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The "Air Pollution Management" Newsletter

April 2013
No. 420

TABLE OF CONTENTS

HOT TOPICS

·         "NO_x Control for Gas Turbines" was Hot Topic Hour on Thursday, February 14, 2013

·         "Implementation of the Utility MACT Rule" - Hot Topic Hour on Thursday, February 28, 2013

REGULATIONS

·         Final Rules Issued for Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units

·         EPA Issues Final Action on Reconsideration for Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters

MARKETS

·         Growth of the Mercury Reduction Market Hard to Predict

·         Huge Variable in Fabric Filter Market Depending on Power Regulations in U.S. and China

·         Scrubber Revenues to Approach $6.9 Billion in 2014

·         China is the Leading Purchaser of Air Pollution Control Equipment

·         Cross-flow Membrane Revenues to Exceed $10 Billion for 2014

·         NO_x Control Market will be $5.5 Billion in 2014

·         Coal-fired Power Plant Retirements Will be Significant but Not a Dominant Factor in Future Capital Expenditures

·         The U.S. and Europe are Embarked on Hundreds of Projects to Automate and Control Coal-fired Power Plants

·         Sales of New Precipitator Systems will Exceed $5.6 Billion in Asia in 2013

·         U.S. Cement Industry will spend $685 Million/yr for Air Pollution Control in 2013-15

INDUSTRY NEWS

·         BP will Spend $300 Million for Flares and other Air Improvement Measurements

·         Clarcor Reports Good Results for Industrial Environmental Filtration Segment

·         MEGTEC Systems, Inc. Acquires TurboSonic Technologies, Inc.

·         CECO Environmental Announces New Orders Totaling $11.4 Million

·         Strategic Alliance Advances Biomass Initiatives

·         CECO Environmental Announces Acquisition of Aarding Thermal Acoustics B.V.

·         Mitsubishi Plastics Enters into NO_x Exhaust Gas Catalyst Manufacturing

·         Johnson Matthey SEC's Sales of Gas Turbine CO Oxidation Catalyst Exceeds 2 GW in Two Years

·         CB&I Completes Acquisition of The Shaw Group