·        “Hot Topic Hour” for September 13, 2012 is “Instruments and Technology for On-line Boiler Monitoring

·        McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

·        $5.5 Billion Market for NO_x Control Systems Next Year

·        Headlines for the August 31, 2012 – Utility E-Alert

·        Advances in Wind Power Technology Continue

“Hot Topic Hour” for September 13, 2012 is “Instruments and Technology for

On-line Boiler Monitoring”

Power plant operators are increasingly driven to reduce plant operating costs and minimize pollutant emissions and GHGs. To accomplish this they must know the exact boiler status at all times and take immediate actions when problems occur. Improving the efficiency of the boiler operation just one percent can save hundreds of thousands of dollars in fuel and other material cost while providing a comparable reduction in CO₂ emissions. Continuously monitoring the conditions in a boiler over all operating conditions will help the operator achieve these savings and even more. With the instruments and systems available today, an operator can avoid conditions that cause problems and anticipate future problems thereby avoiding unplanned outages or unscheduled maintenance.

Infrared cameras and laser spectroscopy instruments allow operators to fine tune the combustion process at each burner to achieve optimum efficiency. Cameras and temperature sensing systems also assist operators to control the temperature in the boiler during critical times of startup, load changes and shutdown to avoid over stressing the boiler walls and tubes as well as optimizing fuel consumption. Acoustic and infrared systems are also available for early detection on water/steam leaks that will rob efficiency and lead to major failures and shutdown. Software is also available that combines boiler monitoring with many other operating parameters plantwide to allow the plant to achieve optimal efficiency and minimize maintenance. Diagnostic capabilities in software also help to plan for maintenance and quickly address any problems that might occur before they become serious.

The following speakers will help us understand the ins and outs of online boiler monitoring, technologies available and under development with their applicability, capabilities, and limitations, costs involved and the benefits that can be attained.

David Early, President of Combustion Technologies Corporation, will discuss several parameters critical to boiler control that were not available only a few years ago - the online, continuous measurement of burner line coal flow as well as the associated individual burner secondary airflow. Measurement and control of these parameters allows for controlling the air-to-fuel ratios of each burner. The continuous control of A/F ratios allows for balanced excess O₂ readings and minimizing/eliminating CO. This, in turn, allows users to reduce the O₂ that yields a reduction in NO_x and improvement in boiler efficiency - fuel savings. Continuous measurement of the coal flows also allows for elimination of coal layout (and pipe fires); optimization of primary air; better flame stability and more.  In order to ensure optimized combustion, continuous measurement of CO should also be performed as it is a more reliable combustion tool than excess O₂ alone. This presentation will discuss the technologies and benefits of online burner line coal flows and burner secondary airflows as well as continuous measurement of CO in the backpass.

Todd Melick, Vice-president of PROMECON USA, Inc., will discuss the PROMECON carbon in ash monitoring system and air and flue gas flow measurement for dusty applications. He will describe a new update that allows measurement with clean air while starting up a boiler or coal mill. He will also discuss the application of balancing flue gas flow into various scrubber modules on a recent project.

Scott Affelt, Vice-president of Sales and Marketing at Zolo Technologies, will discuss a laser-based sensor that can measure temperature, O₂, CO and H₂O profiles directly in the furnace and in real-time.  This key combustion constituent information can be used to balance combustion profiles to reduce emissions, reduce slagging or improve efficiency. The information can also be integrated into a closed-loop combustion optimizer to maintain optimum combustion performance over a range of operating conditions and fuels.

To register for the Hot Topic Hour on Thursday, September 13, 2012, at 10 a.m. click on:

http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/hot_topic_hour_registration.htm.

McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

On Thursday at 10 a.m. Central time, McIlvaine hosts a 90 minute web meeting on important energy and pollution control subjects. Power webinars are free for subscribers to either Power Plant Air Quality Decisions or Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System. The cost is $125.00 for non-subscribers.

Market Intelligence webinars are free to McIlvaine market report.

$5.5 Billion Market for NO_x Control Systems Next Year

Operators of combustors, kilns and chemical plants will spend $5.5 billion next year for new NO_x control systems and for the replacement catalyst needed for systems already in place. This is the latest forecast in NO_x Control World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

NO_x System and Catalyst Revenues ($ Millions)

World Region                        2013

Africa                                             9

CIS                                                 9

East Asia                                 3,366

Eastern Europe                           266

Middle East                                 36

NAFTA                                   1,391

South & Central America            17

West Asia                                     15

Western Europe                         414

Total                                        5,523

The forecasts are in 2010 U.S. dollars and are pegged on system and catalyst pricing which prevails in the U.S. and Europe. The actual selling prices in local currencies are considerably less in East Asia.  This region will purchase 63 percent of the units, but will spend much less when currency adjustments are considered. 

The power industry will account for more than 85 percent of the total cement plants; refineries and chemical plants will all be relatively small purchasers. The major markets over the next decade will be the large electricity generators around the world.  The next major target will be cement plants. A few selective catalytic reduction systems are already installed in cement plants in Europe and the U.S. but over the next ten years it is likely that most will install some type of post combustion control.

The art of catalyst maintenance has improved greatly. There are now three options including catalyst cleaning, catalyst rejuvenation and catalyst regeneration. These techniques can extend the catalyst life substantially.

Selective non-catalytic reduction is less efficient but also less costly than selective catalytic reduction. Where NO_x levels are low or the standards more lenient, this becomes a popular choice.  One alternative gaining ground is the use of ozone. Another is the use of hydrogen peroxide. Both these technologies can supplement selective catalytic reduction.

One of the technologies with the biggest potential to change the market is a high temperature filter with catalyst integrated into the fiber matrix. This development by Clear Edge is now commercial.

For more information on NO_x Control World Markets, click on:  http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/air.html#n035.

Here are the Headlines for the August 31, 2012 – Utility E-Alert

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1090 – August 31, 2012

Table of Contents

COAL – US

• TVA plans FGD and SCR at Gallatin

COAL – WORLD

§  AES Gener to invest in Emissions Controls in Chile

§  Chile’s Supreme Court rejects MPX Energia 2100 MW Power Plant on Environmental Grounds

§  Ukraine converting Power Plants from Gas-firing to Coal

§  China Huadian to build 3x142 MW Power Plant in Bali, Indonesia

§  Punjab, India planning Power Plants

§  Government has Environmental Objections to Nayachar Island Power Project, West Bengal, India

GAS/OIL / US

§  Mid-Kansas Electric Company to build 110 MW Rubart Station

§  Wood Group refurbishing Glenarm Power Plant

§  Jordon Cove proposes 380 MW Power Plant for LNG Liquefaction Facility in Oregon

GAS/OIL WORLD

§  Toshiba is EPC Contractor for 150 MW Power Plant at JFE Steel Mill in Japan

§  Bis Enerji to convert Bursa Power Plant to Combined Cycle Operation in Turkey

§  1500 MW Blackstone Gas Turbine Power Plant in Queensland, Australia gets City Approval

GASIFICATION

• Foster Wheeler to participate in FEED Study for 900 MW IGCC Don Valley in the UK

NUCLEAR

§  Exelon cancels Plans for Nuclear Power Plant in Texas

§  Westinghouse to study Additional Nuclear Reactor at Kozloduy in Bulgaria

BUSINESS

§  China and U.S. need to share Information on Furnace Sorbent Injection (FSI)

§  Alstom to supply ESP for Glogow Copper Smelter in Poland; Glogow will also produce H₂SO₄ from the Scrubber

§  Research Facility opened in Georgia to study Cooling Water needs for Power Plants

§  Hearings for Cadiz Port Power Plants in the Philippines

§  Asia Will Account For 45 Percent of the Air and Water Monitoring Market Next Year

§  Large Treatment and Flow Control Companies Expect to Grow 5.2 Percent in 2013

§  The Market for Fabric Filter Systems and Replacement Elements Will Exceed $8.7 Billion in 2013

§  Breen Energy Solutions will distribute Paragon Air Heater Sootblowing Control System

HOT TOPIC HOUR

§  Lots of Pumps used in Power Plants according to Hot Topic Speakers August 30

§  Hot Topic Hour for September 6, 2012 is “Material Handling in Coal-fired Power Plants”

§  Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

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

Advances in Wind Power Technology Continue

Each month McIlvaine reports on wind technology improvements in Renewable Energy Projects and Update.

Mass Megawatts’ Wind Augmentation System Provides a Three-fold Increase in Power Output

Mass Megawatts Wind Power, Inc. reports that operational results indicate a three-fold increase in power output generated by wind turbines that implement the company’s patented wind augmentation technology.

The Mass Megawatts’ wind augmentation system utilizes a less complicated and inexpensive wind-focusing technique to increase the wind velocity directed at the turbine by an average of 70 percent. This accelerated wind speed, in turn, results in a significant, three-fold increase in the electrical power generated by the turbine.

The company’s augmentation system eliminates the need for turbine structures to exceed a height of 80 feet to realize adequate wind velocity. This reduces material and installation costs while expediting zoning approval in many locations. Additionally, the augmenter technology makes it possible for turbines to operate profitably in lower wind-speed locations.

Using horizontal or propeller type turbine blades, the cost per rated kilowatt is projected to be less than $1000 and anticipated to approach $600 in mass production. This compares very favorably with traditional wind power systems that realize a cost of $1500 to $2000 per rated kilowatt.

Vestas Releases High-wind V112.3.0 MW Turbine to Meet Global Customer Demands

In traditional and mature parts of the global wind market, there is a need to optimize power production from high-wind sites. At the same time there is also a vast level of high-wind resources in emerging wind markets. In both cases, the new V112-3.0 MW IEC S high-wind turbine is developed to deliver on these customer and market needs for a productive and reliable 3 MW turbine with a low cost of energy. 

“The global market for high-wind turbines is diverse. In traditional and mature wind markets like the European mainland, there are not that many high-wind sites and opportunities left. However, in other markets, there are huge untapped high-wind resources and potential for high-wind specific turbines,” says Knud Winther Nielsen, Senior Product Manager in Vestas Turbines R&D and head of the commercial development of the V112-3.0 MW.

“Vestas sees a lot of potential in the high-wind IEC 1 segment in large geographical markets such as the US, Canada and Australia. There are also a lot of high-wind resources waiting to be harvested in the emerging markets. Going forward, we expect these markets to drive the growth in onshore wind and the V112-3.0 MW IEC S is developed to give our customers in these markets a solid and reliable return on their investment.”

Suzlon Announces S111, New Low-wind Turbine with Up to 29 Percent Increased Output

Suzlon Group announced the launch of its newest wind turbine – the S111 – 2.1 MW machine designed for low wind speed sites. Featuring a rotor diameter of 111 meters, and a swept area of more than 9,500 square meters, the S111 is the latest generation of Suzlon’s 2.1 MW fleet, and one of the highest-yielding IEC Class III wind turbines of any comparable class machine.

The S111 program will have its first prototype operational in late 2013 and serial production will begin in 2014. With the launch of the new S111 – 2.1 MW Suzlon is officially making the turbine available for sale.

In addition to being backed by Suzlon’s award-winning safety program and service team, the S111 customer will further benefit from a 10-year all-inclusive service and warranty program.

Power Climber Wind Introduces the Next Generation Turbine Service Lift

Power Climber Wind, a division of SafeWorks, LLC, introduced the next generation of its Turbine Service Lift (TSL), featuring increased travel speed and advanced electronics at Windpower 2012, held in Atlanta in June.

Driven by a proven, proprietary hoist with integrated overspeed and slack rope safety devices, the service lift’s 70 feet/min travel speed provides a dramatic increase in technicians’ productivity. Additionally, solid state electronics with active fault monitoring and an active system status display enhance operator safety and confidence.

With close to 10,000 service lifts operating globally, Power Climber Wind is making work at height safer. With improved safety features, proven operation over the years, and compliance with the most rigorous global safety standards, the next generation service lifts offer the highest level of technicians’ safety.

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