Hot Topic Hour January 19 is Making Coal Plants Green
On January 19 at 10:00 a.m. central time, McIlvaine editors will initiate
discussions of some novel ways to make coal plants green as well as review some
of the technologies which are better known. The newest concept is
co-location of municipal wastewater treatment power plants and coal power
plants. Why send the sludge to the power plant by truck and send the treated
wastewater by pipe. It makes more sense to co-locate the two and use the
low pressure steam from the power plant to improve the sewage treatment
operations. This can be combined with liquid manure delivered in the same piping
from surrounding farms.
Here are some of the other topics that can be discussed:
This session will be collaborative. We encourage discussion and debate.
To register for the "Hot Topic Hour" on Thursday, January 19, 2011 at 10:00
a.m. (central time), click on:
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/hot_topic_hour_registration.htm.
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EUEC will be a Great Place to Network
EUEC 2012: The 15th Annual Energy & Environment Conference & Expo will host
about 2,000 delegates on January 30th – February 1st, 2012 at the
Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona. An outstanding list of over 600
speakers will make expert presentations in 13 tracks.
Exhibiting companies include equipment suppliers and the following consulting
and EPC companies:
AECOM, Inc.
AMEC Earth & Environmental
Burns & McDonnell
CH2M HILL
Civil & Environmental Consultants
Environmental Consulting & Technology
Environmental Resources Management (ERM)
Golder Associates, Inc.
Kiewit
Shaw Group, Inc.
Trinity Consultants, Inc.
The large number of consulting and EPC companies insure that there will be a
wealth of accumulated knowledge for you to access. McIlvaine will be an
exhibitor and will look forward to your visit.
A number of chemical companies will also be attending. Natronx will be a
first time exhibitor for the reason that it is a new company.
Church & Dwight Co. Inc., FMC Corp. and TATA Chemicals have joined forces to
produce and sell sodium-based chemicals.
Natronx will spend $60 million to build a factory that can produce 450,000 tons
of chemicals classified as "sorbents" by the fourth quarter of 2012. The
founding partners will invest equal amounts in the project.
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Here are the Headlines for the January 6, 2012 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1056 – January 6, 2012
Table of Contents
COAL
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Court Stays CSAPR
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Fuel Tech Awarded Multiple Orders Totaling $10.5 Million
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Sunbury (PA) to Convert from Coal to Gas
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B&W Wins Contract to Upgrade Coal-fired Power Plant
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Longview Coal-fired Power Plant Completed in West Virginia
COAL – WORLD
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2,000 MW Power Plant Project Planned in Vietnam
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China to Build Eight GW Coal-fired Power Plant in Beihai
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Tata Power Alters Technology for 2,000 MW Power Plant in Naraj
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135 MW Coal-fired Power Plant for Batangas, Philippines
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Black & Veatch Wins Contract for Manjung Unit 4 Power Project in Malaysia
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Foster Wheeler to Supply CFB Steam Generators to Project in Vietnam
GAS / OIL – WORLD
CO2
BIOMASS
NUCLEAR
BUSINESS
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Duke Energy to Purchase Majority of Vermillion Power Plant
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Doosan Power Systems Acquires Majority Stake in AE&E Lentjes
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AES Coal-fired Power Plants in New York State File for Bankruptcy
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SPX Enters Joint Venture in China
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Nuclear Safety Associates Acquires Safety Technologies Firm
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Kemira Exits Gypsum Pigment Business
HOT TOPIC HOUR
For more information on the Utility Environmental
Upgrade Tracking System, click on:
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/energy.html#42ei.
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New Plant Construction Confirms Optimism about the Future of Solar Energy
McIlvaine’s Renewable Energy Projects and Update continues to
report on new plants under construction around the world to supply the
components needed for solar energy production.
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GE announced plans to build its new solar panel factory in Aurora, CO. When
completed, the advanced manufacturing facility will create 355 jobs in Colorado
and will be larger than any existing solar panel factory in the country. GE
anticipates the new factory will start up earlier than expected with the first
panels coming off the line in 2012 with commercial availability in 2013.
GE will locate the factory in an existing building in Aurora, just east of
Denver. This location, which also is in proximity to GE’s existing solar center
of excellence, enables an accelerated start-up schedule with production
equipment installation beginning in January 2012. At capacity, the new factory
will produce enough panels per year to power 80,000 homes and will be larger
than 11 football fields. When complete, the new solar factory will highlight a
$600 million investment in GE’s solar business.
Colorado already is home to GE Energy’s thin film solar pilot line, where joint
technology advancements from GE’s Global Research Center and PrimeStar Solar
have been validated and tested. GE completed the acquisition of PrimeStar
earlier this year.
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TSMC Solar Ltd. has completed equipment move-in in preparation for commercial
production ramp at its new CIGS fab in Taichung, Taiwan.
The new highly automated manufacturing facility, dubbed the S-Fab, is a
state-of-the-art six story 700,000 square foot LEED certified facility. Initial
Phase 1 investment totaled U.S. $258 million with manufacturing capacity of 100
MW per year in 2012, ramping to 300 MW at Phase 1 completion. TSMC Solar’s
planned addition of a 300 MW Phase II, when coupled with productivity
improvements, will take total facility capacity to 1 gigawatt by 2015.
First panels from the production line are headed for UL and IEC certification
and testing with first commercial products expected to be shipped the first
quarter of 2012. California Energy Commission listing is slated for mid first
quarter 2012.
Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing capital equipment and
turnkey, manufacturing lines to produce PV modules, and engineering, procurement
and construction integration services for solar systems, announced it has been
selected by Sonali Energees Pvt. Ltd. (Sonali Solar) of Gujarat, India to
provide a 25 MW PV module turnkey assembly line. This assembly line includes a
state-of-the-art Spi-EL™ Electroluminescence Tester and also has the
ability to produce glass to glass modules for building-integrated photovoltaics
applications.
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Sunpreme, a global manufacturer of low-cost, highly scalable SmartSilicon®
solar cells, announced that it closed over $50 million in financing led by the
International Finance Corporation, the private sector investment arm of the
World Bank Group, joining existing investors Silicon-Valley-based Capricorn
Investment Group and Beijing-based China Environment Fund III, L.P. managed by
Tsing Capital. The capital infusion is being used to construct a
state-of-the-art facility in Jiaxing, China, allowing Sunpreme to continue to
expand production of its SmartSilicon® solar cells by year end.
Sunpreme’s SmartSilicon® is a solar cell technology that delivers
high-efficiency solar photovoltaic panels at lower costs. Using Sunpreme’s
patented technology on largely industry standard production equipment, the
company’s cost-effective manufacturing process provides utility-scale and
distributed power generation customers with a reliable, high-performance and
affordable solar solution.
The company’s low energy-intensity and low environmental impact process does not
utilize toxic or rare materials, and thus avoids the unwelcome paradox of
exporting clean technology globally while polluting the environment locally.
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LDK Solar Co., Ltd., a leading vertically integrated manufacturer of
photovoltaic products, announced that the company successfully achieved
mechanical completion of its third 5,000 MT polysilicon train at its Mahong,
China, polysilicon plant.
There are three 5,000 MT trains in the 15,000 MT Mahong polysilicon plant.
Mechanical completion of this third train demonstrates that LDK Solar has
successfully completed the plant’s originally designed total polyslicon capacity
of 15,000 MT per annum. With the extensive experience obtained from ramping up
the previous two trains, the company expects the third train will quickly ramp
to reach full capacity production toward the end of 2011. The mechanical
completion of the third train also enhances LDK Solar’s leadership in
manufacturing costs, lowers the key material supply risk and empowers LDK Solar
as a leading player in the PV industry.
LDK Solar has reached a total polysilicon production capacity of 17,000 MT per
annum, combining both Mahong and Xiacun polysilicon plants. With the completion
of its currently ongoing debottlenecking and hydrochlorination projects in both
the Mahong and Xiacun plants, as well as the line B project in Xiacun plant, the
company expects to reach a total polysilicon production capacity of 25,000 MT
per annum in mid-2012.
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
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