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· Networking At Filtration on Fabrics for Coal-Fired Boilers and Gas Turbine Inlet Filters

McIlvaine has created and will update six route maps at Power-Gen up to and even throughout the show. These route maps will be easily accessed by mobile phone. Phone numbers and e-mails are provided, so you can arrange meetings. We will also be introducing subjects for discussion. There are lots of important developments in each of the areas.

There are some good speeches on the coal residue wastewater cleanup. The e-mails and phone numbers of speakers and panelists are provided. There are a number of exhibitors at each decision stop. It is estimated that the CCR alone will cost the utility industry $12 billion, so it is an important route. There are at least five different ways to eliminate your ash ponds. One is mix flyash with lime and your FGD sludge and provide a chemically fixed product. URS is offering this technology.

There is only the one ABB speech, but there are lots of exhibits which can help you reduce energy costs and improve reliability with your inverter, gear box and motor choices. Several Siemens people will be contributing to this networking initiative.

There are some good speeches and lots of exhibits covering aspects of the whole treatment train from the weather protection through the filtration and coalescing, CO and NO_x reduction and silencers. One of the hot issues is whether to use the H12 or high efficiency air filters on the inlet. Donaldson, Camfill Farr and AAF say the much higher filter cost is more than offset by energy and maintenance savings.

The single cycle NO_x control is another area of debate. Do you use a high temperature catalyst or tempering air?

Lots of speeches and lots of exhibits at the many decision tree stops on this route. There is more focus on circulating dry scrubbers than on limestone wet FGD. How times have changed. If you are interested in the Chinese market, you may want to track down Joe Wang of Longking. He was a speaker last year, but is roving this year.

At the Neumann stand you can learn about recovery of sorbent in the DSI process. This could make DSI more competitive.

We have a matrix with exhibitors for many applications within Power. The big FGD pumps are major purchases for utilities. The boiler feedwater pumps are critical items and huge energy consumers.

There is a matrix with exhibitor stand listings for many power applications for valves. We had hoped to also add live links to more specific application information for each exhibitor. We are encouraging the valve companies to provide this over the next few days. So keep checking the site even during the show.

Networking At Filtration on Fabrics for Coal-Fired Boilers and Gas Turbine Inlet Filters

Filtration 2013 will be held at the same time as Power-Gen. Two of the four route maps at Filtration will be on power-related subjects. We are also innovating with an integration of the route maps with the social media discussion groups created by the organizer. Visitors will be able to ask or answer questions and debate issues during the show.

Sales of fabric filter bags and systems will be just under $12 billion in 2014. This forecast appears in World Fabric Filter and Element Market published by McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Subject	2014
Bags	2,825
Equipment	4,074
Media	1,593
Systems	8,964

The media manufacturers will generate roll goods revenues of $1.6 billion. Nearly half this total will be intracompany. In Europe and Asia, the roll goods supplier also makes the bags or sub-contracts the bag sewing. In the U.S. the two functions are generally separate. Some international companies such as Andrew will sell the roll goods in the U.S. but the finished bags in other parts of the world.

The equipment manufacturers can sell just the fabric filter or they can supply complete systems with ductwork, fans and dust removal. The average installed price is more than four times the equipment price. However, the typical system sale includes only part of the total system. On the average this amounts to 2.2 times the equipment sales revenue.

Smaller collectors used in wood working, metal grinding and for various nuisance dust applications are typically sold as equipment units. However, the fan and motor may be included and the package shipped on a skid.

Larger applications for coal-fired boiler exhausts are typically bid as complete systems. Alstom and Babcock &Wilcox are two major boiler manufacturers who are also fabric filter system suppliers. The fabric filter systems are often sold as part of a complete boiler package. FLSmidth is both a cement kiln producer and a fabric filter system supplier. It typically will sell a fabric filter system as part of a new kiln package.

China is the biggest growth market. Tough particulate regulations will guarantee double-digit growth in this country.

The market for dry scrubbers applied to industrial processes is projected to exceed $500 million next year and then to grow to double-digit rates over the next five years. This is the forecast by the McIlvaine Company in Scrubber/Adsorber/Biofilter World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Industry	2014
Total	532
Chemical	25
Electronics	10
Incinerators	361
Metals	58
Other Industries	78

The wet scrubbers now dominate the $6.8 billion market. But new technology promises to change the balance. Dry scrubbers have been used routinely in waste-to-energy plants. However, they have not been widely used in other industrial applications.

One advancement which will increase the market penetration has been the circulating dry scrubber of CDS. This all dry option competes with spray drier absorbers (SDA) and has one big advantage. The SDA quantitative removal is limited by acid dew point. Since a slurry is injected and then evaporated, there is a limited amount of slurry which can be utilized without causing condensation of acids in the gas stream. The CDS relies on separate humidity control. The removal is a function of the solids in suspension. This allows higher quantitative removal of acid gases.

Another innovation has been the development of higher reactive lime sorbents. These sorbents can be used in a third process known as dry sorbent injection of DSI. High acid gas removal can be achieved without the investment of a scrubber. The sorbent is injected ahead of the fabric filter.

There are more than 600,000 industrial boilers in China that must face new regulations. Industrial boilers and cement plants in the U.S. are facing stringent air toxic regulations including the reduction of hydrogen chloride emissions. These two countries will be major purchasers of dry scrubbers over the next five years.

More electricity was generated from the Tennessee Valley Authority's 29 hydroelectric dams in fiscal year 2013, which ended Sept. 30, 2013, than any year in the agency's 80-year history.

The dams provided 18.5 million megawatt-hours of clean, renewable energy, breaking the previous record set in 1973 by 122,000 MWh. That is enough electricity to serve more than 1.2 million homes in the TVA service area for an entire year.

Above average rain and runoff fueled the increase in hydro generation. The Tennessee Valley received almost 62 inches of rainfall and almost 30 inches of runoff in fiscal 2013, which were 121 percent and 136 percent of normal, respectively. Runoff is the amount of rainfall that actually reaches streams and creeks, and eventually the Tennessee River, its tributaries and TVA's dams.

While some of TVA's dams are as old as the agency, TVA has continued to upgrade and modernize their components. Since 1992, TVA has upgraded 55 of its 109 conventional hydro generating units, gaining 442 megawatts of capacity for the system. In August, the TVA board of directors approved $350 million for additional hydro modernizations to 51 units that will increase their capacity by 184 megawatts.

During an average year, TVA's reservoir operations avert approximately $250 million in flood damage. TVA estimates it has averted nearly $7 billion in flood damage since it completed its first dam, Norris Dam, in 1936.

GS Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. (GS E&C), has chosen Metso to supply automation for the Dangjin 4 Biomass Power Plant, currently under construction in Dangjin City, about 70 km southwest of Seoul in South Korea. Once completed in 2015, the 105 MW plant will be the largest of its kind in Asia.

The plant will be fueled with a mix consisting of 80 percent palm kernel shells and 20 percent coal. With Metso’s advanced automation applications, it is possible to control even difficult fuel mixes with varying fuel ratios.

Metso’s delivery scope includes a Metso DNA automation system (DCS) for the whole power plant, including the CFB boiler, Balance of Plant and electric network. It also includes a Plant Performance Application and systems for thermal stress monitoring and vibration monitoring – all integrated into the control system. Commissioning of the new plant is planned for August 2015.

Abengoa’s Solana, the First Large Scale Solar Plant with a Thermal Energy Storage System in the U.S., Begins Commercial Operation

Abengoa has announced that Solana, the world´s largest parabolic trough plant with a total installed capacity of 280 MW (gross) and also the first solar plant in the U.S. with thermal energy storage, has successfully passed commercial operation tests. This milestone marks a major accomplishment for Abengoa and the Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) industry.

Solana is the first solar plant in the U.S. with a thermal energy storage system that is able to generate electricity for six hours without the concurrent use of the solar field, which is a turning point for renewable energy in this country, being a tangible demonstration that solar energy can be stored and dispatched upon demand.

Solana, located near Gila Bend and about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, AZ, began construction in 2010 and on October 7, 2013 successfully fulfilled production forecasts required to date and testing for commercial operation. These tests included operating at the turbine’s full capacity while charging the thermal storage system, continuing to produce electricity after the sun went down, and starting up the plant and producing 6 hours of electricity using only the thermal storage system. These tests successfully demonstrated the various operation modes of the plant’s operation.

Abengoa’s first utility-scale solar plant in the U.S. employs parabolic trough technology. This technology consists of parabolic shaped mirrors mounted on structures that track the sun and concentrate the sun’s heat, later transforming water into steam and powering a conventional steam turbine. This mature technology has additional value since the heat can also be stored and used to produce clean electricity after the sun goes down or during a transitory period.

Lockheed Martin and Reignwood Group Sign Contract to Develop Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Power Plant

Lockheed Martin and Reignwood Group have signed a contract to start design of a 10-megawatt Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) power plant, which, when complete, will be the largest OTEC project to date.

Lockheed Martin is the industry leader in the development of OTEC technology, holding 19 related patents. The Lockheed Martin-Reignwood 10-megawatt plant is considered to be a crucial step in the full commercialization of OTEC.

Under this initial contract, Lockheed Martin will provide project management, design and systems engineering services.

In addition to the contract signing, Lockheed Martin also joined Reignwood Group in celebrating the ribbon cutting of Reignwood’s new Innovative Technology Center, located at their corporate Beijing headquarters. The Innovative Technology Center is designed after Lockheed Martin’s Energy Solutions Center in Arlington, VA, which showcases new ideas for alternative energy generation and energy infrastructure.

Ameresco, Inc., joined with local California officials and energy industry leaders to commemorate the completion of its 1.4 megawatt (MW) landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) project at the Johnson Canyon Landfill in Gonzales, CA.

Ameresco designed, permitted, constructed and now operates the LFGTE facility at the Johnson Canyon Landfill in Gonzales, which is owned by SVSWA. Ameresco Johnson Canyon, LLC has a gas agreement with SVSWA to purchase the landfill gas for use in their plant, and signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the City of Palo Alto for the renewable energy. A portion of the revenues from the sale of that power will be returned to the SVSWA for the duration of the contract.

Ameresco’s LFGTE plant safely diverts landfill gas through extraction wells and pipes it to a landfill gas-to-energy plant, where it is cleaned before specialized engines convert it to electricity for sale to the electrical marketplace. The LFGTE facilities also improve greenhouse gas compliance and provide revenue for landfill owners while providing end users with a clean, renewable option for their energy.

§ The Huge Chinese Investment in FGD and SCR will Change the Air Pollution Industry

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.

DATE	Non-Subscribers Cost	SUBJECT	Webinar Type
November 21, 2013	$125.00	Wet vs Dry ESP	Power
December 5, 2013	$125.00	Update on Gasification Projects and Technology	Power
December 12, 2013	$125.00	Selecting FGD Scrubber Components	Power
December 19, 2013	$125.00	Application of U.S. Mercury Control Technology in Other Countries	Power
January 9, 2014	$125.00	Improving ESP Performance	Power
January 16, 2014	$125.00	Corrosion Issues and Materials for APC Systems	Power
January 23, 2014	$125.00	Co-Firing Sewage Sludge, Biomass and Municipal Waste	Power
January 30, 2014	$125.00	Impact of Ambient Air Quality Rules on Fossil Fueled Boilers and Gas Turbines	Power
February 6, 2014	$125.00	Review of EUEC	Power
February 13, 2014	$125.00	NOx Catalyst Performance on Mercury and SO3	Power
February 20, 2014	$125.00	CFB Technology and Clean Coal (Update on CFB Reactor Technology)	Power
February 27, 2014	$125.00	Dry FGD: Spray Dry vs. CFB vs. DSI	Power
March 6, 2014	$125.00	Update on IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle)	Power
March 13, 2014	$125.00	Update on Oxy-Fuel Combustion	Power
March 20, 2014	$125.00	Air Preheaters & Heat Exchangers	Power
March 27, 2014	$125.00	Mercury Control and Removal	Power
April 3, 2014	$125.00	HRSG Design, Operation and Maintenance Considerations	Power
April 10, 2014	$125.00	Measurement and Control Instrumentation for Power Plants	Power
April 17, 2014	$125.00	Measurement and Control of PM2.5	Power
April 24, 2014	$125.00	Status of Carbon-to-Liquid Projects and Technology	Power
May 1, 2014	$125.00	Renewable Energy, Status, Options, Technology Update	Power
May 8, 2014	$125.00	Valves for Power Plant Steam and Cooling Water	Power
May 15, 2014	$125.00	Water Treatment During Gas and Oil Production	Power
May 22, 2014	$125.00	Advances in Coal Blending	Power
May 29, 2014	$125.00	Clean Coal Technologies	Power
June 5, 2014	$125.00	Material Handling in Fossil Fueled Power Plants	Power
June 12, 2014	$125.00	Industrial Boiler MACT - Impact and Control Options	Power
June 19, 2014	$125.00	Multi-emissions Control Technologies	Power
June 26, 2014	$125.00	Next Generation of Coal Combustion Technologies	Power
July 10, 2014	$125.00	Compliance Strategies for PM2.5