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Filtration and Centrifugation Insights
No. 8 August 2013

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This bi-weekly Filtration and Centrifugation Insight provides excerpts from the McIlvaine Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets and Sedimentation/Centrifugation 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.

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

Oil and Gas Project Tracking is Available at a Discount to Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets and Sedimentation/Centrifugation World Markets Subscribers

These sales leads are part of Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects, and are issued bi-weekly. As a subscriber to Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets and Sedimentation/Centrifugation World Markets, you receive a 30 percent discount for this service.

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.