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· McIlvaine is Writing Monthly Feature Articles for Valve World and also Presenting at the Valve World Conference in Houston
· Hundreds of Pages of Monthly Updates in Valves: World Markets
· Nuclear Power Plants Will Spend $1.6 Billion for Valves Next Year
McIlvaine is writing monthly feature articles for Valve World and also presenting at the Valve World Conference in Houston
McIlvaine is writing articles in Valve World (the newspaper not the magazine). A recent one covered nuclear valves. The upcoming article will cover fugitive emissions. Bob McIlvaine will be speaking at the conference in the part of the program which will be held in the exhibit area. If you would like to talk to him during the conference you can reach him by cell phone at 847 226 2391.
Hundreds of Pages of Monthly Updates in Industrial Valves: World Markets
There is a general monthly update with product and financial news. There are also updates in each of the industry chapters. Here are the general headlines in April:
VALVES WORLD MARKET
UPDATE
April, 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
New Facilities
Automation Technology Expands Presence to UK
Pentair Valves & Controls Opens New Australian Assembly Center
Joint Venture Ends
Flowserve and Larsen & Toubro Divide Up Indian Joint Venture
Metso Ends Chinese Joint Venture and Adds to Chinese Manufacturing Plant
Bankruptcy
Tyco Fire and Suppression Yarway Files Bankruptcy
Chinese Nuclear Approval
Curtiss-Wright Announces Valves Meet Chinese Nuclear Safety Approval
Financials
Pentair Reports Flat First Quarter Results
BEL Valves First Made Subsea Valves 20 Years Ago
Flowserve Reports First Quarter Sales Up 2 Percent
Weir Reports 2012 Results Up 12 Percent
People
DeZurik Appoints New President and COO
Projects
Bestobell Wins Contract for South Korean LNG Carrier
Velan Supplying Globe Valves to Chinese Nuclear Reactor
ARI Valves Supplied to South African Pipeline
Emerson Automation System and Fisher Control Valves Supplied to French Waste and Biomass Power Station
Emerson Also Chosen to Supply Valves to Algerian Refinery
Rotork Supplies Actuators for Second Spanish Solar Power Plant
Metso Valves Selected by Russian Refinery
Dual Valve Australasia Builds Their Largest Knife Gate Valve
New Products
Mokveld Develops New Subsea Anti-Surge Control Valve
Vindum Engineering Releases New High-Pressure Valve Series
WORLD WATER AND WASTEWATER DESALINATION
INDUSTRY NEWS
Pall Corp to Present Membrane Filtration Solutions for Mine Operations
Dow Water & Process Solutions to Partner With Ahlstrom For Clean, Safe Drinking Water Solutions
Amiad Water Revenue Rises 12 Percent on Australia Contracts, Irrigation
Hyflux Signs China Water Project Collaboration Memos for Yunnan
Veolia Wins LNG Water Treatment Contract
Korean Construction Giant Establishes U.S. Base
BASF Restructures to More Efficiently Handle Water Opportunities
Saudi Arabia Implements Massive Water Strategy
The Desert Kingdom; Desalination from Oil Power to Solar Power?
NEW PLANT CONSTRUCTION NEWS
New Equipment for Cypress Desalination Plant under Construction
Desalination Comes of Age with Poseidon Plant
Parsons Lands SAWS Brackish Water Desalination Job
Delays Over for Tarpon Springs Desalination Plant
TECHNOLOGY/NEW PRODUCT NEWS
Lockheed Martin says this New Desalination Technology is an Industry Game-Changer
Award for Fine Particle Filter
Many projects are detailed in monthly updates under Industry Analysis in the Report’s Chapters.
CHEMICALS
ETHANOL
FOOD & BEVERAGE
METALWORKING
MINING
OIL & GAS
OTHER ELECTRONICS
PHARMACEUTICAL / BIOTECH
PULP & PAPER
REFINERIES
SEMICONDUCTOR
For more information on Industrial Valves: World Markets, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71#n028
Nuclear Power Plants Will Spend $1.6 Billion for Valves Next Year
Nuclear power plants use thousands of valves. Older power plants need to replace and repair valves and in some cases to upgrade them to meet new safety standards. This has created a world market which will exceed $1.6 billion in 2014. This is the conclusion reached in the new McIlvaine report, Nuclear Power Plant Valve Forecast and Analysis.
The Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan in March 2011 has reshaped the nuclear power industry. Some countries halted construction for further review. Others decided to phase out nuclear power. A number of countries are now again moving forward.
China is currently leading the world with approximately 26 new nuclear reactors under construction or planned for near-term construction. In January 2013, China started up the first new nuclear reactor to become commercial since Fukishima. Worldwide, there are close to 60 reactors in construction or near construction.
The total valve investment in a typical 1,000 MW nuclear power plant is in excess of $80 million. There is some variation from design to design. Nuclear power plants of either PWR or BWR design include more than 5,000 valves per installation. The valve applications include safety, control and isolation functions, among others. More than 500 valves are classified as “safety” valves with the balance classified as “non-safety.” These valves reflect virtually all valve types and sizes including ball, gate, globe, butterfly, check, plug, poppet, squib and others. Valve sizes range from fractions of a gallon per minute for chemical feed regulation to many thousands of gallons per minute for controlling reactor cooling and condenser cooling.
The future for nuclear power may depend on the trajectory of continuous-improvement in reactor designs already established by the major suppliers including Areva, GE, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Westinghouse and others sourced from Canada, Russia, China and South Korea. The two most prominent reactor types today are pressurized water reactors (PWRs) and boiling water reactors (BWRs). Currently, the PWR predominates in terms of installed and planned megawatts. Both reactor types have been significantly improved in terms of design simplicity and safety features relative to the early designs of the 1960s and 1970s. Improvement in valve design has kept pace with the plant improvements.
For more information on: Nuclear Power Plant Valve Forecast and Analysis, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=71#n241i
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