$400 Billion Flow Control and Treatment Market Analyzed and Chronicled Daily

The markets, technology and players in the global flow control and treatment industry are covered on a daily basis in the Global Decisions Orchard (GDO).

A number of free market summaries are added each week along with presentations, case histories and analyses.  Over one million pages of information is available at no charge with just simple queries.

To view the entire GDO, click on: Full Display

To search by any word, click on: Quick Search

One of the newest additions include Global Decisions Positioning Systems™ (GdPS) which serve as summaries and route maps to decision orchards on the protected portion of the site.

One of the most popular features is the identification by corporation, subsidiary, location and product for 40,000 locations. Product Analysis by Financial Entity

FINANCIAL ENTITY

·        (PT) Golden Mulionon PratamaTTGHowden North America

·        2Co Energy Limited

·        2G - Cenergy Power Systems

·        2G Energietechnik GmbH

·        3B Fibreglass

·        3DVia

·        3F Chimica Americas/ US Polymers, Inc.

·        3-L Filters Limited

·        3M

SUBSIDIARIES

·        3M Filtration Products - MN, USA

·        3M Corporation - MN, USA

·        3M Filtration Products Europe - NETHERLANDS

·        3M Corp./ Cuno Limited - UNITED KINGDOM

·        3M Corp./ Cuno Pacific Pty. Ltd. - AUSTRALIA

·        3M Corp./ Cuno Filtration Asia Pte. - SINGAPORE

·        3M Corp./ Cuno K.K. - JAPAN

·        3M Corp./ Cuno Latina Ltda. - BRAZIL

·        3M/ Filtration Products Project - MN, USA

·        3M Corp./ Cuno Inc. - CA, USA

·        3M Company - TX, USA

·        3M China Company Ltd. - CHINA

·        Cuno Pacific PTY., Ltd. - HONG KONG

·        3M Company/ Protective Materials Div. - MN, USA

·        3M Renewable Energy Division - MN, USA

·        3M Environmental Operations - MN, USA

·        3M Pumps s.r.l. - ITALY

·        3M Company - MN, USA

·        3M Corp./ Cuno, Inc. - CT, USA

·        3M Corp./ Cuno France S.A. - FRANCE

·        3M Deutschland GmbH - GERMANY

·        3M UK Plc./ Envr.Prod.Group - UNITED KINGDOM

·        3M/ Occupational Health &Safety/Prodts.Dv - MN, USA

·        3M Insulation & Specialty Fabrics - MN, USA

·        3M Laboratories (Europe) GmbH - GERMANY

·        3M Corp./ Cuno Europe - UNITED KINGDOM

·        3M United Kingdom Plc - UNITED KINGDOM

·        3M Company/Electrical Spec.Dv. - TX, USA

·        3M Co./Indl.Tape & Specialties - MN, USA

·        3M Corp./ Cuno GmbH - GERMANY

·        3M/Specialty Chemicals Div. - NJ, USA

·        3M/Specialty Chemicals Div. - MN, USA

·        3M Engineering Fluids & Sys. - MN, USA

3 M FILTRATION PRODUCTS MN, USA

·        Cartridges - CARBON CARTRIDGES

·        Cartridges - CARTRIDGES

·        Cartridges - MEMBRANE CARTRIDGES

·        Cartridges - NONWOVEN CARTRIDGES

·        Liquid Filtration - CROSS FLOW FILTRATION

·        Reverse Osmosis - MF EQUIPMENT

·        Reverse Osmosis - MF MEMBRANES

·        Reverse Osmosis - RO EQUIPMENT

·        Reverse Osmosis - RO MEMBRANES/MODULES

·        Reverse Osmosis - UF EQUIPMENT

·        Reverse Osmosis - UF MEMBRANES

Keep in mind that the website is updated daily.  Also you can register for free monthly Insights in many areas as explained in the Full Display.

Air Filtration Market Will Exceed $7 Billion This Year

The market for filters for indoor air and gas turbine air inlets will exceed $7 billion in 2015.   The biggest driver in Asia is the increased use in residences and commercial buildings to prevent pollutants in the ambient outdoor air from entering the internal environment.  This is one of the conclusions reached in the latest McIlvaine forecasts in N022 Air Filtration and Purification World Market. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Air Filter Revenues ($ Millions)

The big driver in the U.S. is the expansion of the gas turbine market.  Most of the additional U.S. power generation capacity will come from gas turbine plants as identified in:  59EI Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Supplier Program.

The market is expanding substantially due to product upgrades and price per unit increases.  It has been learned that gas turbine maintenance and downtime can be reduced with the use of high efficiency (HEPA) filters as opposed to medium efficiency filters.  These filters cost several times more, but are justified on a life cycle basis.

A unique new guide to these selections has been created in Gas Turbine Air Treatment Global Decisions Positioning System™ (GdPS).

An American Filtration Society conference on April 28^th will include a session conducted by McIlvaine on the filter options http://spring.afssociety.org/

For more information on these services contact: editor@mcilvainecompany.com.

Fabric Filter Market to Expand Rapidly Due to Precipitator Conversion

The market for fabric filter systems will exceed $9 billion this year according to the latest forecast in

N021 World Fabric Filter and Element Market.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

($ Millions)

Over the next ten years, the market will expand at close to double-digit rates due to a number of power plants which will remove the internals of their electrostatic precipitators and replace them with filter bags.  Power plants in the U.S., Italy, Russia, Chile and South Africa have already embarked on this program.  Each of these projects is tracked in 42EI Utility Tracking System.

Tough new regulations requiring outlet particulate limits of less than 5 mg/Nm³ are the driving forces behind these retrofits.  The new regulations in China will create the largest potential for a single country.  Recent Chinese designs have incorporated dry scrubbing and particulate control with fabric filters to reach low SO₂ and particulate levels.

Power plants are being provided with a free system to help them make the needed decisions Power Plant Systems and Components.

The power plant decision makers are aided by the equivalent of a GPS route map to travel back and forth between regulatory, technology and process decision trees.

                              Hot Gas Filtration Global Decisions Positioning System™ (GdPS)

An American Filtration Society conference on April 29^th will include a session conducted by McIlvaine on the hot gas filter options http://spring.afssociety.org/.

For more information on:  World Fabric Filter and Element Market, click on:  http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/110-n021

Renewable Energy Briefs

JinkoSolar to Supply 104 MW of PV Solar Modules for Utah Red Hills Renewable Park Project

JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. announced that it will supply 104 MW dc of PV solar panels for the Utah Red Hills Renewable Park project. 

JinkoSolar will deliver over 340,000 of its utility-scale, high-efficiency polycrystalline 72-cell panels to the Utah Red Hills Renewable Park though a contract with Swinerton Renewable Energy. Scatec Solar, the project's developer and a long-term owner, hired Swinerton Renewable Energy to construct the plant and procure the appropriate technologies.  

The Utah Red Hills Renewable Park, set to be built on a site with excellent solar irradiation, will generate around 210 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per year, which will be fed into the grid under a twenty-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with PacifiCorp's Rocky Mountain Power.

Toshiba to Supply Four Power Generators and Equipment for Hydroelectric Plant in Myanmar

Toshiba Corporation announced that Toshiba Hydro Power (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. (THPC), a Chinese subsidiary that manufactures, sells and maintains hydroelectric equipment, has won a major order to supply four units of 77-megawatt hydro turbine and generator for Myanmar Electric Power Enterprise’s Upper Yeywa hydropower plant.

The contract, for the 308 MW Upper Yeywa Hydropower Plant that Myanmar Electric Power Enterprise will construct northeast of Mandalay, recognizes Toshiba’s high level technical capabilities and more than 120 years of experience in hydroelectric power generation. Deliveries to the project’s EPC contractor, China’s Zhejiang Orient Engineering Co., Ltd., will start in March 2016.

Fuji Electric Wins Geothermal Power Equipment Contracts in Indonesia and Iceland

Fuji Electric announced that they have been selected as the supplier of geothermal power equipment for two major projects in Indonesia and Iceland. The power electronics manufacturer will supply two units of geothermal steam turbines and generators—each with a power generation capacity of 20,000 kW—to PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy, a subsidiary of Indonesia’s oil, gas, renewable and new energy company PT Pertamina. The production is to be completed by the end of year 2016. In the Republic of Iceland, Fuji Electric was awarded a contract for a power generating unit for the Theistareykir Geothermal Power Plant, slated to begin in October 2017.

Fuji Electric has been awarded the Indonesian contract through Sumitomo Corporation of Japan, which formed a consortium with PT Rekayasa Industri (Rekayasa), an engineering company in Indonesia, to win and undertake an EPC contract from PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy for Units 5 and 6 at the Lahendong Geothermal Area. The Units will be constructed in Minahasa district of the North Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. At the Lahendong Geothermal Area, Fuji Electric, in collaboration with Sumitomo Corporation and Rekayasa, has successfully delivered three units of geothermal steam turbines and generators for Units 2, 3 and 4.

Fuji Electric was awarded the Iceland contract by the National Power Company of Iceland (Landsvirkjun) to the consortium consisting of FE and Balcke-Dürr GmbH of Germany and Fuji Electric will design, manufacture and supply the steam turbine and generator, which will be installed and commissioned on site in Iceland and delivered to Landsvirkjun. The total capacity of the project is 45 MW, and the Theistareykir Geothermal Power Plant is located in the Northeastern part of Iceland.

Eco Wave Power Establishes a Subsidiary in Suzhou and Receives an Approval for a First Plant in Zhejiang Province

Eco Wave Power, a world leader in electricity from ocean waves, established a Subsidiary in Changshu under the name of "Suzhou Eco Wave Power Technology". The company was established with investment from a Chinese Governmental fund that believes in EWP's innovative technology and provides funding for EWP's first 100 KW grid connected plant, to be completed by the end of this year.

In a short time frame, Suzhou Eco Wave Power Technology was able to secure consent to construct a pilot plant in Zoushan Island, and is in advanced negotiations regarding additional 50 MW projects in Zhejiang.

EWP's commercial scale power plant will be the first of its kind.

Suzhou Eco Wave Power Technology is part of EWP's corporation, which was established in 2011 and became a significant player in the wave energy industry with a current pipe-line of 99 MW, 50 MW of which are planned to be in China.

Saft Wins Around $10 Million Energy Storage Order for Critical Off-Grid Solar Powered Systems Serving Qatar’s Dukhan Oilfield

Saft a leading designer and manufacturer of high-tech industrial batteries, has been awarded around $10 million contract by Kentz, a member of the SNC-Lavalin  Group and global engineering specialist solutions provider, to supply its Sunica.plus batteries for critical solar powered systems serving Qatar Petroleum’s Dukhan oilfield. Over the next two years, some 40,000 of the nickel-based Sunica.plus batteries will be deployed at around 775 wells across the oilfield, where they will provide energy storage and backup power for wellhead industrial control systems and corrosion protection systems.

For more information on Renewable Energy Projects and Update please visit http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/Renewable_Energy_Projects_Brochure/renewable_energy_projects_brochure.htm

Headlines for Utility E-Alert – March 27, 2015

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1216– March 27, 2015

Table of Contents

COAL – US

·       B&W lands $40 Million Emission Control Contract for Colorado Springs Utilities

COAL – WORLD

·       NTPC plans expansion of Parawada Coal-fired Power Plant

·       Long queue to construct 1320 MW Coal-fired Rampal Power Plant

·       Alstom to build Ultra-Supercritical Lignite-Fired Power Plant in Asia

·       ABB wins Power Plant Automation Order in South Africa

·       Longannet Coal-fired Power Station to close Next Year

·       Beijing, China closing Four Major Coal-fired Power Plants Next Year

·       EthosEnergy to modernize Three Units at Kozienice Power Station

·       Clyde Bergemann receives US$10 Million Order for Dust and SO₂ Reduction Systems for Polish Power Plant

GAS/OIL – US

·       BOND begins Site Work at Footprint Power’s Salem Harbor Energy Center

·       Dominion plans to build Natural Gas-fired Power Plant in Southside, VA

·       FERC approves Transco’s Natural Gas Pipeline expansion to serve Wildcat Point Generation Facility in Maryland

·       Toshiba receives Order for Steam Turbine and Generator for Allen Power Plant

·       El Paso Electric commissions Two Units at Montana Power Station in Texas

GAS/OIL – WORLD

·       ACWA, Mitsui, and DIDIC win 445 MW Oman Gas-fired Power Project

BUSINESS

·       Ovivo awarded Contract for Demineralization System for European Petrochemical Plant

·       A Multitude of Hot Gas Filter Decisions Needed due to Regulatory and Technology Developments

·       Gas Turbine Inlet Filter Decisions are Critical and Complex

·       Six Percent Expansion of the Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Market this Year

·       Continuous Analyses of Energy and Environmental Subjects Now Available

HOT TOPIC HOUR

·       Hot Topic Hour March 26 Speakers endorsed Combination NO_x Control Strategies

·       Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

For more information on the Utility Tracking System, click on:  http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/2-uncategorised/89-42ei

“Direct Sorbent Injection (DSI)” on April 9^th “Hot Topic Hour”

This session will provide the latest insights relative to direct sorbent injection.

There will be a review of the data already displayed in: Dry Scrubbing - Continuous Analyses.  New insights will be provided by:

Presenters

Sterling M. Gray, P.E., Business Development Manager, Process Technologies AECOM

Shuman Moore, CEO, ClearChem 

Martin Dillon, P.E., Flue Gas Treatment Specialist, Lhoist North America  

Curt Biehn, Manager, Marketing and Technical Services, Mississippi Lime Company, Guisu Liu, Ph.D., Mobotec LLC 

Many power plants in the U.S. have opted for dry sorbent injection to meet MATS. The DSI can impact the emission of the following pollutants:

·       HCl

·       SO₃

·       SO₂

·       Mercury

·       Selenium

·       Particulate

There are various options including:

·       Sorbent type (lime, limestone, trona, sodium bi carbonate, other)

·       Sorbent particle size and surface area

·       Stochiometric ratios of sorbent

·       Injection location (furnace, before air heater, before particulate collector, after particulate collector in dedicated TOXECON, before SDA (Wygen)

·       Injection method

·       Capture device (precipitator, fabric filter, wet scrubber, catalytic filter

There are issues which vary with the above options.

·       Impact on total particulate removal

·       Acid gas removal efficiency

·       Salability of flyash

Plant specific issues include:

·       Fuel sulphur and chlorine content

·       Space availability

·       Landfill costs

·       Estimated remaining plant life

·       Present air pollution control equipment

The DSI development has been extensive. Many pilot tests and the first commercial installations to meet MATS have been completed. What are the results?

The session on April 9 will build on the many presentations already appearing in the free website:

Dry Scrubbing - Continuous Analyses

Boosting SDA efficiency with DSI at Wygen 3

Clear Chem plus Durr Ceramic Filter and Heat Exchanger are the One Stop Shopping Option

Comparison of components and systems in dry scrubbing

DSI for MATS and CSAPR by Jim Dickerman, Lhoist / Chemical Lime - Hot Topic Hour January 29, 2015

Slides from NatronX which include Trona vs. SBC at Low Temperature by Melissa Patasnick and Joshua Allen, NatronX Technologies - Hot Topic Hour - August 14, 2014.

Direct Sorbent Injection Webinar - Hot Topic Hour July 10, 2014

SOLVAir Solutions Focus on DSI by Michael Atwell, Solvay Chemicals, Inc. - Hot Topic Hour July 10, 2014

UCC Dry Sorbent Injection, Multi-Pollutant Removal with DSI by Jon Norman, United Conveyor - Hot Topic Hour September 27, 2013

Hydrated Lime for HCl Mitigation by Pat Mongoven, Mississippi Lime - Hot Topic Hour July 18, 2013

Understanding Hydrated Lime Properties in Acid Gas Control by Mike Tate, Graymont - Hot Topic Hour June 21, 2012.

We will also be evaluating the discussions on the exhibit floor at EUEC plus the papers such as:

E5.1 THE BENEFITS OF HIGH REACTIVITY HYDRATED LIME IN A CIRCULATING DRY SCRUBBER Curt Biehn, Manager - Marketing & Technical Services, Mississippi Lime Company; Mark DeGenova

E5.2 SUCCESSFUL OPERATION OF FLUE GAS HUMIDIFICATION/COOLING USING SPRAY NOZZLES UPSTREAM OF DRY SORBENT INJECTION (DSI) Robert Van Durme, P.E., Key Account Manager, Lechler Inc.; Ashwin Patni, Lechler Inc.; Leon Lenertz, P.E., Xcel Energy

E5.3 BENEFICIATION OF HIGH SODIUM FLY ASH Michael Atwell, Market Development Manager, Solvay Chemicals

E5.4 SULFUR DIOXIDE MITIGATION USING HYDRATED LIME DSI & HUMIDIFICATION Carl Laird, Sr.Technical Specialist - FGT & Glass Markets, Carmeuse Lime and Stone

E5.5 APPLICATION & BENEFITS OF SO3 REMOVAL UPSTREAM OF THE LJUNGSTROM® AIR PREHEATER Gus Shearer, Product Director, ARVOS Inc. LJUNGSTROM Division; Sterling M. Gray, PE, AECOM Corporation

E5.6 DRY SORBENT INJECTION HISTORY & FUTURE APPLICATION Keith Day, Business Development Manager, Nol-Tec Systems

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McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

On Thursdays at 10:00 a.m. Central time, McIlvaine hosts a 90 minute web meeting on important energy and pollution control subjects.  These Webinars are free of charge to owner/operators of the plants. They are also free to McIlvaine Subscribers of Power Plant Air Quality Decisions and Utility Tracking System.  The cost for others is $300.00 per webinar.

See below for information on upcoming Hot Topic Hours.  We welcome your input relative to suggested additions

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