·        Headlines for the July 22, 2011 – Utility E Alert

·        $6.1 Billion Precipitator Market This Year

·        Decisive Classification is the Key to Economic Growth

Here are the Headlines for the July 22, 2011 – Utility E Alert

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1034 – July 22, 2011

Table of Contents

COAL – US 

§  PGE Reaches Emissions Deal

§  EERC Mercury Control Technology Installed at Power Plant

§  Ruling Held Up on Power Plant Near Grand Canyon

§  D.E. Karn (MI) Coal-fired Power Plant to Receive Emissions Control Upgrades

COAL – WORLD

§  SPX to Provide Cooling Tower for 2x300 MW Datang Wu’an Power Plant in China

§  Imported Coal Issues Postpone Part of Ratnagiri Plant Expansion

GAS / OIL – US

§  FPL to Demolish Port Everglades, FL Power Plant

§  PSEG Power Announces Closing on Sale of Odessa Gas-fired Facility

GAS / OIL – WORLD

§  Oman Signs 2,000 MW Power Plant Deal    

§  Gas-fired Power Plant Site Location Ongoing

CO₂

§  Texas Clean Energy Project Takes Step Forward with CO₂ Sales Agreement 

§  ZAK Withdraws from Polish Zero-Emission Venture, Putting Future of Project in Jeopardy 

§  British Institute to Invest £23.5 Million in CCS Pilot Plant  

§  New Porous Material Could Reduce Cost of Carbon Capture

 BIOMASS

§  Final Air Permit Granted to Wolverine Power for 2x300 MW Coal / Biomass Plant

§  New Zealand Biomass Power Plant Gets Green Light

NUCLEAR

§  Vermont Yankee Loses Bid to Remain Open as Lawsuit Proceeds

§  Duke Energy Seeks Five to Ten Percent Share of Proposed $10 Billion Nuclear Power Plant

§  Nuclear Power Plant Delayed Until 2016, EDF Says

BUSINESS

• Ipsa Finds Buyers for Four Gas Turbines
• Fuel Tech Awarded $6.9 Million in Air Pollution Control Orders
• Power Plant Materials Development is the Key to Low Cost Clean Electricity

HOT TOPIC HOUR

• “Cost of Retrofit Air Pollution Control vs. New Coal-fired Boilers” is Hot Topic on Thursday, July 28, 2011
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

For more information on the Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System, click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/energy.html#42ei.

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$6.1 Billion Precipitator Market This Year

Despite some loss of market share to fabric filters, the world electrostatic precipitator industry will enjoy sales of over $6 billion this year.  This is the conclusion in the continually updated online, Electrostatic Precipitator: World Markets, published by the McIlvaine Company.

World Precipitator Market ($ Millions-System Type)

Subject                          2011

 Dry                             5,425.4

 Wet                                685.1

 Total                           6,110.5

The future opportunities in electrostatic precipitation are greater in the service and upgrade segment than in equipment for greenfield plants.

Electrostatic precipitators have traditionally been the primary particulate removal device for coal-fired power plants, cement kilns, and certain furnace applications. However, other technologies have been developed and are making inroads.

The market for electrostatic precipitators is growing despite the fact that fabric filters are taking an ever increasing market share. Fortunately, the total market is growing fast enough to compensate for the share losses, but this is primarily due to upgrades to the installed base. There is a distinction between sales of new equipment and sales of parts and services.  Whereas the sales of new precipitators are lower than the sales of fabric filters, the sales of parts and services are larger.

Precipitator parts and service is potentially a $4.5 billion/yr business.  $1.5 billion is parts and $3 billion is operation and maintenance.  However, most of this O&M is furnished directly by the owner, reducing the outside service contracting presently to just $300 million/yr.

Some big companies have entered the field.  Siemens purchased Wheelabrator who has been a supplier of complete precipitator systems for many decades.  GE sold its precipitator upgrade and repair business to Babcock &Wilcox.

Two factors, the emergence of the Chinese suppliers and the entry into the market of the largest international companies, have transformed the market. The world leaders of 20 years ago (Research Cottrell and Western Precipitation) are no longer independent U.S. companies.

The market for wet precipitators is smaller but has much higher growth potential than for dry precipitators.  Wet precipitators were first used to capture sulfuric acid mist from metal mining and smelting operations. The installation of catalytic NO_x control systems on power plants has resulted in the increase of SO₃.  As a result, many power plants in the U.S. are faced with SO₃ reduction requirements.

Wet precipitators will achieve 90 percent reduction in SO₃, actually in the resultant H₂SO₄ mist. They are expensive at $50/kW -$ 100/kW, but they are effective.  As a result, a number of new power plants under construction will utilize wet precipitators following the scrubber.

East Asia will be the biggest market followed by West Asia.

Regional Precipitator Markets ($ Millions)

For more information on Electrostatic Precipitator: World Markets, click on: 

http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/air.html#n018.

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Decisive Classification is the Key to Economic Growth

The U.S. economy is growing too slowly. It is not a lack of opportunity; it is the failure to communicate that opportunity.  How can that be when the amount of available information is doubling every year or two?  The problem is that our ability to assimilate information is static. We cannot double the time to make decisions. We have to find a way to plow through the mountain of information more effectively.

The solution is “Decisive Classification.”  It not only provides a quicker route to the relevant information but eliminates the need for part of the investigative sequence.  This new tool is available from the McIlvaine Company free of charge.  It is based on four decades of research on better ways to convert information to knowledge and knowledge to more effective decisions. The system can be used to organize corporate websites and site maps and provide indices for publishers and conference organizers. 

All decision making is a series of classifications in which one alternative is determined to be better than the others.   Decisive Classification provides the best way to determine the sequence and select the alternatives.  Here are the ways it contributes:

·        Provides the best sequence

The best sequence may not be the conventional one.  Here is an example.  An engineer must decide on a reagent, a scrubber and a pump for a power plant desulfurization system. Normally the pump is an afterthought and should be last in the sequence.  But it turns out that of the thousands of pump companies only a handful of companies make pumps big enough if certain reagent and scrubber type are chosen.  So Decisive Classification benefits from the experience of others to alert the specifier to a better sequence.  It also provides the listing of the few companies in the world who can address the one alternative.

·        Quickly and accurately identifies the application

The U.S. NAICS code is used to identify the industry.  A parent child software program along with diagrams provide a precise description of the application.

·        Provide the hierarchy of product alternatives

There are many scrubber suppliers with many different designs but there are really only four categories which should be considered for power plant desulfurization.

·        Provide standardization of terminology in multiple languages

Dosing and metering are both used to describe the same function.  Standardizing on one or the other is highly desirable for English speakers.  It is even more important for those for whom English is not their primary language. 

·        Accurate numerical identification of corporations

Each financial entity is assigned a corporate number which links to the company name in Latin and Mandarin characters.

·        Most meaningful geographic  segmentation

For most business decisions, the segmentation of the world into 70 countries and 10 subregions to cover the 150 smaller countries results in 80 meaningful entities which can be aggregated into regions and continental entities.

McIlvaine is working with industry associations to standardize on application classifications. It is working with product oriented associations to standardize on product classifications.  Contributions and suggestions are encouraged.  You can access the “Decisive Classification” at:  Global Knowledge Orchard http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/Decision_Tree/subscriber/Tree/Default.htm.

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