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· Upgrade Projects Costing $ Billions Underway At North American Municipal Drinking Water Plants
· Liquid and Air Filter Element Sales Will Exceed $34 Billion This Year
· Headlines for the September 13, 2013 – Utility E-Alert
· McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration
Upgrade Projects Costing $ Billions Underway At North American Municipal Drinking Water Plants
The 18,000 plants in North America which are extracting water and purifying it for residential, commercial and industrial use have committed to spend $ billions to upgrade their facilities. These projects are tracked bi-weekly in the McIlvaine North American Public Water Plants and People. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
Types of expenditures can be classified as new facilities to expand supply, new facilities to replace facilities being retired, upgrading of older facilities and routine maintenance and replacement. In North America, the upgrades are the leading sector in terms of investment.
Upgrades can be triggered by consumer demand for better quality, new regulations limiting contamination levels, improved reliability or by maintenance reduction.
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Representative Upgrade Projects at North American Municipal Drinking Water Plants |
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City |
State |
Equipment |
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Westerville |
0H |
Pressurized activated carbon filters |
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Chickasha |
OK |
$150 million overhaul to improve taste, odor and appearance |
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Kitanning |
PA |
Chemical storage and feed |
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Pulaski |
VA |
Hydraulic to electric valves, digital controls, chemical feeders – first upgrade since 1989 |
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Salida |
CO |
Upgrade granular media filter and chemical feed system in this plant built in 1959 |
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Florence |
AL |
Miex system for dissolved organic carbon removal |
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Glasgow |
KY |
20 year upgrade |
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Nyssa |
OR |
Reduce arsenic to meet Federal requirement |
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Bay County |
MI |
Membrane filtration system |
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Saratoga Springs |
NY |
Replace filters which have been operating for 40 years |
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North Brevard |
FL |
Reduce TTHMs to below Federal long-term limit |
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Peace River |
Alberta CA |
New fluoridation system |
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Bethalto |
IL |
New filters and pumps |
Many of the upgrades are taking place at plants which are more than 50 years old. Some operators have scheduled major upgrades every 20 years.
For more information on North American Public Water Plants and People, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=71#n67ei
Liquid and Air Filter Element Sales Will Exceed $34 Billion This Year
Sales of filter element to separate particles from air, gases, water, oil and other liquids will exceed $34 billion in 2013. This is the latest forecast in the McIlvaine Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
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Filter Element Revenues $ Millions 2013 |
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Application |
Liquid |
Air |
Total |
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Power Generation |
100 |
1,500 |
1,600 |
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Fluid Power |
2,200 |
400 |
2,600 |
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Mobile |
5,000 |
3,000 |
8,000 |
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Municipal |
800 |
40 |
840 |
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Residential/Commercial |
7,000 |
5,000 |
12,000 |
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Oil and Gas |
300 |
400 |
700 |
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Industrial, Other |
5,000 |
4,000 |
9,000 |
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Total |
20,400 |
14,340 |
34,740 |
The largest single segment is the residential/commercial. This includes furnace, refrigerator and other air and water filters used in residences, office buildings and other governmental and commercial enterprises. Carbon block, membranes and non-woven filter media are used.
The industrial sector is the next largest. Filter element used in stack gas purification comprises the bulk of the air applications. Membrane and non-woven filter element used in pharmaceutical applications account for nearly 40 percent of the liquid portion of the industrial sector.
Mobile includes on-road as well as off-road vehicles, ships, rail locomotives and airplanes. Applications include filtration of fuel, coolant and intake air. Cabin air and components requiring lubrication. Fluid power includes both pneumatic and hydraulic filters.
The oil and gas sector uses extensive numbers of coalescing filter element to remove entrained droplets from gases. Liquid filter elements are used on a variety of applications.
Clarcor and Donaldson are two companies whose products are available in most of the sectors. Affinia concentrates just on the fluid power and mobile aftermarket. Cummins is primarily in the mobile sector. Parker Hannifin offers products for many sectors. However, unlike Donaldson and Clarcor, it does not offer the stack gas cartridges.
A number of media companies such as Ahlstrom, Lydall and Hollingsworth & Vose have products in all the sectors.
For more information on Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71
Headlines for the September 13, 2013 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1142 – September 13, 2013
Table of Contents
COAL – US
§ DOJ wants to add Belle River 1, 2, Monroe 1, 3 and Trenton Channel 9 to NSR Lawsuit
§ Cabot Norit to provide Two ACI Systems
§ Cayuga conversion to Natural Gas is up to $924.3 less Costly than Power Line Upgrades
§ OG&E asks Court to dismiss EPA’s NSR Lawsuit against Muskogee and Sooner
§ Virginia Electric and Power Bremo Power Plant to convert to Natural Gas-firing
COAL – WORLD
GAS/OIL – US
GAS/OIL – WORLD
NUCLEAR
BUSINESS
HOT TOPIC HOUR
For more information on the Utility Tracking System, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72.
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 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.
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DATE |
Non-Subscribers Cost |
SUBJECT |
Webinar Type |
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September 26th and 27th 2013 |
$125.00 |
Multi-pollutant Control Technology |
Power |
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October 3, 2013 |
$125.00 |
Update on Coal Ash and CCP Issues and Standards |
Power |
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October 17, 2013 |
$125.00 |
Air Pollution Control in China |
Power |
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October 31, 2013 |
$125.00 |
Chinese FGD/SCR Program and Impact on the World |
Power |
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November 21, 2013 |
$125.00 |
Wet vs. Dry ESP |
Power |
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December 5, 2013 |
$125.00 |
Update on Gasification Projects and Technology |
Power |
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December 12, 2013 |
$125.00 |
Selecting FGD Scrubber Components |
Power |
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December 19, 2013 |
$125.00 |
Application of U.S. Mercury Control Technology in Other Countries |
Power |
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.
To register for the Hot Topic Hour, click on:
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