·        Gas Turbine Air Treatment Market and Knowledge Bridge

·        Municipal Wastewater Plants Will Spend $8.3 Billion for Pumps Next Year

·        Municipal Wastewater Plants Will Spend $4.5 Billion For Valves In 2017

·        Municipal Wastewater Liquid Filtration Revenues to Exceed $1 Billion Next Year

·        Headlines for the October 4, 2013 – Utility E-Alert

·        McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

Gas Turbine Air Treatment Market and Knowledge Bridge

McIlvaine is introducing a new concept combining total knowledge for end users with market forecasts and customer access for suppliers.  The main differences between the new approach and the services on Power Plant Air Quality are (1) the narrow focus and (2) the fact that the services are free of charge to the end user.

The first services are MACT decisions for Industrial Boilers and Gas Turbine Air Treatment. Here are the details on the gas turbine offering:

Market research should not be independent of the purpose for which it is funded. It should be the traffic control for vehicles on the knowledge bridge to the purchaser. McIlvaine provides both the traffic control and the vehicles in the Gas Turbine Air Treatment Market and Knowledge Bridge.

The concept of integration of market research as the traffic control for the various sales vehicles is explained at:

4 Lane Knowledge Bridge to the End User
 

McIlvaine is not only creating vehicles but is creating the bridge itself in Power Plant Air Quality Decisions.  It is now duplicating this format (except that it will be free to turbine operators) in the Gas Turbine Air Treatment Global Decisions Positioning System (GDPS).

This system empowers the purchaser to select the best air treatment components for his application. This whole concept is explained at:

Global Decisions Positioning System^™ (GDPS)

The Gas Turbine Air Treatment Market and Knowledge Bridge integrates in a superior way for the supplier to fine tune his strategy and then execute it.

Products and Services Included in the System:

The system addresses the initial capital purchase and the operating and maintenance opportunities.

It covers materials and coatings as well as valves, pumps and other system sub-components. 

Gas Turbine Air Treatment Global Decisions Positioning System^™ (GDPS).  The GDPS is a very effective knowledge bridge to the purchaser. Since operators can have access to this system free of charge and since it saves time and results in better decisions, it is going to be utilized to its fullest. If the supplier can make the case for providing the best product, it will be very effective.  He can make this case by using all the vehicles which travel on the 4 lanes of the bridge. Some of these vehicles are provided in the basic subscription. Others can be added.

Gas Turbine Air Treatment needs to be viewed as an Integrated System by the purchaser of the components. This requires navigating a number of different decision trees. McIlvaine is making this task easier with the Gas Turbine Air Treatment Global Decisions Positioning System™ (GDPS). This service is provided free of charge to operators of turbines. Access to the system is also part of this Gas Turbine Air Treatment Markets and Knowledge Bridge

Two recent developments in gas turbine air treatment are the expanded use of HEPA filters for gas turbine intake air and SCR with both CO and NO_x catalyst for the tail-end gas. Some dust that the inlet filter does not remove is going to deposit on the catalyst. A facility can use a very small catalyst pitch and save lots of money, but the increase in pressure loss along with deposition will increase operating cost and decrease electricity output. Therefore, the choice of inlet filter needs to be viewed initially in terms of catalyst pitch selection and then in terms of catalyst life. 

First in California and now in other places, the stack gas emission limits are lower than the ambient air particulate matter concentration. In these cases, the inlet air filter becomes a key element in stack gas compliance. Gas turbine inlet ambient air undergoes a series of treatments. The initial treatment is to remove large weather-related contaminants e.g., snow, rain, etc. The humidity and temperature of the ambient air are also adjusted to increase the weight and, therefore, electrical output. This treatment can range from fogging nozzles to a full air conditioning system. Droplets are formed, coalesced and removed. Particulate filtration can be with a series of filters ranging from coarse to HEPA or it can take place with self-cleaning cartridges.

One alternative for NO_x control during combustion is the low NO_x burner. Another alternate is water injection. Once the air has been mixed with the gas and combusted, it passes through other systems in the gas path. In a combined cycle process there is likely to be a duct burner to adjust HRSG steam temperature. This can add to the pollutants.  CO and NO_x catalysts are also utilized. However, the accompanying ammonia injection can create ammonia slip which is regulated and also tends to foul the catalyst.

With single cycle systems many of the air treatment challenges are greater. If a low temperature catalyst is used, tempering air is needed. This creates a challenge in providing laminar flow to the catalyst. If a high temperature catalyst is used, higher catalyst costs are encountered and higher maintenance is possible.

The air treatment needs are not static. The higher performance turbines are more likely to be compromised by small particles. The use of gas turbines and certainly the use of SCR are expanding to applications that are more challenging. The seawater and salts found in marine applications including floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units are examples.

Application in refineries in South America where inlet air quality may be low and fuel includes less than pristine liquids is another example. The rapid cycling of turbines complementing wind and solar is another newer challenge.

The changes and increasing complexity relative to gas turbine air treatment have demonstrated the need for a system to aid decision makers. McIlvaine is addressing this need with Gas Turbine Air Treatment Global Decisions Positioning System^™ (GDPS).

For more information on Gas Turbine Air Treatment Market and Knowledge Bridge, click on:

http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/28-energy/610-59ei.

Municipal Wastewater Plants Will Spend $8.3 Billion for Pumps Next Year

Led by East Asia, municipal wastewater treatment plants around the world will spend $8.35 billion for pumps in 2014.  This is the latest forecasts in Pumps World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company.

(www.mcilvainecompany.com.

Pump Municipal Wastewater Revenues ($ Millions)

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Nearly $6 billion will be spent on centrifugal pumps.  Rotary pumps will account for just under $1 billion in expenditures.  The remainder is divided between diaphragm and reciprocating pumps.

A significant portion of the total expenditure will be for the transport of sewage from households and other generation points to the plants. Within the plant there is primary treatment usually followed by secondary treatment and in some cases tertiary treatment.

Sludge dewatering is one of the processes incorporated in secondary treatment.  In one of the typical processes, pumps are used to:

·         Move activated sludge to the gravity belt thickener

·         Move  thickened waste sludge to the sludge digester

·         Move digested sludge to a belt press or centrifuge

·         Move dewatered sludge to dryer or landfill

Pumps can move dewatered sludges long distances and result in lower capital and operating costs than using mechanical conveyors.

For more information on   Pumps World Markets, click on:

http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=75

Municipal Wastewater Liquid Filtration Revenues to Exceed $1 Billion Next Year

Municipal wastewater plants around the world for the first time will spend more than $1 billion for filters and replacement cloths/belts in 2014.  This is the conclusion reached in Liquid Filtration and Media World Market published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Liquid Filtration Revenues – Municipal Wastewater Treatment ($ Millions)

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Belt filter presses will comprise more than half the purchases with gravity media filters, filter presses and other filter types comprising the balance.

Despite projected annual growth of 4%/yr., the filter revenues will be a decreasing percentage of the municipal wastewater dewatering investment. The total dewatering market is growing at 6 percent per year.  This is due mainly to the gains achieved by centrifuge suppliers. 

Larger plants find that a few centrifuges can do the work of many belt presses.  There is also the consideration of odor control. At one plant, three centrifuges replaced ten belt presses. A 1,500-cfm exhaust fan replaced a 12,000-cfm blower to exhaust the odorous fumes from the centrifuge operation into a sodium hypochlorite scrubber. This saved both fan energy and reagent cost.

In the developing world, belt presses are still the popular choice.  Maintenance requirements are not as complex as with centrifuges.

For more information on Liquid Filtration and Media World Market: click on:

http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=71#n006

Municipal Wastewater Plants Will Spend $4.5 Billion For Valves In 2017

Municipal wastewater plants will spend $4.5 billion for valves in 2017.  $3.4 billion will be for on/off valves, and the balance for control valves.  This is the conclusion reached in Industrial Valves: World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)Top of Form

Municipal Wastewater Valve Purchases ($ Million)

Globe valves will be the leading category with expenditures over $1 billion.  China will be the country leader.  This is due to its spectacular increase in secondary treatment capacity which has tripled in the last two decades to over 30,000 MGD.  By contrast, the U.S. capacity is only 39,000 MGD.  Only 4,000 MGD does not receive secondary treatment.  Over 90 percent of the transported sewage receives secondary treatment.

By contrast, other countries in the Americas treat anywhere from 31 percent to 79 percent of the transported sewage.  So there is a big potential for valves for new plants in these regions.  There is new construction in smaller cities in Eastern Europe. The EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive is the guiding force behind the new construction and upgrades.  Romania has until 2015 to comply, whereas, Croatia is facing a 2023 deadline.

The plant size is smaller in Europe than in the U.S.  For example France has less than 20 percent of the population of the U.S., however, it has 19,000 municipal wastewater plants compared to 16,000 in the U.S.

There are 1,900 active projects in the U.S. and Canada which will require significant valve purchases.  However, many of the projects are to replace or upgrade existing facilities rather than for additional needed capacity.  The U.S. has not modernized and renovated faculties on an acceptable twenty year cycle. Many valves are obsolete in design and should be replaced by the “intelligent valves” offered today.

For more information on Industrial Valves: World Markets, click on:

http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71#n028

Headlines for the October 4, 2013 – Utility E-Alert      

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1145 – October 4, 2013

Table of Contents 

COAL – US

§  Four Corners needs to respond to Regional Haze FIP by December 31, 2013

§  URS to install SBS Injection™ Technology at Petersburg

§  Court could Rule EPA must act on Coal Ash Rule

§  Muscatine Power and Water to apply ChemMod^® to Coal before firing for Mercury and NO_x Control

COAL – WORLD 

• Hubco to convert Power Plant from Fuel Oil to Coal-fired in Pakistan
• Egypt plans Coal-fired Power Plants
• More Coal-fired Power Plants planned in Bangladesh on BOO Basis
• Marubeni to build 400-MW Pagbilao Expansion in Philippines

GAS/OIL – US

• PNM plans 177 MW of Gas-fired Capacity to replace Part of San Juan Capacity
• LG&E and KU to build Gas-fired Power Plant in Muhlenberg County
• 470 Guadalupe Peaking Power Plant has Air Permit

GAS/OIL – WORLD 

• POSCO E&C to build Underground Combined Cycle Power Plant in Seoul, South Korea

COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGIES/BOILER EFFICIENCY 

• Metso to provide Automation for Seinäjoki in Finland

CO₂

§  B&W Begins Front-End Engineering and Design Work for FutureGen 2.0 Carbon Capture Project

NUCLEAR

• AMEC awarded Environmental Impact Assessment Contract for Slovakian Nuclear Power Project

BUSINESS 

• Kenya planning 700 MW Gas-fired Power Plant near Mombasa and 900 MW Coal-fired Power Plant in Lamu
• Alstom unveils Advanced CFB Boiler
• Fuel Tech Orders in China
• Power Plants Lead and Follow in Mercury Reduction
• New Greenhouse Gas Standards for Coal-fired Power Should Make Exception for Beneficial Waste Steam Use

HOT TOPIC HOUR

• “Update on Coal Ash and CCR Issues, Standards and Solutions” Hot Topic Hour” on October 3, 2013
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

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.

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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