Water Market Insights  
No. 23  October 19,  2012   

 

 

 

 

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·        “Instrumentation for Air, Gas, Water, Liquids (forecasts, market shares and growth segments)” “Hot Topic Hour” on October 25, 2012

·        McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

·        Headlines for the October 12, 2012 – Utility E-Alert

·        Industrial Pump Revenues Will Exceed $38 Billion Next Year

·        25 Percent of the Cartridge Market is Now in East Asia

 

Instrumentation for Air, Gas, Water, Liquids (forecasts, market shares and growth segments)” is “Hot Topic Hour” on October 25, 2012

Markets for air and water instrumentation in the power industry is the hot topic for October 25, 2012.  The $1.7 billion annual market for air and water monitoring and control instrumentation in power plants will be analyzed and opportunities discussed in the McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour at 10 a.m. (Central time) on October 25th.

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. The trend is away from laboratory testing and towards continuous monitoring.

Market shares and strength of major players will be also reviewed. Thermo Fisher is the largest supplier of air and water monitoring instrumentation to power plants. The company has aggressively expanded into the developing markets and even has its international air research center in China.

This session is free for subscribers, but is $400 for non-subscribers. However, this fee can then be applied to the Air and Water Monitoring Market report subscription.

 

For more information on the session, click on:

http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/hot_topic_hour_registration.htm.

 

McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

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 Environmental Upgrade Tracking System. The cost is $125.00 for non-subscribers.

Market Intelligence webinars are free to McIlvaine market report.

 

2012

 

DATE

SUBJECT

 

October 25

Instrumentation for air, gas, water, liquids (forecasts, market shares, growth segments).

Market Intelligence

November 1

Cooling Towers and Cooling Water Issues

Power

November 8

FGD Scrubber Components

Power

November 15

Dampers and Expansion Joints for Coal-fired and Gas Turbine Power Plants

Power

November 29

Catalyst Selection for NOx and Other Gases

Power

December 6

Boiler Feed and Cooling Water Treatment

Power

December 13

Co-firing Sewage Sludge, Biomass and Municipal Waste

Power

 

2013

 

January 10

Update on Oxy-fuel Combustion

Power

January 17

Production of Fertilizer and Sulfuric Acid at Coal-fired Power Plants                  

Power

January 24

Gypsum Dewatering

Power

January 31

Filter media (forecasts and market drivers for media used in air, gas, liquid, fluid applications, both mobile and stationary).

Market Intelligence

February 7

Valves for Power Plants, Boilers and Water Treatment Facilities

Power

To register for the Hot Topic Hour, click on:

http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/hot_topic_hour_registration.htm.

 

Here are the Headlines for the October 12, 2012 – Utility E-Alert

 UTILITY E-ALERT

#1096 – October 12, 2012

Table of Contents

COAL – US

§  Hoot Lake Coal-fired Power Plant will stay in operation through 2020

§  Ottumwa 726 MW Power Plant will be upgraded by B&W and Burns & McDonnell

§  EPA approves Texas' Air Permitting Program

§  Breen Energy Solutions wins Sorbent Injection Contracts

COAL – WORLD

 

GAS/OIL / US

 


GAS/OIL WORLD

 

§  Myanmar and South Korean Companies to build Gas-fired Power Plant

§  Siemens to upgrade Two Gas-fired Power Plants in Argentina

§  Tokyo Gas and Showa Shell to add Gas-fired Unit at Ohgishima Power Plant

§  TNB wins Bid to develop Combined Cycle Power Plant in Prai, Penang, Malaysia

§  Wärtsilä-led Consortium awarded Contract to build 573 MW Tri-fuel Power Plant in Jordan

§  ABB wins $65 Million in Orders in support of Gas-fired Power Plants in Iraq

§  Shell (Philippines) to supply Meralco’s 1,200 Gas-fired Power Plant with Liquefied Natural Gas

CO2

NUCLEAR

BUSINESS

HOT TOPIC HOUR

For more information on the Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System, click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/energy.html#42ei.

 

Industrial Pump Revenues Will Exceed $38 Billion Next Year

Sales of industrial pumps will exceed $38 billion in 2013 according to the latest forecasts in Pumps World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Pump Revenues ($ Millions)

World Region

2013

Africa

 1,481

CIS

 1,743

East Asia

12,449

Eastern Europe

   890

Middle East

 2,076

NAFTA

 7,975

South & Central America

 2,324

West Asia

 2,571

Western Europe

 6,915

Total

38,424

Thirty-two percent of the market next year will be in East Asia. China will spend more for power plant pumps than the rest of the word combined.  China will be the leading purchaser of pumps for municipal drinking water and municipal wastewater. The migration of hundreds of millions of people from rural areas to Chinese cities has created the need for infrastructure investment.

The investment for oil and gas pumps will help boost the NAFTA pump market next hear to just under $8 billion. Pumps for hydrofracturing of shale are in short supply. The significant expenditures in Pennsylvania are being exceeded by those in North Dakota and adjacent states which are able to extract oil from shale.

The African and South/Central Americas regions will benefit from an increase investment in mining pumps. These include not only the pumps used for processes such as size reduction and separation, but for the transport of slurries for long distances from the mine to the processing plant.  The mines are often hundreds of miles from the coast where the processing plant and ultimate shipment take place. Transportation of the ore as a slurry is often the most economical mode.  Gold, copper and iron ore processes utilize slurries. Even if the mine is a short distance from the processing plant, a slurry pipeline is the most economic choice.  Coal is typically washed and, therefore, delivery as slurry to the plant is not a problem.   For dry processing operations, there is justification for slurry pipelines only if distances exceed 200 km or there is no road or infrastructure for alternative delivery.

High growth areas for pump suppliers include aquaculture, ballast water treatment and desalination. The recent announcement of a large new desalination plant in California is indicative of the increasing attractiveness of seawater vs. freshwater for new water supplies.

For more information on: Pumps World Markets, click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/water.html#N019

 

25 Percent of the Cartridge Market is Now in East Asia

In 2013, sales of cartridges in East Asia to purify liquids will exceed $4.3 billion in 2013 and will account for more than 25 percent of total world sales.  This is the latest forecast of the McIlvaine Company in its report, Cartridge Filters: World Market.   

Cartridge Filter Revenues, East Asia ($ Millions)

Bottom of Form

Industry

2013

 Chemical

 231

 Commercial - Point of Entry

 224

 Commercial - Point of Use

 628

 Electronics

 266

 Food

 172

 Healthcare

 263

 Metals

 87

 Oil & Gas

 28

 Other Industries

 207

 Pharmaceutical

 518

 Power

 114

 Residential - Point of Entry

 203

 Residential - Point of Use

 1,016

 Wastewater

 84

 Water

 274

Total

4,315

The poor quality of municipal drinking water has led East Asian homeowners to utilize point-of-use filters in far greater numbers than residents of Europe and North America. In 2013, purchases of residential point-of-use and point-of-entry filters in East Asia will exceed $1.2 billion.

The pharmaceutical and chemical companies in East Asia will purchase substantial numbers of high price membrane cartridges.  Sales of cartridges for these applications in the region will exceed $700 million.

Semiconductor and other electronic plants will also be major purchasers of the higher priced and more efficient membrane cartridges. The food industry will buy a range of cartridges including those made of ceramic and metal materials for processes where high temperature sterilization is necessary.

Cartridges compete with bag filters and automatic backwash filters.  They can be constructed from a wide range of materials to achieve the efficiency and performance needed. The disadvantage is that they are not cleanable and must be replaced periodically.

For more information on: Cartridge Filters: World Market, click on:   http://www.mcilvainecompany.com//brochures/water.html#nO24.

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