Cleanroom

Cleanroom/Ultrapure Water Insights
No. 8 August 2013

WELCOME

This bi-weekly Cleanroom/Ultrapure Water Insight provides excerpts from the McIlvaine Cleanroom and Ultrapure Water World Markets. It also provides excerpts from related publications. The market report is conceived as the traffic control on a 4 Lane Knowledge Bridge to the purchasers and specifiers.

Sales of modular cleanrooms, walls, floors, filters, devices and other cleanroom hardware will exceed $4.3 billion in 2014. This is the most recent forecast appearing in World Cleanroom Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Subject	2014
Total	4,349
Devices	756
Engineering & Design	449
Floors	318
HVAC	1,587
Monitoring	290
New & Prefilters	289
Replacement Filters	372
Walls	288

The market for devices is growing faster than the other segments. The reason is that mini-environments are continuing to take market share away from the ballroom cleanrooms. There is considerable penetration in the semiconductor industry and a growing interest for this concept in the pharmaceutical industry.

The minienvironment encloses the product. The cleanroom workers are outside the enclosure and, therefore, are not a source of contamination. The result is a much cleaner space and the use of less air and energy.

The limitations of this approach are the requirements to automate the process, so that the worker does not have to be in contact with the product during processing.

There are more than 30 new municipal wastewater projects initiated per week in the U.S. and Canada according to the McIlvaine Company who tracks these projects in North America Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facilities and People. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Many of these projects are active for five years or more. This results in thousands of active projects at any one point in time. These projects range from modifications to small plants to construction of new large 400 mgd facilities. The new facilities are generally located in the south and west and are to meet the population expansion. However, new plants are being slated to replace older plants in regions where the population is not growing.

One major project is to replace a plant which is more than 100 years old and has only been modified to extend its life. In general, replacing old plants with new ones results in the lowest overall cost. Many old plants do not have the modern digital controls which can provide greater efficiency. Newer equipment designs such as membrane contactors have only been available for the last twenty years.

Odor control is another aspect which is much more cost effectively accomplished with a new plant. The cost of odor control is more a function of the air volume treated than the concentration of contaminant. Older plants require much more capture air than new ones which are designed with air minimization as a goal.

In the future there will be more projects directed at reusing municipal treated wastewater. There are at least ten current projects where combined cycle power plants are being built with the intention of using the discharge from the local MWTP.

One area where the projects are mostly at a small scale is the analysis and removal of contaminant of emerging concern (CEC). There is work going on to evaluate pharmaceuticals and personal care products. Southern California is concerned about the environmental impact of more than one billion gallons of treated wastewater which is discharged daily into the ocean from municipalities.

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In order to meet tough regulations in the U.S. technology developers have made great strides in creating low cost routes to achieve mercury removal from power plant exhausts. The cost is especially low if the plant already has a scrubber. China is installing scrubbers on nearly all its plants. As a result China can remove mercury with just a tiny percent increase in its air pollution control investment and operating cost.

There have been some very significant recent breakthroughs which need to be communicated to the Chinese policy makers. To this end, McIlvaine conducted a webinar last week in Mandarin Chinese with two FGD experts. A presentation on removal technology was made by Bobby Chen of CBI Shaw. Questions and discussion were provided by Shiaw Tseng of Graymont. This presentation in Mandarin is available as a recording in the McIlvaine Global Decisions Orchard and on YouTube.

U.S. power plants emitted 100,000 lbs of mercury per year prior to the regulations. By 2016 emissions will have been reduced by more than 80,000 lbs per year. China operates four times as many coal-fired boilers as the U.S., and five times as many cement plants. The potential Chinese reductions are much more significant than those in the U.S. Mercury is a world traveler. Gold mines in Brazil are emitting mercury which has been tracked to the arctic, so this is a global problem and needs a global solution. China has demonstrated a willingness to spend a great deal to improve the environment, so it is likely that they will take advantage of this opportunity when the low cost and ease of achieving the reduction are made clear.

For more information on other breakthroughs in power plant air quality improvement, click on: Power Plant Air Quality Decisions

These sales leads are part of Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects and are issued bi-weekly. As a subscriber to World Cleanroom Markets or Ultrapure Water World Markets you receive a 30 percent discount for this service.

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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
Harford County gas turbine power plant-Exelon	8/1/2013	MD	Unknown
Chouteau power plant-Grand River Authority	8/1/2013	OK	2017
Jessup possible power plant-Invenergy	8/1/2013	PA	Unknown
Wisconsin Public Service power plant	8/1/2013	WI	2019
Jazan IGCC power plant-Saudi Aramco	11/1/2012	Saudi Arabia	2016
Brunswick County power plant-Dominion Virginia Power	2/1/2012	VA	2016
Jamaica Public Service Co. combined cycle power project	12/1/2011	Jamaica	Unknown
Bushehr expansion	6/1/2009	Iran	Unknown
Fangchenggang 1,2 (Hongsha)-China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp.	2/1/2009	China	2016
Opole expansion-Polska Grupa Energetyczna	2/1/2009	Poland	2018
Ostrovetsky district--Belarus nuclear power plant	6/1/2007	Belarus	2018
Delimara combined cycle expansion-Malta Resources Authority	1/1/2007	Malta	2015
Los Esteros Phase II-Calpine	5/1/2004	CA	2013
Russell City Energy Center combined cycle plant-Calpine	2/1/2001	CA	2013
Southaven combined cycle-Southaven Power		MS	2002

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.