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The "Air Pollution Management" Newsletter

August 2012
No. 412

TABLE OF CONTENTS

HOT TOPIC

·         "New Developments Could Improve Cost/Efficiency Ratio for Power Plant Air Pollution Control" - Hot Topic on July 21

FINANCIALS

·         TurboSonic Technologies Reports Third Quarter Operating Results

·         Xebec Announces 2012 First Quarter Operating Results

MARKETS

·         Power Plant Air Pollution Orders to Exceed $21 Billion This Year

·         Industrial Valve Sales Will Exceed $55 Billion Next Year

·         New Developments in Power Plant Air Pollution Control Are Keeping Pace with Regulatory Changes and Health Determinations

·         Cement Industry Fluid/Gas Treatment and Control Purchases Downgraded from $10.5 Billion in 2012 to $8.4 Billion

·         Semiconductor Industry to Spend $2.3 Billion this Year for Flow Control and Treatment Products

·         $1 Billion Market for Chemicals to Capture Mercury

·         World Industrial and Municipal Flow Control Revenues Will Exceed $90 Billion this Year

·         Air Pollution Control Revenues Will be $35 Billion this Year

·         $6.4 Billion European Air Pollution Control Market Driven by Regulations

·         Air and Water Monitoring Terms - Decisive Classification Needed

·         World Scrubber Market to Exceed $6.5 Billion Next Year

·         Ten Top Growth Markets in Air, Water and Energy

·         U.S. Industrial Air Emitters to Spend $1 Billion/yr for Air Pollution Control over the Next Five Years on more than 2000 Specific Projects

REGULATIONS

·         Amendments to Standards of Performance for Process Heaters and Flares at Petroleum Refineries Issued

·         Revisions Made to New Source Performance Standards for Nitric Acid Plants

·         EPA Updates Clean Air Act Requirements for Gas Stations to Reflect New Vehicle Technologies

ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

·         BP Agrees to Add more than $400 Million in Pollution Controls at Indiana Refinery and Pay $8 Million Clean Air Act Penalty

·         Colorado-based QEP Field Services Agrees to Pay $4 Million and Install Pollution Controls to Resolve Alleged Violations of the Clean Air Act

·         EPA Settles Clean Air Act Cases Against Six DC Gas Stations

INDUSTRY NEWS

·         Babcock & Wilcox Sales Were just under $3 Billion Last Year