·        Thousands of Projects Worth Hundreds of $ Billions in Booming Oil and Gas Industry

·        Mining Air Pollution Control Purchases to Exceed $2 Billion This Year

·        Air & Water Pollution Monitoring World Markets Headlines for March 2013

·        Industrial Boiler Update Headlines April 2013

·        Use of Biogas Increases Around the World

·        “Mercury Measurement and Control – Part 2” is “Hot Topic Hour” on April 11, 2013 at 10 a.m. (DST)

·        Headlines for the March 29, 2013 - Utility E-Alert 

·        McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

Thousands of Projects Worth Hundreds of $ Billions in Booming Oil and Gas Industry

Depending on the definition, the number of opportunities in the oil and gas sector ranges from a few thousand to over one million.  At the top end, there are single projects where the investment will exceed $10 billion. This is the conclusion reached in Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Existing gas and oil wells need pumps, valves, compressors, instrumentation and control equipment. Accuracy is needed due to the custody transfer and value of the products. Despite the large number of existing wells, the major capital investment is in a relatively small number of large projects.

Some of the investments in the oil gas industry are even larger than the investment in a new supercritical coal-fired power plant. The gas-to-liquids plant now underway in Louisiana is estimated to cost between $11 billion and $14 billion. New refineries, LNG and tars sands plants are all multibillion dollar expenditures. Much of this is for liquid and gas flow and treatment equipment. In addition, the tar sands plants have big investments in material handling.

With the shale gas and liquids boom there are many projects to separate liquids from gas. Conversion of coal to chemicals is attracting billions of dollars of investment. China is the leader with both direct and indirect gasification processes.

McIlvaine tracks the projects and provides market forecasts in Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects.

For more information on Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects, click on:  http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=72#n049.

Mining Air Pollution Control Purchases to Exceed $2 Billion This Year

Mining companies from Chile to China will spend over $2 billion for air pollution equipment, services and consumables in 2013. This is the conclusion reached in the McIlvaine online report Air Pollution Management.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Nearly $800 million will be spent for new air pollution control systems. $1.3 billion will be spent on parts, service and consumables. The emission sources can be segmented into mechanically generated dust and then a second segment which includes products of combustion and drying.

Mechanically generated dusts are generally captured by fabric filters. At various points in copper, bauxite, coal and iron mining operations, dusty ore is transferred from one process to another. Hoods at the transfer points capture the dust and convey it to fabric filters.  Fabric filters or scrubbers are also utilized in particle reduction processes.

Dryers are significant dust generators. The coal industry uses scrubbers and fabric filters for drying operations. Drying processes are common in various metallic and non-metallic mining operations.

Pelletizing and smelting require more efficient types of air pollution control equipment than are required to capture mechanical dusts. Fabric filters have gained market share from scrubbers which were widely used in previous decades. Fabric filters are more efficient in capturing the sub-micron fumes. As emission limits have tightened, plants have switched to fabric filters to remain in compliance.  Another incentive has been to capture product which otherwise would be lost.  Fabric filters in gold mining operations can capture enough product in a few weeks to offset the investment.

Wet electrostatic precipitators are the choice for capturing the acid mists from copper smelting.  Dry electrostatic precipitators are used to treat the exhausts from power boilers at mining operations.

Continuous measurement of opacity, NO_x, SO₂ and certain other pollutants is required for many furnace and dryer operations. Advanced process automation of these operations relies on instrumentation at both the inlet and outlet of the processes.

The consumables include bags for the fabric filters.  In a furnace application they are typically replaced every three to four years. Rappers, discharge electrodes and other precipitator components are also periodically replaced.  A number of replacement parts are required for the dust handling systems.

For more information on Air Pollution Management, click on:

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Air & Water Pollution Monitoring World Markets Headlines for March 2013

AIR & WATER
MONITORING NEWSLETTER  

March 2013
No. 401

HOT TOPICS HOURS 

• “NO_x Control for Gas Turbines” was Hot Topic Hour on Thursday, February 14, 2013
• “Monitoring and Controlling Boiler Water/Steam Cycle Chemistry” Hot Topic Hour, February 21, 2013

MARKETS

• 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 Plant
• U.S. Water Utilities Are Embarked on Thousands of Capital Projects
• Instrument and Control Market for Ultrapure Water Will Exceed $468 Million This Year
• Sales of New Precipitator Systems Will Exceed $5.6 Billion in Asia in 2013
• Smart Pumps Will Help Drive Pump Revenues to $46 Billion in 2017
• U.S. Cement Industry Will Spend $685 Million/yr. for Air Pollution Control in 2013-15
• Boosting Air Pollution Export Sales
• Gas Turbine Inlet Filter Market to Exceed $400 Million This Year
• East Asia Will Spend $4.8 Billion on FGD This Year
• Desalination Flow Control and Treatment Revenues to Exceed $9 Billion by 2020

INDUSTRY NEWS

• Automation and Instrumentation at the North East Ohio Regional Sewer District
• BP to Spend More Than $300 Million to Reduce Emissions from Flares, Heaters, and Boilers
• EUEC Was an Active Show for McIlvaine
• Instrumentation Limited of India Orders an Automation System Upgrade from Metso
• Doosan Develops Integrated Monitoring & Control System for Taean Thermal Power Plant
• Xylem Has $617,000-Contract for Climate Change Monitoring and Ecological Forecasting in the Caribbean
• TRC Picks Up GE’s Air Testing Business
• An Independent Supplier is an Option for Gas Turbine Control Retrofits
• Siemens Process Control System Expanded for Cement, Mining and Related Industries
• ON Line, Composite or Grab Samples for Natural Gas
• Interned Hosted SCADA an Answer for Water and Wastewater Utilities
• Ultrasonic Flow Meters Now More Popular in Oil and Gas
• Wireless Sensor Networks Enhance Remote Condition Monitoring
• Pipelines Turn Toward Automation Through Intelligent Technology
• Cone DP Meters Are Popular But Have Calibration Issues
• Coriolis Mass Flow Meters Have Advantages for Bulk Measurement

OptoAcoustic Has Advantages in Gas Measurement

For more information on Air & Water Pollution Monitoring World Markets:  click on:  http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106extsup1.asp

INDUSTRIAL BOILER UPDATE APRIL 2013

Here are the headlines to our April updates of Industrial Boilers. This is part of U.S. Industrial Emitters, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93extsup1.asp

INDUSTRY NEWS

Newmont Experience with 10 Meter Bags Has Been Good

Tri-Mer System Controls Multiple Pollutants

Coverage of Industrial Boilers in the Fabric Filter Newsletter

Coverage of Industrial Boilers in the Scrubber/Adsorber Newsletter

Nationwide has SCR for Industrial Boilers

Council of Industrial Boilers has a Number of Associate Members

Cleaver-Brooks is a Major Supplier of Industrial Boilers

Fluid Bed & Stoker Fired Boiler Operations and Performance Conference - May 20-22, 2013

Detroit Stoker has Lots of Experience with Biomass

PROJECTS

Metso has Order for CHP Plant in Västerås, Sweden

Metso Providing Kuopion Energia in Kuopio, Finland, with Combustor to Burn Pulverized Peat

Metso will supply Jönköping Energi’s Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Plant in Torsvik, Sweden with Biomass Boiler

Metso will Supply PT Cikarang Listiindo in Indonesia with 2 Power Boilers

Metso will Supply Värnamo Energi AB with a Biomass Power Plant

Metso-supplied World’s Largest Biomass Gasification Plant Inaugurated in Finland

Metso to Supply Biomass Power Plant for Vimmerby Energi & Miljö in Sweden for Green Energy Production

Metso to Supply Biomass Power Plant to Bioenergeticheskaya Kompaniya in Russia

Metso to Supply Biomass-Fired Heating Plant for District Heat Production to Savon Voima in Finland

Metso’s Biomass-fired Heating Plant Delivery will increase the Production of Green Energy in Line with Savon Voima’s Strategy

Waupun Replacing Coal-fired Boilers with Gas Turbines

CNIM Selects Metso’s Automation for Waste-to-Energy Plant in Suffolk, UK

Dow to Build Several New Chemical Plants on the U.S. Gulf Coast

Cambria Cogen is one of 20 CFB Combustors Burning Coal Refuse and which may Remove HCl but Increase Mercury

MARKETS

Comparison of Final and Previous Industrial Boiler MACT

60 Universities are still Operating Coal-fired Boilers

Will Industrial Boiler Owners spend $5 Billion or $12 Billion to meet the New Industrial Boiler MACT? – Hot Topic Hour March 21, 2013

Use of Biogas Increases Around the World

McIlvaine’s Renewable Energy Projects and Update continues to track all the many biogas installations around the world.

EBRD Finances Biogas Plant at Ukraine’s Astarta

The EBRD is continuing its drive to promote sustainable energy in Ukraine by helping one of the country’s major agribusiness groups, Astarta, to increase the use of renewable energy at a key sugar plant.

A senior loan of up to US$12 million to Astarta’s subsidiary LLC APO “Tsukrovyk Poltavschyny” (Poltava region, central Ukraine) will be provided under the EBRD’s Agribusiness Sustainable Investment Facility.

The fifth EBRD transaction with Astarta will focus on the increased use of renewable energy in the production cycle, an important development in sugar production, which is a particularly energy-intensive industry. A newly-built biogas plant at “Tsukrovyk Poltavschyny” will process 120,000 tonnes of beet pulp every year and yield around 14.4 million cubic meters of biogas, which will lower Astarta’s annual gas consumption by 7.7 million cubic meters.

Once the project is implemented, it will allow Astarta’s main sugar plant to decrease natural gas consumption by 46 percent, water consumption by 10 percent and to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of around 15,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year. It is also expected that further GHG emission reductions will reach up to 35,000 tonnes per year.

Advances in Wastewater Treatment Spur Growth of Renewable Energy Market

The Chambers Creek Regional Wastewater Facility in Pierce County, WA, represents an emerging trend in the renewable energy market:  transforming waste into energy. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are increasingly recognized as community resources for electricity, fertilizer, and heat, as waste-to-energy projects become commonplace in a sustainable economy.

A national leader in renewable energy and water/wastewater construction, Mortenson Construction is handling the expansion of the Chambers Creek Regional Wastewater Facility to increase its production of digested methane gas, which is one of the most effective and efficient ways for new or upgraded WWTPs to generate energy for surrounding communities.

The expansion adds to anaerobic digesters (for a total of five) and new digester gas-fueled steam boilers to heat the plant — thereby substantially reducing the reliance on external energy sources. The energy produced at Chambers Creek will be used to heat the plant year round and create 40 dry tons of fertilizer a week.

According to the Water Environment Research Foundation, wastewater contains up to ten times the energy needed to treat it — providing a network of distributed, decentralized energy sources which are already constructed and piped.

WWTPs are currently responsible for approximately 1.5 percent of total U.S. energy consumption. For some municipalities, this translates to 30 to 40 percent of the total electricity bill. Since the need for wastewater treatment will only increase with population growth, closing the energy loop is rapidly becoming a primary focus of many municipalities.

Some newer WWTPs are even net energy-positive, producing enough power through a combination of microbial activity, efficiency improvements, and mechanical modifications to offset the energy need to operate. For example, a WWTP in Sheboygan, WI, produces more energy than it needs to operate through a series of biogas-fueled micro-turbines and the implementation of a co-digestion program.

FuelCell Energy Announces Operation of World’s Largest Carbon Neutral Fuel Cell Power Plant

FuelCell Energy, Inc., a global leader in the design, manufacture and service of ultra-clean, efficient and reliable fuel cell power plants, announced the dedication and operation of a 28 MW DFC3000^® stationary fuel cell power plant installation at a municipal water treatment facility in California that utilizes renewable biogas as a fuel source. FuelCell Energy, Inc. previously announced the sale of the power plant to Anaergia, Inc., a project developer and investor.

Anaergia is selling the electricity and heat to Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA) under a twenty-year power-purchase agreement. The power plant is an integral and unique on-site fuel cell application to convert biogas, into electricity and usable high quality heat in a carbon-neutral fashion that emits virtually no pollutants.

IEUA is prohibited from releasing the biogas generated by the wastewater treatment process directly into the atmosphere as it is a harmful greenhouse gas. Flaring the biogas emits pollutants and wastes a potential source of revenue. Using the biogas as a fuel source to generate power converts a waste disposal problem into a revenue stream.

Due to the renewable nature of biogas, the power generated by the fuel cell is carbon-neutral.

“This 2.8-MW fuel cell power plant is the world’s largest power plant operating on renewable on-site biogas. Our fuel cell technology is uniquely positioned to provide what other megawatt-class power generation products can’t, which is efficiently  converting biogas into continuous power right where the biogas is generated and in a manner that is virtually absent of pollutants,” said Chip Bottone, President and Chief Executive Officer, FuelCell Energy, Inc. “This project is a win for everyone involved, particularly the citizens of California that benefit from privately-financed carbon-neutral power generation.”

Direct FuelCell^® (DFC^®) plants can be located where biogas is generated and directly use the biogas with only minimal cleaning of the gas. Biogas contains humidity, sulfur and CO₂. Prior to being used as a fuel source for the Direct FuelCell, the humidity and sulfur must be removed, but the DFC technology does not require the removal of the CO₂. This is a cost advantage as pipeline quality biogas, also termed “directed biogas,” must have the CO₂ removed prior to being injected in the gas pipeline, which is an energy-intensive process and adds cost.

BMW Purchases Compressors for Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project

BMW’s manufacturing plant located in Spartanburg, SC has recently purchased two Cameron TA2040G centrifugal compressors as part of their Landfill Gas-to-Energy project. The TA2040G is a high pressure centrifugal compressor which Cameron has designed specifically for landfill gas applications.

Landfill Gas is one of the largest sources of methane emissions to the atmosphere. With over 30,000 landfills worldwide and due to the fact that methane has 21 times the Global Warming Potential of CO₂, Cameron along with innovative companies like BMW is developing technologies to capture landfill gas and convert it into clean, cost-effective, useable energy. Cameron’s TA2040G compressors will be used to pressurize the methane gas which is transported by a 9.5-mile pipeline from the nearby Palmetto landfill to the Spartanburg BMW facility. The harvested methane gas will be utilized as fuel to power the gas turbines at the BMW facility, which is the facility’s primary energy source.

For more information on Renewable Energy Projects and Update please visit

http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/Renewable_Energy_Projects_Brochure/renewable_energy_projects_brochure.htm

“Mercury Measurement and Control – Part 2” is “Hot Topic Hour” on April 11, 2013 at 10 a.m.

NOTE: Because of the great interest in this subject and the number of persons that desired to make a presentation, we have scheduled three Hot Topic Hours on “Mercury Measurement and Control” on March 28^th, April 11^th and April 18^th. Persons that register for the first or second session will automatically be registered for the following sessions.

Late in December of 2012, the U.S. EPA released the final “Utility MACT” rule also referred to as the “Mercury and Air Toxics Standards” (MATS) rule establishing mercury and air toxics standards for coal- and oil-fired electric generating units (EGUs) larger than 25 MW. Although several groups have filed lawsuits challenging various parts of the rule, the court has not stayed it. Therefore, all existing EGUs will have three years to comply with the standards although the rule allows states to grant specific units an additional year for equipment installation.

The mercury emission limits imposed by MATS on coal- and oil-fired boilers are very low. So low that it is questionable whether or not the required reductions can be achieved in all cases given the constraints imposed by reducing other pollutants simultaneously. Many also believe that it may also be very difficult to measure mercury reliably and accurately to determine and prove what removal efficiency is actually being achieved.

Control of mercury emissions from coal-fired boilers is currently achieved via three general broad methods: use of coals with low mercury content along with coal prep or washing, activated carbon injection (ACI), and various multi-pollutant control technologies in which Hg capture is enhanced in existing control devices for SO₂, NO_x, and particulates. Multi-pollutant methods include capture of Hg_p in PM control equipment and soluble oxidized H_g compounds in wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems. SCR NO_x control systems are also used to enhance oxidation of elemental Hg⁰ in flue gas to increase the mercury removal in a wet FGD.

The overall scheme of air, water and waste disposal regulations such as CSAPR, NAAQS, 316a/b and RCRA will make it even more difficult to develop a strategy and select the most appropriate method for mercury control. An integrated approach that considers how to capture mercury as well as other pollutants and dispose of them in an environmentally friendly manner will be necessary.

The following speakers will help us understand the current situation relative to the monitoring and control of mercury from coal- and oil-fired power plants and address the key issues to be considered when developing the optimum strategy to achieve compliance with the MATS; discuss potential control technologies available for operators to achieve compliance and the advantages and disadvantages of the various control technologies as well as criteria for selecting specific technologies – existing facility configuration, existing control equipment installed, fuel type and others; present the multi-emission control technologies available and under development with their applicability, capabilities, and limitations and any other alternatives available to achieve compliance with the Utility MATS.

Presenters for Mercury Measurement and Control Part 2 on April 11, 2013

John A. Cooper, Ph. D., President, Cooper Environmental Services LLC

Sanjeev Jolly, Vice-President of Engineering at Eco Power Solutions, will discuss an all-in-one system that addresses several pollutants simultaneously – NO_x, SO_x, HCl, HF, particulate, heavy metals including mercury and CO₂.  The capabilities of the system will be discussed in detail with special emphasis on mercury control by tests conducted on a coal-fired unit burning bituminous coal.      

Marc Sylvester, Vice-president for Sales at Midwest Energy Emissions Corp (ME2C), will discuss their mercury capture programs.  Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. utilizes several patented technologies to control emissions from utility and industrial boilers. This presentation will review the results of the last 3 field demonstrations of their Sorbent Enhancement Additive technology. ME2C’s Mercury Reduction programs are designed to achieve greater than 90 percent capture at less than one half the cost of Brominated Activated Carbon with less than half the amount of material needed.

Dan Kietzer, Business Development Manager at SICK Process Automation, will discuss the advancements in the design and performance of mercury CEMs over the past few years and how the new technology will benefit the end user from a cost and performance standpoint.

Presenters for Mercury Measurement and Control Part 3 on April 18th

Joe Stuart, TDC, LLC a Genesis Energy Company

Mark R. Sankey, Sr. Specialist/AQCS at Bechtel Power Corporation

David Moyeda, Manager, Boiler Combustion Engineering at GE Energy Services

Rob Nebergall, Business Manager, Emissions, Norit Americas, Inc.

To register for the Mercury Measurement and Control – Part 2 on April 11, 2013 at 10 a.m. (DST) and Mercury Measurement and Control – Part 3 on April 18, 2013 at 10 a.m. (DST), click on:  http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/hot_topic_hour_registration.htm.

Headlines for the March 29, 2013 – Utility E-Alert   

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1118 – March 29, 2013 

Table of Contents

COAL – US 

• Appeals Court upholds 600 MW Wolverine Power Project Permit
• Gulf Power to close 100 MW Scholz
• Michigan Appeals Court upholds 78 MW James DeYoung Expansion Application

COAL – WORLD 

• GN Power Ltd. to construct Additional Power Plants in Bataan, Luzon, Philippines
• Australia Firm to invest in 120 MW Malawi Power Plant
• Marubeni and KEPCO will build 1200 MW Nghi Son Expansion in Vietnam
• Tauron Polska to build Power Plant in Poland; EDF suspends Project in Poland
• Costain to Retrofit Cooling Towers at Fiddlers Ferry in UK
• Bukit Asam wants to build Mine-mouth Power Plant in Myanmar
• NTPC to modernize 2000 MW Singrauli in Uttar Pradesh, India
• AP Genco to expand Ramagundam Power Plant in Andhra Pradesh, India
• Kazakhstan’s Senate ratifies Agreement on Balkhash Power Plant
• TAQA to develop 1,440 MW Power Plant in Afsin-Elbistan Region of Turkey

GAS/OIL - US 

• Cayuga Power Plant proposes switch from Coal- to Gas-firing
• NRG presenting Case to Convert Dunkirk to Natural Gas
• 300 MW Pio Pico and 100 MW Quail Brush rejected by CA PUC

GAS/OIL – WORLD

• SPX to provide Cooling System for 835 Tzafit Combined Cycle Power Plant in Israel
• Gas-fired Irsching 5 could be closed in Germany

NUCLEAR 

• Will Fate of Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Taiwan be decided by Referendum?
• China may be building 1000 MW Nuclear Power Plant in Pakistan
• Japan Utility scraps Plan for New Nuclear Power Plant

BUSINESS

• EPA finds South Coast Air Basin (CA) in Attainment for PM₁₀
• Installation of Flowserve Pumps in German Combined Cycle Plant Underway

HOT TOPIC HOUR 

• Mercury Measurement and Control Part 1 – Hot Topic Hour March 28, 2013
• Industrial Boiler MACT Impact and Control Options Hot Topic Hour on April 4, 2013
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

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McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

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