Power Air Quality Insights No

				Power Air Quality Insights No. 28 October 27, 2011

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· Separation and Control are the $100 Billion Segments in the $380 Billion Fluid Treatment and Control Market

With pump companies buying fan and filter companies, the perception of a broader fluid treatment and control market is taking hold with suppliers and investors. The McIlvaine Fluid/Gas Treatment and Control World Markets report forecasts $380 billion in revenues for this technology in 2011 growing to $400 billion in 2012.

The market can be segmented in many different ways. McIlvaine has generated more than 300,000 forecasts by product, industry and country. Senior management and investors have the need to view the market broadly. The McIlvaine CircularSolution™ displays the forecasts from the top down. There are five concentric circles representing the market. The 20 radii divide the market more specifically. The intersections of the circles and radii identify 100 market segments. The broadest view is with the five technologies for treatment of air, gases and liquids.

The market can also be segmented by 10 fluid types and by 10 applications. The projected revenues for these radii are shown in the following CircularSolution™:

For more information on Fluid/Gas Treatment and Control: World Markets, click on:

Transmission lines are being built to accommodate the renewable energy being developed around the world. McIlvaine reports on these activities in Renewable Energy Updates and Projects.

The Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) announced that Belgian transmission company, Elia, is joining the effort to create a new offshore electric transmission backbone system along the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. east coast. The Elia Group operates transmission systems in both Belgium and Germany that, among other things, accommodate large amounts of wind energy.

As an investor and a provider of consulting services to the project, Elia's participation brings the benefit of their first-hand experience working to develop and construct the European Super Grid, an initiative of similar importance, size and scope to the AWC.

The Elia Group began their offshore experience by building the first offshore HVDC project in Europe. Pulling from this experience, the Elia Group is now playing a major role in the construction of the North and Baltic Sea portion of the European Super Grid, a transmission network that will interconnect Europe and regions around its borders with a high-voltage direct current power grid. The European grid concept is designed to incorporate considerable renewable energy resources, particularly wind energy, and reinforce security of supply.

ABB has won a contract with a Spanish company Isolux Corsan, main contractor for the Xingu and Macapá power transmission lines, to provide substation automation and telecommunications systems for six new substations in Brazil.

The project is part of a Brazilian government scheme to connect the Amazon region in north-eastern Brazil to the power system serving the rest of the country. This is one of the largest transmission projects to be carried out in Brazil in recent years.

The Linhão, or “Big Line” project will ultimately connect the cities of Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, and Macapá, the capital of Amapá state, with Tucuruí hydropower plant, Brazil’s second largest hydroelectric plant, which has a generation capacity of 8,370 MW. The new line will help to reduce local dependence on thermal power plants and diesel-powered generators in 27 of the towns and cities along the left bank of the Amazon River.

ScottishPower has recently submitted proposals to the energy regulator Ofgem outlining £3 billion of planned investments on its high voltage transmission electricity network in Scotland over the next 10 years. Projects will include the connection of up to 5 GW of renewable energy, helping Scotland to achieve its 2020 carbon reduction targets, and extensive upgrades to the electricity grid links between England and Scotland.

The company has also said that this investment in Scotland will create around 1500 new jobs.

Under the proposals, the company would be able to connect up to 5 GW of new renewable energy projects to the grid in the ScottishPower area and around 11 GW across the whole of Scotland. In total across Scotland this will accommodate renewable generation capacity equivalent to four times the size of Longannet power station in Fife, currently the largest electricity generator in Scotland.

Included within the submission are a number of strategically important major projects that the company plans to deliver in the next decade, including increasing the transmission capacity between Scotland and England to at least 6.6 GW, allowing the transfer of nearly 3 times more electricity than is currently possible.

ScottishPower will also invest heavily to maintain the reliability of its transmission network, which is over 99 percent reliable at present. To ensure this continued high performance, the company will upgrade nearly a fifth of its substation equipment and replace or refurbish approximately 800 circuit km of overhead line.

The Kansas Corporation Commission approved the transmission line route as filed by Prairie Wind Transmission with modifications based on proposals by some landowners along and near the route. Prairie Wind proposed its route to the KCC after extensive consultation with landowners, state and federal environmental and wildlife agencies and environmental groups. The KCC approved a route that incorporated the best suggestions proposed by area landowners, some of which lower the estimated cost of the project.

The 110-mile double-circuit 345 kilovolt high-capacity transmission line, part of the project commonly referred to as the Y-plan, will begin near Colwich connecting to Medicine Lodge and then continuing south to the Kansas-Oklahoma border.

Prairie Wind will begin working with landowners along the route this summer and fall to obtain rights of way. Construction will begin mid-2012. The line is scheduled to be in service by the end of 2014.

You can enter the Global Knowledge Orchard various ways. One is by application. Here are relevant links:

Siemens says electrodeionization could replace RO as the main technology for desalination. Nalco is working with EDI to separate the sugars in cellulosic ethanol. There is a link to a very interesting InterWEBview™ with Michael Snow, President of Snowpure. EDI is replacing ion exchange in many power plants. Snowpure is selling lots of EDI modules in China.

The YouTube recording on the Wahlco Urea to ammonia system continues to draw about two views per day in the Chinese version. This is very interesting due to the lack of access to YouTube in China.

Through the webinar recording link you can view many of our hot topic sessions which are on subjects other than air quality. Here is one example. Just click on the “Additional Information” and enter the password: hth 192 in order to view the session.

Title: Material Handling in Coal Plants - Hot Topic Hour February 10, 2011

Speakers addressed the various material handling systems and equipment available for all of the materials used in a coal-fired power plant, the advantages or disadvantages of each, their operating experience with the equipment, potential problems to avoid during design and operation and new technology available to improve performance while reducing energy consumed and maintenance requirements. Password: hth192

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Application Sequencing

221112 - Fossil Fuel	Coal-Fired 燃煤	Air Quality 空气质量	FGD 烟气脱硫	Reagent Preparation 反应物准备
221112 - Fossil Fuel	Coal-Fired 燃煤	Coal Handling
221112 - Fossil Fuel	Coal-Fired 燃煤	Flyash

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Product

Process

Publication Date

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· Aumund Group

· FLSmidth

· Pennsylvania Crusher

· Semi-Bulk Systems

· Conveyor

· Mechanical Conveyor

· Pneumatic Conveyor

· Reagent Preparation

Technology	$ Billions 2011
Modify	$ 30
Move	$ 85
Control	$ 100
Monitor	$ 55
Separate	$ 110
Total	$ 380