Combustion Optimization and Dry FGD are the September Hot Topic Subjects
The Dry Scrubber Users Association Annual Conference and Exhibit is scheduled
for September 12 to 15. The following week on Sept 22, we will conduct a Hot
Topic Hour to summarize and analyze the information discussed at the conference.
Jim Downey has a great assembly of panelists slated. This session will be free
to the Dry Scrubber Conference attendees and association members.
Otherwise, it is our standard arrangement which is free for Tracking System and
Air Quality Decisions subscribers and $125 for non qualifiers.
On September 21 at 10:00 a.m. we will conduct a free session open to anyone who
registers on combustion optimization. The speaker will be:
Dave Earley - AMC Power
Dave will be covering combustion optimization systems that utilize air and coal
flow measurement technologies in a McIlvaine webinar in the near future. Dave
will review success stories where NOx, CO and LOI were reduced and
boiler efficiency was improved.
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Here are the Headlines for the August 19, 2011 – Utility E Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1038– August 19, 2011
Table of Contents
COAL-GEN
COAL – US
COAL – WORLD
GAS / OIL – WORLD
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Bangladesh/Bahrain JV to build 750 MW Kodda Combined Cycle Power Plant
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Uncertainty over Fate of 1,500 MW Bawana Gas Turbine Power Plant
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Arabian Bemco says its Bid was lowest for 1,300 MW Riyadh Expansion
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PGE and Police (Chemical Producer) could build 600 MW Cogeneration Plant
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Bangladesh has loan for Gas-fired power plant at Ashuganj
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Iraq has three Bids to install Siemens Gas Turbines in Taji
BIOMASS
NUCLEAR
BUSINESS
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EPA affirms NAAQS for Carbon Monoxide
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Daewoo to build 2000 MW Sur in Oman
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Sahara India Power Corp. and Korea East-West Power Co enter Joint Agreement to
Bid for UMPP Projects in India
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2011 Dry Scrubber Users Conference - Scrubber Technology Decision: CDS vs. SDA
HOT TOPIC HOUR
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AUGUST 2011
Technology to Drive the Fluid Treatment and Flow Market
There are many new products and concepts which will influence the markets for
fluid treatment and flow control technology. Development is not taking
place as fast as it is in semiconductors or pharmaceuticals. Nevertheless, the
market leaders of the future will be those with improved technology and lower
life cycle costs and not those with the lowest initial price.
These new developments are tracked continually in various McIlvaine publications
(www.mcilvainecompany.com). Here are some of them:
Materials
Industeel has a large research facility in France and is continually striving to
improve the materials which are used in pumps, scrubbers, clarifiers, stacks and
other equipment. Recently, they have developed a whole new family of duplex
stainless steels.
Lhoist has developed a high surface area calcium sorbent for capture of air
pollutants in flue gas.
Kemira has introduced bromine compounds for mercury oxidation and is also
building a plant in the U.S. to use flue gas desulfurization gypsum to produce a
high quality paper coating.
Hitachi has a new system to make hydrochloric acid from power plant stack gases.
Instrumentation
Two companies have developed multi metals analyzers which can continuously
measure each of the toxic metals in flue gas.
In Situ has an improved dissolved oxygen monitor which eliminates the need for
chemicals and provides accuracy at low ppm measurements in ultrapure water.
A number of companies such as Rockwell, Neuco, Siemens and Emerson have
developed optimization systems for air and water pollution control.
Equipment
Dow has introduced a 16 inch diameter reverse osmosis membrane which can reduce
energy consumption significantly.
Siemens just announced a combination of electrodialysis and electrodeionization
for desalination of seawater at lower energy cost than either reverse osmosis or
thermal processes.
Nalco and Argonne have partnered in development of electrodeionization to more
economically manufacture biofuels.
W. L. Gore has a new stack gas membrane which will remove mercury.
A number of pump and valve manufacturers are making their products smarter. This
means higher reliability, lower maintenance and less energy consumption.
Pump manufacturers are improving designs to recover energy from reverse osmosis
processes and make desalination economical.
Duechting, Weir and KSB have developed ceramic pumps to handle flue gas
limestone slurries with flows of more than 50,000 gpm. The ceramic material has
proven able to handle the abrasion and corrosion encountered in the application.
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Marine Power Moving Forward
Although still in the development stage there is a lot of work being done to
harness the energy of marine power. This is just one of the topics covered in
McIlvaine Renewable Energy Update and Projects. Excerpts from
items on the subject follow.
During 2010, the Crown Estate in the UK announced that it had awarded
development rights to a number of companies for eleven wave and tidal stream
energy projects in the Pentland Firth and Orkney waters, with a total potential
capacity of 1,600 MW. This followed a leasing round that the Crown Estate
ran between 2008 and 2010, which received considerable interest from industry.
The Pentland Firth and Orkney waters area is the first to be made available for
commercial scale development of wave and tidal energy in Scotland and indeed the
whole of the UK. The projects are believed to represent the largest
planned development of wave and tidal stream energy worldwide.
Work to develop the projects has now been underway in earnest for over a year.
The initial focus is on making preparations for statutory consents applications.
Initial levels of device deployment will be relatively low as technologies,
installation methods and operations techniques are demonstrated. If this
is successful, the level of activity and the associated expenditure on project
development may be expected to increase in the second half of the decade.
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Wave energy company Aquamarine Power took the first step towards installation of
its second full-scale Oyster wave energy converter (15 June) with the arrival of
the “Excalibur” jack-up barge in Orkney.
The vessel is now stationed at the European Marine Energy Centre’s (EMEC) Billia
Croo site, where the Oyster will be installed later this summer. The
jack-up barge will now begin drilling piles into the seabed to provide the
foundation for the second generation device.
The next phase of installation will see Oyster being fixed to the seabed piles
around 500 metres from shore. This will be followed by a commissioning
process which will see the device connected to an onshore hydro-electric
generator via subsea pipelines.
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The China Energy Conservation Environment Protection Group (CECEP), China’s
leading renewable energy company, and Verdant Power, Inc., the leading U.S.
tidal power developer, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop
tidal energy power projects in China. The MOU is the first of its kind
between China and the U.S. involving marine and hydrokinetic power projects.
The MOU establishes tidal and river power devices as a new stream of U.S.
exports to international markets. It will also spur economic development
and job growth in the U.S. and build momentum for a domestic tidal energy
market.
Verdant Power is currently developing sustainable tidal power projects in the
U.S. and Canada. In New York City’s East River, the Roosevelt Island Tidal
Energy (RITE) Project will be the first grid-connected project that will provide
New York City and the metropolitan area with up to 500 megawatts of
pollution-free electricity from a field of underwater MHK turbines.
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Alstom has taken a 40 percent equity share in Scottish renewable energy company
AWS Ocean Energy, representing Alstom’s entry to the wave energy market.
Alstom will be a shareholder alongside Shell Technology Ventures Fund 1 and
Scottish Investment Bank, who continue their support of AWS.
The move complements the existing activities of Alstom’s Ocean Energy business
in Nantes, France, where the company is developing its 1 MW commercial-scale
tidal turbine prototype, the Beluga 9.
Created in 2004, AWS Ocean Energy is currently focusing on the development and
delivery of its AWS-III wave energy converter, a floating device with a rated
power output of 2.5MW.
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Nitto
Denko/Hydranautics and Statkraft have entered into an agreement for the
development and supply of membranes for osmotic power. The agreement
between the two companies will accelerate the development of the new renewable
energy technology.
Nitto Denko/Hydranautics is a global leader in membrane manufacturing and
Statkraft is a European leader in renewable energy.
Statkraft has developed osmotic power for a decade and opened the world’s first
prototype facility for osmotic power in 2009. Membrane is a key component
in osmotic power generation and the agreement between the two companies will
accelerate the development of the new renewable energy technology. Under
the agreement, Nitto Denko/Hydranautics will develop membranes specifically
designed for use in large scale osmotic power plants. The development of
more efficient membranes will contribute to making the technology competitive
with other new, renewable energy sources and will bring osmotic power further
towards future commercialization.
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please visit
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