AIR & WATER MONITORING

NEWSLETTER  

October 2012
No. 396

 Table of Contents

HOT TOPICS

• Monitoring Topics Covered in August 24 Hot Topic Hour
• On-line Boiler Monitoring Improves Efficiency and Reduces Pollutants – Hot Topic Hour on September 13
• “Coal-fired Boiler Optimization” Hot Topic on September 27, 2012

REGULATORY

• Court Requires Reports from EPA on MATS Reconsideration
• Canada Sets GHG Emission Standard for New Coal-Fired Units and Units Operating Beyond 50-Year Useful Life
• Analysis: U.S., U.K. and Canada Converging on GHG Emission Standard of 1000 lb CO₂e/MWh
• EPA Proposes to Revise the NAAQS for Fine Particles
• DEP Launches Long-Term Marcellus Shale Air Monitoring Study in Southwestern Pennsylvania
• Clean Air Action Plans Announced by Ports
• Cross-State Air Decision Will Have Only Minor Impact on the Equipment Market

MARKETS

• 56,000 Individual Air and Water Monitoring Forecasts Are Now Included in Air and Water Monitoring:  World Markets

§  France is Facing Power Shortages by 2016

• $5.5 Billion Market for NO_x Control Systems Next Year
• China Will Buy More NO_x Catalyst Than the Rest of the World Combined
• Shipping Carriers Evergreen, Hamburg Süd North America, Hapag-Lloyd AG, Maersk Line, Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Yang Ming are First to Sign on to Port of Los Angeles Clean Ship Incentive Program
• Refinery Announces $250 Million Expansion to Cut Emissions
• Large Treatment and Flow Control Companies Expect to Grow 5.2 Percent in 2013
• Asia Will Account for 45 Percent of the Air and Water Monitoring Market Next Year

INDUSTRY NEWS

• GE Acquires PRESENS, Norway-Based Supplier of Industrial Sensor
• Metso’s State-of-the-Art Transmitter Technology Contributes to the Efficiency and Profitability of Chinese Paper Mills
• Research Facility Opened in Georgia to Study Cooling Water Needs for Power Plants
• Yokogawa Electric to supply Control Systems for Mong Duong 2 in Vietnam
• Metso’s Automation Technologies Reduces Emissions and Saves Money at Grant Town Power Plant
• Alstom to Retrofit Control Systems at EDF Nuclear Plants
• ABB to Supply Equipment for 290 MW Yunus Emre Power Plant in Turkey
• International Specialization Not Nationalism for the Water Industry
• Niche Experts and Decisive Classification Will Boost the U.S. and World Economies
• FilterSense Multi-Channel Particulate Monitor Monitors Fabric Filter
• Siemens Optimizes Furnace Operation for SDI Roanoke with Holistic Process Model Lomas Offgas Monitoring
• Siemens Modular Basic Device for Extractive Gas Analysis Permits Selection of Very Small Measuring Ranges
• Namibian Smelter’s Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Are Now Monitored
• Shale Gas Emissions in the U.K. Monitored
• Onset Introduces Dissolved Oxygen Data Logger
• LGR Sells Five N₂O/CO Analyzers to the California Air Resources Board
• Airgas SmartTag Cylinder Gas Monitoring Introduced