·        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

·        Liquid Cartridge Revenues to Exceed $16 Billion in 2013

·        McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

·        Headlines for the August 24, 2012 – Utility E-Alert

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

In 2013 the worldwide sales of air and water monitoring equipment and services will be $22 billion. Asia will account for 45 percent of the total.

Asian Sales of Air and Water Monitoring ($ Millions)

Industry                                 2013

Asphalt                                         33

Bioclean                                       12

Chemical                                    120

Commercial & Residential      2,446

Electronics                                 104

FGD                                           387

Food                                           112

Gas Turbines                                78

Government & Academia       1,827

Incinerators                                145

Metals                                        219

Mining                                        123

Oil & Gas                                   125

Other Industries                         309

Pharmaceutical                             31

Power                                      1,791

Pulp & Paper                              257

Refining                                     319

Steel                                             91

Stone                                          219

Surface Coating                           22

Municipal Wastewater               532

Municipal Water                        801

Total                                      10,103

Air and water monitoring revenues include sales of laboratory, continuous and portable instruments and systems. These include process gases and liquids as well as exhaust gases and liquid waste streams. The values reported include physical properties such as flow and temperature as well as chemical constituents such as ammonia or cadmium.

Power is the largest industrial user of air and water monitoring equipment.  These plants extract more water than any other industry and discharge more gases to the atmosphere than all the other industries combined. Process gas instrumentation includes measurement of oxygen, carbon monoxide, temperature and flow.  It also includes related measurements such as fuel flow. 

Laboratory equipment is also included. Often a solid e.g. filter catch is measured to determine the constituents in the air or gas. Where the analysis of the raw material is necessary for pollution control purposes, this is also included. Many regulations affecting pollution control in coal-fired power plants require measuring the sulfur or mercury in the coal being burned.  In the cement industry, the metals are measured in the limestone feed as well as in the stack gas.

The power industry in Asia is investing more than the rest of the world combined in boosting electrical capacity. Asia also leads in the expansion of municipal water and wastewater. Municipalities in Asia will spend $1.2 billion for air and water instrumentation next year. Most will be for water quality. However, odor control is a big problem and will require a significant investment in portable test equipment.

The trend is away from laboratory testing and towards continuous monitoring. Municipalities presently have large investments in laboratories and considerable operating expense devoted to periodic sampling. This will be sharply reduced as these plants invest in systems which will continuously monitor and control the processes.

For more information on Air & Water Pollution Monitoring World Markets:  http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106extsup1.asp

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

Eighty major companies participating in the air, gas, water, fluid treatment and control market expect their 2013 sales to be $114 billion up from $108 billion in 2012 for an average gain of 5.2 percent. The mean gain is 5.6 percent (the projected sales for the company ranked #41).  The McIlvaine Company in its report, Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets, is projecting sales in this market to increase worldwide from $323 billion in 2012 to $339 billion (in non-inflated 2010 dollars).

Many of the companies participating in this market derive the majority of their sales from products outside the scope of this forecast. These 80 larger companies generate only 15 percent of the revenues in this market. The conclusion is that the larger companies will be growing at the same rate as the total market.

Companies headquartered in Asia (with the exception of Japan) will in general be growing faster than companies headquartered in Europe and the Americas.

Future sales forecasts of each of the 80 companies are an aggregate of forecasts by the companies or by the analysts who follow their stocks most closely.  Individual forecasts ranged from a negative 3 percent to a positive 22 percent.

 Low Growth Companies (Revenues $ Millions)

 In the case of companies projecting lower sales in 2013, the reason is exceptionally high increases in 2011 or 2012

High Growth Companies (Revenues $ Millions)

The companies projecting higher sales ranged from those with steady high growth to companies which expect to rebound from low or negative growth.

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Liquid Cartridge Revenues to Exceed $16 Billion in 2013

Sales of cartridges to purify liquids will exceed $16 billion next year.  This is the most recent forecast in

Cartridge Filters: World Market published by the McIlvaine Company.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Cartridge Revenues ($ Millions)

The biggest segment is carbon. The market for carbon filters for residential and commercial applications includes filters in pitchers and ice making systems. The filters improve the taste of water.  For industrial applications, carbon filters compete with granular carbon.

Non-woven cartridge sales will exceed $4.6 billion in 2012. These cartridges are widely used in industry and in both point-of-entry and point-of-use in residential and commercial applications.  Automotive and other mobile cartridges and those used in fluid power applications are not included in the scope of this report. Otherwise the non-woven segment would be the largest cartridge segment (automotive and fluid power filters are analyzed in other McIlvaine reports).

Membrane cartridge sales will exceed $4 billion next year.  The chemical and pharmaceutical industries are major purchasers. Membrane cartridges are also used in many other industries. The semiconductor industry uses point-of-use membrane cartridges to capture any contaminants generated in the piping between the reverse osmosis system and the tool.  Membrane cartridges are distinguished from cross-flow membranes in that they are dead end filters. All the liquid flows through the cartridge. Cross-flow membrane filters reject a portion of the liquid which then flows across the membrane and is discharged. Cross-flow membrane filters are analyzed in the McIlvaine report RO/UF/MF World Markets.

Metal cartridges are used in high temperature applications such as polymer purification in the petrochemical industry. String wound cartridges are used in paint purification and a number of applications where their low cost makes them attractive.

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Here are the Headlines for the August 24, 2012 – Utility E-Alert

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1089 – August 24, 2012

Table of Contents

COAL – US

• Court vacates Cross-State Air Pollution Rule
• Cross-State Air Decision Will Have Only Minor Impact on the Equipment Market
• South Carolina Electric & Gas settles Lawsuit regarding Discharge of Arsenic
• Sunflower Electric back at Kansas Supreme Court with 895 MW Holcomb Project
• Clyde Bergemann Power Group Americas receives Major Utility’s Order to achieve EPA MATS Rule Compliance
• Court says TVA is Legally Responsible for Coal Sludge Spill
• Big Rivers backs off on Air Pollution Control Equipment

COAL – WORLD

• Parsons Brinckerhoff doing Engineering for 1800 MW Ncondezi Project in Mozambique
• Possible 240-400 MW Power Plant in Sarangani Province, Philippines
• 4x60 MW JAL Project at Churk in Robertsganj tehsil of Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, India rejected
• AES Gener building 532 MW Cochrane in Chile
• MPX Energia reaches Agreement with Opposition of 2,100-MW Hacienda Castilla Power Plant in Chile
• China Gezhouba to build 1000 MW Power Plant in Malawi
• Chinese Firm says Overuse led to Failures at Norochcholai

GAS/OIL / US

• Gas-fired Power Plant in Florida may be expanded

GAS/OIL WORLD

§  KBR picked to manage construction of 242 MW Diamantina in Australia

CO₂

• CCS Project at Southern Co.’s Plant Barry Begins Storing CO₂ Underground 

BIOMASS

• IHI to convert Small California Power Plants to Biomass-firing

NUCLEAR

§  Darlington Nuclear Power Project in Canada receives Site Preparation License

• Kazakhstan to decide by End of Year on Nuclear Power Plant
• Alstom/BHEL will supply Turbine Generator Package for Rajasthan 7 and 8 in India

BUSINESS

• Sinclair Oil to install SCR at Wyoming Facilities
• Fuel Tech ULTRA Orders in China
• Reliance Power and China Datong set up Joint Venture to Operate and Maintain Power Plants
• E.ON backs off on Construction in Europe until 2020

HOT TOPIC HOUR

• Hot Topic Hour August 24 covered Highlights of MEGA
• Hot Topic Hour for August 30, 2012 Will Focus on “Pumps for Power Plants”
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

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