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Water Market Insights
No. 116 September
19, 2014 |
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China Pump Market to Exceed $9 Billion Next Year
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U.S. Market for Gas Turbine System Components Shaped By Regulations and
Economics
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“Water
Treatment Chemicals for Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plants” - Hot Topic
Webinar on September 25 at 10 a.m.
Central
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McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration
China Pump Market to Exceed $9 Billion Next Year
The Chinese market for pumps is growing rapidly as is the ability to supply them
domestically. Industrial pump sales in China will exceed $9 billion in 2015
according to the latest forecasts in
Pumps World Market
published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
China Pump Market ($ Millions)
Subject |
2015 |
Total |
9,100 |
Centrifugal |
6,701 |
Diaphragm |
765 |
Reciprocating |
612 |
Rotary |
1,022 |
The exports exceed imports by approximately $1 billion, so total industrial pump
production is over $10 billion. Higher technology pumps are produced by
international joint ventures and obtained by imports. There are 20 large
domestic producers accounting for sales of just under $2 billion.
Some of the joint venture international companies are exporting pumps from
China. As a result, the sales by this group are several billion dollars per
year.
The energy sector will contribute to much of the growth in the coming years.
China has embarked on a huge coal to chemicals and fuels program. If all
the planned projects were to be completed, China would be converting 10 percent
of the coal produced in the world into synthetic natural gas, gasoline and
chemicals. The larger plants will use more than 20,000 pumps each.
China continues to build new coal-fired power plants at the rate of 50,000 MW
per year. Existing power plants are being retrofitted with NOx
control. These retrofits require pumps for ammonia injection.
Expenditures for flue gas desulfurization are larger than the expenditures at
all the countries of Europe combined. These systems require both water and
slurry pumps.
The infrastructure investment also continues at a high pace. New municipal
drinking water and municipal wastewater plants are accommodating the migrants to
the cities. The construction of generic pharmaceutical plants by
international companies is also fueling the pump market growth. China is also a
leading purchaser of equipment for semiconductor and other electronic plants.
For more information on Pumps World Market, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/116-n019
U.S. Market for Gas Turbine System Components Shaped By Regulations and
Economics
Some utilities will have to build new gas turbine plants and retire coal-fired
power plants just to meet the new CO2 limits. Some new gas turbine
plants will not include major components because they will be constructed at
existing coal-fired power plants which will be retired. New components
will be sold to existing gas turbine plants which were formerly operated just
for peaking purposes and will now be operated under base load conditions.
These activities are chronicled in Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Supplier
Program published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
Ameren says it will need to add 1,200 MW of combined cycle natural gas
generation by 2020 in order to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s
proposal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions linked to climate change. While the
utility says its internal plans already called for more natural gas, it said the
EPA proposal’s timeline would require more new power plants sooner than
necessary and lead to rate hikes of 10 to 15 percent by 2020.
The new gas-fired power plants would come online around the same time Ameren
plans to retire its coal-fired 840-MW Meramec power plant in south St. Louis
County. But that retirement wouldn’t reduce the utility’s rate of carbon
emissions without new, lower-carbon generation offsetting it. Building that
amount of new capacity would cost roughly $2 billion and require at least four
combined cycle gas-fired power plants.
The decision to build gas turbine plants at existing coal sites to some extent
is influenced by alternative choices. The Xcel Black Dog Minnesota plant is an
example. Calpine is countering the proposal to replace 235 MW of coal capacity
at this plant with gas turbines by proposing to expand the Mankato plant by 350
MW.
Kentucky Cane Run 7 coal-fired power plant will be replaced by Siemens
SGT5-5000F turbines which will generate 660 MW in a Black & Veatch design and
build project. With more than 100 coal-fired power plants scheduled for
retirement, the question arises as to how much of the existing plant can
continue to be used with the switch to gas. In some cases there is just a fuel
switch and no change to the balance of plant. Where a new turbine is installed,
the existing cooling, boiler feed water and wastewater systems are often more
than adequate for the new conditions.
The Florida Power Crystal River coal plants 1&2 will be retired when the first
820 MW of the 1640 MW combined cycle plant comes on line in 2018.
Coal is not the only fuel being replaced with GTCC. Some oil-fired plants
are being retired. There is even a biomass plant considering a switch to gas.
Southern Power's biomass plant in Sacul, Texas was no sooner in operation in
2012 that competition from natural gas surfaced. A guaranteed 20-year contract
with the City of Austin keeps the plant open even though the city is buying
primarily cheaper natural gas. Southern Power wants to remain competitive,
potentially at the Sacul site. “So ultimately we'll build for our
customers needs, but the applications speak to a gas-fired facility because
there's piping in that area available,” said Jeannice Hall, the senior media
relations strategist with Southern Company.
For more information on the
Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Supplier Program,
click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/28-energy/610-59ei.
Headlines for Utility E-Alert –September 12, 2014
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1191 – September 12, 2014
Table of Contents
COAL - US
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Dynegy MATS Controls
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Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation
to meet MATS
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Met Announces Licensee WFGD Awards in China
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Emerson Process
Management named Contractor for Comprehensive Controls Replacement Project
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Compromise Proposal
for Cholla Coal-fired Power Plant in Arizona
COAL – WORLD
GAS/OIL – US
GAS/OIL - WORLD
NUCLEAR
BUSINESS
HOT TOPIC HOUR
For more information on the Utility Tracking System, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/2-uncategorised/89-42ei
“Water Treatment
Chemicals for Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plants” - Hot Topic Webinar on
September 25 at 10 a.m.
Central
This webinar will be both
organizational and informative. It is all part of a whole knowledge system for
gas turbine combined cycle plant operators -
Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Decisions.
The free website
and periodic webinars empower the operators to buy the best products rather than
the most familiar or least expensive.
The webinar on the 25th
will try to answer the question: What are the
most important and difficult
decisions you will have to make regarding treatment chemicals? On August
28 we conducted a webinar on
Degasification and Demineralization.
One of the discussions was on
Improving Silica Removal by EDI and GTM by Michael Snow, Snowpure.
Is there a need
for a treatment chemical to compliment the EDI and GTM?
Another discussion was on
Control of Flow-Accelerated Corrosion in Steam Generators by Brad Buecker,
Kiewit - Hot Topic Hour 8-28-14. Is there chemical treatment to
reduce FAC as well?
Panelists:
Jeffrey Tate,
President of Agape Water Solutions
Roger Light,
Ultrapure Water Specialist at Dow Chemical
Colleen M. Layman,
Water Specialist at HDR Engineering, Inc.
Brad Buecker,
Specialist/Process at Kiewit Power Engineers
Tom Muilenberg,
Senior Manager, Industrial Sales at MIOX Corporation
Daniel C. Sampson,
Principal Consultant Power/Water/Wastewater at WorleyParsons , Inc./ Energy &
Chemical
These are the types of
pertinent questions that the operators want answered. Others would be:
With fast start HRSGS and
constant cycling what chemical additions will counter some of the negative
consequences of this operating mode?
If use ACC instead of wet
cooling and have increased iron content how do you solve this problem?
What are the water chemistry
issues facing GTCC operators which are unique to this type of power generation?
What are the chemical
treatment needs if zero liquid discharge technology is mandated?
What are the chemical
treatment recommendations if treated municipal wastewater is selected for the
cooling or even the boiler feedwater?
How do you keep fogging
nozzles from plugging and also prevent introduction of contaminants which will
cause turbine blade build up?
What other questions are GTCC
operators asking? This webinar is free for power plants?
Click
here to view schedule and register
McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration
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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
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non-subscribers.
See below for information on upcoming Hot Topic Hours. We welcome your input
relative to suggested additions.
SUBJECT |
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September |
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25 |
Power Plant Water Treatment
Chemicals |
October |
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2 |
Precipitator Improvements |
16 |
Power Plant CEMS |
23 |
Sediment Removal and Remediation |
30 |
Coal-fired Power Plant NOx
Reduction Innovations |
November |
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6 |
Power Plant Cooling |
13 |
Boiler Feedwater Treatment |
December |
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18 |
Power Plant Pump Innovations |
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