·        Dollars Per Year CO₂ Mitigation Market

·        Sales of New Industrial Precipitators Will Exceed $7.6 Billion Next Year

·        Headlines for the June 28, 2013 - Utility E-Alert

·         “New Developments in Air Pollution Control Technology” is the “Hot Topic Hour” on July 11, 2013

·        McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

Dollars Per Year CO₂ Mitigation Market

The regulatory measures to reduce greenhouse gases are creating a billion dollar per year market for CO₂ mitigation equipment and services. However, the amount to be spent for sequestration will be far less than for improving efficiency of existing combustors.   This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in its continually updated report, Utility CO₂ Mitigation Markets.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

From the perspective of an oil company looking for ways to enhance recovery, coal is ideal. Large amounts of CO₂ can be generated at low cost. Sask Power is building a CO₂ capture system at its Boundary Dam plant. Due to the proximity of depleted oil fields, the cost of the capture system can quickly be offset by oil revenue increases.

The balance between the need for enhanced oil recovery and the availability of power plant CO₂ is also favorable.  The need far exceeds the present CO₂ generation. The problem is that much of the need is remote from the generation. The result is that CO₂ sequestration will be too expensive for all but a few sites.

One solution is a new global strategy that marries coal-fired power generation and enhanced oil recovery.  Coal could be economically shipped to Saudi Arabia and coal-fired power plants which are constructed there could economically furnish the CO₂ for recovery.  The gas and oil which would no longer be burned to generate Saudi power would be exported. The problem is that this solution requires a degree of coordination among the countries of the world which is unlikely.

The concept of quickly replacing coal with other fuels is impractical, costly and not the best environmental option. In some circumstances, coal is the greenest of fuels.  An existing coal-fired power plant emits 1 unit of greenhouse gases while a gas turbine emits only 0.6 units of greenhouse gases.  A solar or wind generator will emit close to 0 units.  A coal-fired power plant burning 20 percent biomass and using oxycombustion and sequestration will emit minus 0.2 units of greenhouse gases.  For each unit of energy produced, CO₂ is being removed from the atmosphere.  The biomass absorbs CO₂ when it grows. When it is burned and then sequestered, it is no longer in the environment.  When pure oxygen is the gas intake there is no stack and no emission.  All the gases are sequestered.

The problem with widespread use of this technology is the limited availability of biomass and the lack of proximity between combustion source and depleted oil fields.

The biggest opportunity is the increased efficiency at existing coal-fired power plants. Utilizing gravimetric rather than volumetric coal feed, upgrading the combustion system, utilizing optimization and other renovations can cause large CO₂ reductions.  An ultra-supercritical power plant generates 30 percent less CO₂ than an old sub-critical power plant.

But this is only the beginning.  Co-generation combined with higher efficiency can cut the CO₂ emissions by 50 percent.  A power plant with a steam plume is a power plant which needs co-generation. Rather than unproductively evaporating large amounts of water, the power plant can supply the energy for an ethanol plant or even to a co-located sewage treatment plant or fish farm.

There is a revolution in fish farming with Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS). These sophisticated tank systems can be located anywhere and are more cost effective than ponds or wild capture, so the power plant of the future can supply your energy to cook the fish as well as the fish itself.

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Sales of New Industrial Precipitators Will Exceed $7.6 Billion Next Year

Power plants and industrial facilities will spend $7.6 billion for new electrostatic precipitators next year. East Asia will account for 45 percent of the total. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in Electrostatic Precipitators: World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

($ Millions)

The market for repair parts and upgrades is slightly larger than the market for new units. The total market is in excess of $16 billion.

Electrostatic precipitators compete with fabric filters.  In the 1970s all the power, cement, metal smelting and pulp and paper plant operators utilized precipitators. Today only the power industry buys more precipitators than fabric filters.

The future of precipitators depends on the ability to meet tougher and tougher particulate limits. A number of new power plants in the U.S. have opted for fabric filters.  China has passed tough new particulate regulations. There is some concern whether the limits can be met with precipitators.

On the other hand, there are substantial improvements being made to make precipitators more efficient. There is also the issue of initial performance as opposed to average performance between maintenance outages. Some of the precipitator improvements are to make the units more reliable throughout the operating period.

For more information on Electrostatic Precipitators: World Market

http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=48#no18

Headlines for the June 28, 2013 – Utility E-Alert   

UTILITY E-ALERT 

#1131 – June 28, 2013

Table of Contents

COAL – US

• Supreme Court agrees to review CSAPR
• Tenaska cancels Coal Gasification Plant in Illinois and Sweetwater Power Plant in Texas
• Quindaro to stop Burning Coal, Nearman to add Controls
• NRG to add Gas Capability at Avon Lake and New Castle
• New ESPs at Labadie

COAL – WORLD

• Nishat Group could build 600 MW Power Plant in Pakistan
• Groups Shortlisted for 450 MW Tuzla Power Plant in Bosnia
• Essar plans to convert Hazira and Bhander Power-Hazira Power Plants (Gujarat, India) to burn Coal
• India has Growing Appetite for Imported Coal
• SAIL to build 1320 MW Power Plant at Bhawanathpur, Jharkhand, India

GAS/OIL – WORLD

• SSE could build 1400 MW Seabank 3 in UK
• Ansaldo wins 600 MW 6^th October Power Plant Contract in Egypt
• Sravanthi Group plans to move 225 MW Gas-fired Unit to Nigeria
• GE, Symbion Power Tanzania to develop Natural Gas-fired Power Plant in Mtwara Region, Tanzania
• Nigeria unveils Plan to privatize Ten Gas-fired Power Plants

CO₂ 

• Obama Lays Out Ambitious Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases

NUCLEAR

• Polish Nuclear Power Plants delayed, Exploration of Shale Gas pursued
• Rosatom still eager to build Bulgarian Second Nuclear Power Plant
• Iran plans 20,000 MW from Nuclear Power
• Russia’s Leningrad 2 Nuclear Power Units should be Online in 2016

BUSINESS

• Fabric Filter Media Suppliers will Post Revenues of $1.6 Billion Next Year
• Alstom/Harbin Turbine License for GT13E2 Gas Turbines in China
• MHI-MS Licenses ESP Technology to Tecpro Systems of India
• Valve World Expo–Americas was a Big Success

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“New Developments in Air Pollution Control Technology” is the subject of the Hot Topic Hour on July 11, 2013

In anticipation of the flood of new air and water pollution regulations affecting fossil-fueled power and industrial boilers as well as cement plants, the manufacturers of air pollution control systems and equipment have invested to improve existing systems and develop new technology. Driving this development was the need to achieve the low pollutant emission limits imposed by the Utility MATS, Boiler MACT and Cement MACT as well as pending CSAPR and proposed GHG rules so that fossil-fueled boilers could remain economically viable. This required new approaches to improve the efficiency and reducing the operating cost of existing APC systems and reducing the capital and operating costs for new equipment designed to meet the limits.

The following speakers will describe the latest APC technology currently in use, undergoing beta testing or under development scheduled for commercialization in the near future. Discussion should focus on description of the technology, performance of the systems or equipment, emission reduction achieved and capital and operating costs.

Sheila Glesmann, Senior Vice President, Environmental and External Affairs at ADA Carbon Solutions, LLC, will present “Advances in Activated Carbons.”  PAC injection is the most commercially proven and reliable mercury control technology.  As MATS compliance planning heats up, utilities have taken the initiative to conduct significant full-scale testing, which has helped to reinforce some assumptions on mercury control (activated carbon injection controls Hg well in almost every application) and changed others (wet scrubbers do not always control Hg as effectively as needed).  ADA Carbon Solutions is working closely with EGUs to develop and conduct test programs, demonstrate new and innovative sorbents that address niche needs and drive down the cost of compliance through improved PAC design.  The presentation will cover new PAC developments, addressing balance of plant impacts and recent field test results.

Michael D. Schantz, Director, Flue Gas Treatment Solutions at Lhoist North America, will share some of the lessons from Lhoist’s nearly 20 years of DSI experience in Europe and more recently here in the U.S.

Steve Baloga, P.E. of Novinda Corporation, will present “Condensable PM Mitigation Using DSI.” EPA recently lowered the PM_2.5 ambient air quality standard and appears poised to regulate PM_2.5 with end of pipe limits.  EPA currently classifies condensable particulate matter (CPM) as a subset of PM_2.5.  Some states are beginning to regulate condensable CPM emissions from certain combustion sources. SCR and SNCR technology can inadvertently generate unwanted fine PM, including CPM. Dry sorbent injection (DSI) utilizing alkaline sorbent materials such as hydrated lime, trona and sodium bicarbonate can effectively mitigate CPM emissions by eliminating CPM precursors.  This presentation will show real world full scale trial results for the mitigation of CPM from a combustion process which can have application to reduce CPM in boiler exhaust.

Peter J Spinney, Director, Market & Technology Assessment at NeuCo, Inc., will provide an overview of the EPA MATS rule, with particular emphasis on its "Work Practices" provisions. Intended to minimize dioxin and furin emissions -- covered by MATS but not readily measured -- these work practices require boiler and controls tuning, as well as "optimizing NO_x and CO" to maximize boiler efficiency and, thus, minimize the unmeasured emissions.  The presentation will cover what is required for tuning and the associated emissions measurements, the deadline for the initial tuning, pre- and post-tuning measurements, the frequency of subsequent tuning and the deferral by one year of the initial tuning and measurements, as well as the reduced frequency of subsequent tuning and more lenient testing requirements for boilers equipped with neural network optimizers.     

To register for the July 11^th “Hot Topic Hour” on “New Developments in Air Pollution Control Technology” click on:http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/hot_topic_hour_registration.htm.

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