Power Air Quality Insights No

Power Air Quality Insights
No. 112 June 20, 2013

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· See McIlvaine in Houston at Valve World Registration on the 25^th and 26^th and Hear McIlvaine in the Speakers Corner

· $532 Billon Coal-fired Retrofit and Upgrade Market in the U.S. and Europe

· NO_x Control Expenditures of $8.7 Billion will Account for 18% of 2014 Air Pollution Market

See McIlvaine in Houston at Valve World Registration on the 25^th and 26^th and hear McIlvaine in the Speakers Corner

After the successful premiere in 2011, the second staging of Valve World Americas Expo & Conference is at a larger venue to accommodate the unprecedented demand for space. The event will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX from June 25 – 26, 2013.

At the conference and expo, attendees will get an extensive overview of technical innovations concerning valves, valve-related products and valve–related piping products, seals and sealing materials as well as engineering, LDAR (Leak Detection and Repair) software, S.I.S and services.

McIlvaine Company will have a table top display next to registration and will also be providing four presentations as follows:

Robert McIlvaine is the CEO of the McIlvaine Company - a market research, publishing and consulting company which publishes Industrial Valves: World Markets. In his presentation, Exploring the Future for the Industrial Valve Industry, McIlvaine will provide forecasts for the valve industry in the future segmented by industry, geography and valve type. Major factors affecting the growth will be analyzed. They include - Disparate regional growth, Environmental regulatory trends, Safety and other regulatory trends, Energy sources of the future, Growth through consolidation, Impact of China as both a purchaser and supplier, Expansion of “smart valve” revenues, New pressure, temperature and corrosion prevention needs and New applications from ballast water treatment to shale gas. The presentation will be divided into four topics:

For information about attending the conference at Valve World Americas Conference 2013, contact KCI Publishing, Mr. Christian Borrmann, Tel. +31 575 585-276; e-mail: c.borrmann@kci-world.com

Improving efficiency, reducing operating costs and meeting environmental regulations will result in a huge retrofit and upgrade investment at coal-fired power plants in the U.S. and Europe. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in it Utility Tracking System. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Region	2013 Installed MW X 1000	2020 Installed MW X 1000	Investment to Extend Life $ Billions
Europe	380	385	308
U. S.	310	280	224
Total	690	665	532

Despite the low cost of natural gas at present, DOE predicts the U.S. will burn more coal in 2035 than at present. Coal consumption at European utilities is up substantially this year. Coal is proving much more economical than alternatives in Europe. Therefore, there is a great incentive to burn coal cleanly and economically.

The fact that France has just contracted to upgrade three 600 MW coal-fired boilers and to extend the life for another twenty-five years is testimony to the new European commitment to coal. Eastern Europe depends on coal. There is an ongoing program to reduce environmental emissions.

In both the U.S. and Europe, the largest expenditures will be to improve combustion efficiency. The average U.S. plant emits more than 30 percent for CO₂ and uses 30 percent more coal than a new ultra-supercritical plant. Upgrades will not be able to fully duplicate a new ultra-supercritical plant, but they can improve efficiency by 10 percent or more.

Already many European plants have switched from volumetric to gravimetric feeders. Controlling the variation in fuel flow by itself can improve efficiency by several percent. The smart valves and pumps available today increase performance and reduce maintenance costs.

The biggest expenditures will be in monitoring and automation. Monitoring the conditions at a number of specific points in the boiler and then varying fuel, the air flow through individual burners will be one upgrade. The automation of the operation is necessary because of the complex trade-offs between efficiency and NO_xemissions.

Neural networks which use empirical knowledge to optimize operations will be another important addition to the upgrades. These, in turn, will operate better by replacing today’s sensors with smart sensors which digitally convey the intelligence to the transmitter rather than just send an analog signal.

NO_x Control Expenditures of $8.7 Billion will Account for 18% of 2014 Air Pollution Market

Power plants, incinerator operators and chemical plants will spend $8.7 billion in 2014 for NO_x control systems. This will represent 18 percent of a total world market of $48.9 billion. This is the latest forecast in Air Pollution Management, an online report published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

World Air Pollution Control Revenues 2014
Technology	Revenues $ Millions
Fabric Filter	11,700
Industrial Scrubbers and Adsorbers	6,800
Electrostatic Precipitators	7,600
Air Monitoring	4,600
Power Plant Flue Gas Desulfurization	7,500
NO_x Control	8,700
Stationary Thermal and Catalytic Treatment	2,000
Total	48,900

Power plants will be the biggest purchasers. They will account for more than 50 percent of all the purchases. No other industry will account for a large share. The chemical, refinery, oil and gas, steel, mining and cement industries will be among the other purchasers.

The air monitoring revenues will exceed $4.6 billion. A significant percentage of this total is instruments used to improve combustion efficiency rather than measure stack gas emissions.

The totals include the equipment as well as consumables. The largest consumables categories are replacement catalyst for SCR systems and replacement bags for fabric filters.

China will be the largest purchasing country. Its purchases will exceed that of the entire European Union. The country is building a number of new coal-fired power plants. It has also reduced emission limits on SO₂and NO_x. As a result, every new power plant will have both SO₂ and NO_x control equipment.

Ershigs Provides Fiberglass Composite Tower for First North American Offshore Wind Turbine

Ershigs, Inc, division of Denali Incorporated, provided a 1/8^th scale fiberglass composite tower for launch recently into the Penobscot River near Brewer, ME. The 65 foot tall turbine prototype named VolturnUS 1:8 is the first offshore, grid connected floating wind turbine deployed off the coast of North America. Ershigs is one of 30 industrial members of the team led by University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center that participated in a launch ceremony May 31^stinto the Penobscot River near Brewer, ME. The VolturnUS 1:8 is a scale model of a full sized, 6 MW turbine with a 423-foot rotor diameter design on top of a 270’ fiberglass composite tower.

“Not only is the project the first offshore grid connected turbine in North America,” said Steve Hettick, Ershigs C.P. Manufacturing, “this deployment is the first ever in the world, either on land or offshore, to utilize a fiberglass composite approach for the turbine’s tower. This project represents an excellent application for our fiberglass technology due to the significant weight savings and corrosion resistance offered with composites vs. steel, which are critical cost and lifecycle benefits for an offshore floating, salt water environment.

The floating wind turbine technology is part of the New England Aqua Ventus project and is the culmination of more than five years of research and development conducted by the DeepCwind Consortium. This consortium research program, which is led by Dr. Habib Dagher, P.E. and Director of the advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, is a unique public-private partnership funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation-Partnership for Innovation, the Maine Technology Institute, the State of Maine, the University of Maine and more than 30 industrial partners.

Former President Bill Clinton and leaders from six Sioux Indian Tribes announced a new wind power initiative that will harness South Dakota's greatest natural resource and spur long-term development in the economically depressed region. The initiative, which is receiving critical legal and public policy counsel from Arent Fox LLP, was announced as a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action during the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting.

Through the project, the Tribes stand to infuse up to $3 billion directly into the South Dakota economy, an amount roughly equal to the impact of the entire manufacturing sector in South Dakota in a given year. The planned project could generate 1-2 gigawatts of power annually. Measured conservatively, that's more than enough power to electrify the homes in Denver, CO for the next 20 years, the typical useful lifespan of the wind turbines.

The majority of the project's funding will come through the sale of bonds by a Multi-Tribal Power Authority, which are expected to be made available to investors in about two years, following a critical planning and preparation stage.

Global Green USA Announces Commitment at Clinton Global Initiative to Bring Solar Power to Communities Devastated by Hurricane Sandy

Speaking to a global audience at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting, Global Green USA announced its Commitment to Action to implement its catalytic ‘Solar For Sandy’ program, which will equip five or more community facilities serving low income residents in New York and New Jersey neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Sandy with grid-tied, back-up solar energy systems. Global Green’s first, full-scale ‘Solar for Sandy’ project installation will take place this Fall in Red Hook, NY, in collaboration with IKEA, the world’s largest home furnishings retailer.

When Hurricane Sandy struck, many neighborhoods went without power for weeks and lacked up any back up energy capacity. While many Red Hook residents went without power for days, Global Green’s new solar installation will help mitigate future power blackouts and provide expanded emergency services to the location selected. The new system will not only enable lighting, mobile phone charging, and other basic services, but will also be designed to provide critical services such as refrigeration for medicine and basic heating or cooling. Furthermore, the solar system will produce energy every day, and lower energy bills, allowing savings to go to critical services for the local neighborhood.

Kyocera to Supply and Construct 30 MW of Solar Power at Agricultural Facilities Across Japan

Kyocera Corporation announced that it is supplying approximately 30 megawatts of solar power generating systems to one of the largest solar power projects in Japan which is being implemented by the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (herein Zen-Noh) and Mitsubishi Corporation. Within the project, Kyocera Solar Corporation will be in charge of supplying, engineering, constructing, and maintaining a total of 30 MW of solar power generating systems to be installed at roughly 80 of the Zen-Noh Group's facilities (livestock barns, distribution centers, parking lots, etc.) around the country. The Kyocera order is worth approximately 8.5 billion yen (approximately 89 million U.S. dollars), and comprises the initial phase of the project.

Aiming for the reinvigoration of the agricultural sector and local farming towns, as well as the further spread of renewable energy use, Zen-Noh and Mitsubishi are planning to build one of the country's largest scale solar power projects by installing a total of 200 MW of solar power generating systems on farmers' and Zen-Noh Group's facilities nationwide by the end of fiscal year 2015. The two companies have established JAMC Solar Energy Company to operate the solar power project, and will sell the power generated from the installations to the regional utility power companies under Japan's feed-in tariff program.

Energy Answers Resource Recovery Project in Arecibo Puerto Rico Receives EPA Air Permit

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 issued the first Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Permit for a Resource Recovery / Waste‐to‐Energy Project in the U.S. Island territory of Puerto Rico. Energy Answers International, based in Albany, New York, with project offices in Puerto Rico, is developing the project which will accept 2,100 tons per day of municipal solid waste and produce 77 MW of renewable energy and recover hundreds of tons per day of recyclable and reusable materials. The project will provide communities with environmentally sound waste management services at a significantly lower cost than at other compliant facilities now available and will generate renewable energy at a lower cost than other power plants in Puerto Rico.

For more information on Renewable Energy Projects and Update please visit:

§ Centrica and Tenaga said to have posted Initial Bids for Bord Gáis Energy

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 Tracking System. The cost is $125.00 for non-subscribers. Market Intelligence webinars are free to McIlvaine market report subscribers and are $400.00 for non-subscribers.

	2013
Date	Subject
July 11	New Developments in Power Plant Air Pollution Control	Power
July 18	Measurement and Control of HCl	Power
July 25	GHG Compliance Strategies, Reduction Technologies and Measurement	Power
August 1	Update on Coal Ash and CCP Issues and Standards	Power
August 8	Improving Power Plant Efficiency and Power Generation	Power
August 15	Control and Treatment Technology for FGD Wastewater	Power
August 22	Status of Carbon Capture and Storage Programs and Technology	Power
August 29	Pumps for Power Plant Cooling Water and Water Treatment Applications	Power
Sept. 5	Fabric Selection for Particulate Control	Power
Sept. 19	Air Pollution Control for Gas Turbines	Power
Sept. 26	Multi-Pollutant Control Technology	Power

§ Centrica and Tenaga said to have posted Initial Bids for Bord Gáis Energy