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China is planning investments and adjusting regulations which will result in very large opportunities for suppliers of flow control and treatment equipment. These opportunities are analyzed in Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com). There are four opportunities which stand out because of their size and the opportunity for innovative technologies.

Two of the opportunities are related to the decision to rely on coal for future energy needs. This decision is coupled with a commitment to reduce emissions from coal-fired generators. China has already retrofitted systems to remove SO₂ from existing power plants. It is now making a $40 billion commitment to provide 90 percent NO_x reduction from these same power plants. China will be operating more than 50 percent of the world’s coal-fired SCR systems by 2020.

China can be likened to Los Angeles in terms of the challenges it faces relative to ambient particulate. Topography magnifies the impact of fine particulate emissions for critical areas such as Beijing and many major cities. The new limits on particulate emissions from coal-fired power plants and other sources will create new markets for fabric filters and other innovative technology to compete with the standard electrostatic precipitators.

China has been far behind the rest of the world in terms of sophisticated pharmaceuticals production. Plants producing branded pharmaceuticals use water of extreme purity. This in turn requires special pumps, valves and treatment equipment. Air circulating in production areas has to be fifty times cleaner than ambient air.

The world’s largest pharmaceutical companies have decided to enter the generic market by building large facilities in Asia. Many of the new facilities are being constructed in China. They include research as well as production facilities. As a result, China will be both a large market and one receptive to innovations for suppliers of flow control and treatment products.

Rainfall per capita in China is only 25 percent as high as the world average. Furthermore, the distribution is uneven. There are many arid areas. A new trend is for construction of industrial facilities in areas where transcontinental rail shipping is convenient as opposed to ocean transport. This combination of factors will be putting great stress on water resources.

Treated municipal wastewater will increasingly be used for industrial, commercial and non potable residential purposes. Industrial plants will reuse rather than discharge wastewater. This trend will also generate billions of dollars in annual revenue for flow control and treatment companies.

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

Project Title	First Entry Date	Location	Startup date
Inchaban combined cycle-Jacobson Jelco Ghana Ltd.	9/1/2013	Ghana	2016
Reva power plant-Narmada Hydroelectric Dev. Corp.	9/1/2013	India	Unknown
Jindal Power & Steel power plant in Liberia	9/1/2013	Liberia	2017
Oloronshogo power plant	9/1/2013	Nigeria	Unknown
Yajva combined cycle-OJSC EON	9/1/2013	Russia	2011
Rabigh gas turbine expansion -Saudi Electricity Co	9/1/2013	Saudi Arabia	Unknown
Turkmenabat fast track gas turbine power plant	9/1/2013	Turkmenistan	2014
Mary fast track gas turbine power plant	9/1/2013	Turkmenistan	2013
Ashgabat fast track gas turbine power plant	9/1/2013	Turkmenistan	2013
Shahjibazar combined cycle power plant	4/1/2013	Bangladesh	2015
Yangon combined cycle power plant	6/1/2012	Myanmar	2015
Bedhabahal power plant-Odisha Thermal Power Corp.	4/1/2012	India	Unknown
Jamaica Public Service Co. combined cycle power project	12/1/2011	Jamaica	Unknown
Salka village power plant-Chhattisgarh Power Ltd	7/1/2011	India	unknown
Champion site power plant-Robinson Power	6/1/2011	PA	Unknown
Barethi power plant-National Thermal Power Corp.	10/1/2010	India	2017
Rampal power plant-Power Development Board/NTPC	9/1/2010	Bangladesh	Unknown
Karachi Coastal Power-	9/1/2010	Pakistan	Unknown
Calaca CFB expansion-Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Dev./AC Holdings	8/1/2010	Philippines	2016
Hanhikivi--Fennovoima nuclear power project	5/1/2010	Finland	2024
Jamshoro-Water and Power Development Authority	5/1/2010	Pakistan	2016
Chapainawabganj power plant-Bangladesh Power Development Board	4/1/2010	Bangladesh	Unknown
Gadarwara supercritical power plant -NTPC	4/1/2010	India	2017
Talimarjan combined cycle power plant-Uzbekenergo	4/1/2010	Uzbekistan	2016
Loudoun (Stonewall) gas turbine power plant-Green Energy Partners/Panda	4/1/2010	VA	2017
Samsun combined cycle power plant-OMV	2/1/2010	Turkey	2013
Ghorasal peaking power plant	9/1/2009	Bangladesh	Unknown
Chandrapur power plant-CESC (RPG)	9/1/2009	India	2014
Rajasthan 7 and 8 nuclear power plant-Nuclear Power Corp. of India	9/1/2009	India	2017
Lungmen nuclear power plant-TaiPower	9/1/2009	Taiwan	2017

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.