prices

HOT TOPIC HOUR

• “NOx Reduction Innovations for Coal-fired Power Plants” to be conducted over the Internet on Thursday, November 6, 2014, at 10 a.m. CST
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

For more information on the Utility Tracking System, click on: 

http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/2-uncategorised/89-42ei

“Power Plant Cooling” is the “Hot Topic Hour” on November 13, 2014

This webinar will focus on the decisions power plants will make relative to steam cooling at both new and existing facilities.  In the U.S., operators have to deal with regulation 316B which requires water intake procedures to minimize harm to aquatic life.  Many plants have once-through cooling systems.  One option to meet 316B is to install cooling towers and recirculate water. This is very expensive.  Less costly alternatives such as intake screens which either prevent entrapment or rejection without harm need to be considered.  Flow control with variable speed pump drives is another option.

New power plants have the option of air cooled condensers, hybrid cooling, or wet cooling towers.  Air cooled condensers consume more energy but do not consume water.  If they are designed based on average ambient air temperatures, there can also be a generation output problem in hot weather.  The ACC has been typically utilized in arid areas, but recently it has been selected simply because of the faster permitting track.

If wet cooling towers are chosen, decisions have to be made relative to the recirculating and bleed rates and the use of side stream filtration.  A further decision has to be made relative to the fate of the bleed stream.  A number of plants are opting for zero liquid discharge.

Another option is to find co-generation uses for the heat. Great Rivers Energy, which operates ethanol plants on site, is a prime example of the success of this option.

The webinar will examine all of these options for nuclear, coal and gas turbine combined cycle power plants.

Panelists will include:

Keith Silverman, Proposal Manager, Research Cottrell Cooling

Nick Schroeder, BSME, PE, Kiewit Power Engineers 

Daniel M. Cicero, Senior Industry Development Manager, Power Group, Water & Process Services Division, Nalco Company

Trent T. Gathright, Business Manager – Intakes & Cooling Water Energy Group – Americas, Ovivo

Barbara Carney, Chemical Engineer, Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Click here to view schedule and register

McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

On Thursday at 10 a.m. Central time, McIlvaine hosts a 90 minute web meeting on important energy and pollution control subjects. Power webinars are free for subscribers to either Power Plant Air Quality Decisions or Utility Tracking System. The cost is $300.00 for non-subscribers.

See below for information on upcoming Hot Topic Hours. We welcome your input relative to suggested additions.

Click here for the Subscriber and Power Plant Owner/Operator Registration Form

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