Here are the Headlines for the July 22, 2011 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1034 – July 22, 2011
Table of Contents
COAL – US
PGE Reaches Emissions Deal
EERC Mercury Control Technology Installed at Power Plant
Ruling Held Up on Power Plant Near Grand Canyon
D.E. Karn (MI) Coal-fired Power Plant to Receive Emissions Control Upgrades
COAL – WORLD
SPX to Provide Cooling Tower for 2x300 MW Datang Wu’an Power Plant in China
Imported Coal Issues Postpone Part of Ratnagiri Plant Expansion
GAS / OIL – US
FPL to Demolish Port Everglades, FL Power Plant
PSEG Power Announces Closing on Sale of Odessa Gas-fired Facility
GAS / OIL – WORLD
Oman Signs 2,000 MW Power Plant Deal
Gas-fired Power Plant Site Location Ongoing
CO2
Texas Clean Energy Project Takes Step Forward with CO2 Sales Agreement
ZAK Withdraws from Polish Zero-Emission Venture, Putting Future of Project in
Jeopardy
British Institute to Invest £23.5 Million in CCS Pilot Plant
New Porous Material Could Reduce Cost of Carbon Capture
BIOMASS
Final Air Permit Granted to Wolverine Power for 2x300 MW Coal / Biomass Plant
New Zealand Biomass Power Plant Gets Green Light
NUCLEAR
Vermont Yankee Loses Bid to Remain Open as Lawsuit Proceeds
Duke Energy Seeks Five to Ten Percent Share of Proposed $10 Billion Nuclear
Power Plant
Nuclear Power Plant Delayed Until 2016, EDF Says
BUSINESS
Ipsa Finds Buyers for Four Gas Turbines
Fuel Tech Awarded $6.9 Million in Air Pollution Control Orders
Power Plant Materials Development is the Key to Low Cost Clean Electricity
HOT TOPIC HOUR
“Cost of Retrofit Air Pollution Control vs. New Coal-fired Boilers” is Hot
Topic on Thursday, July 28, 2011
Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
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$6.1 Billion Precipitator Market This Year
Despite some loss of market share to fabric filters, the world electrostatic
precipitator industry will enjoy sales of over $6 billion this year. This is the
conclusion in the continually updated online, Electrostatic Precipitator: World
Markets, published by the McIlvaine Company.
World Precipitator Market ($ Millions-System Type)
Subject 2011
Dry 5,425.4
Wet 685.1
Total 6,110.5
The future opportunities in electrostatic precipitation are greater in the
service and upgrade segment than in equipment for greenfield plants.
Electrostatic precipitators have traditionally been the primary particulate
removal device for coal-fired power plants, cement kilns, and certain furnace
applications. However, other technologies have been developed and are making
inroads.
The market for electrostatic precipitators is growing despite the fact that
fabric filters are taking an ever increasing market share. Fortunately, the
total market is growing fast enough to compensate for the share losses, but this
is primarily due to upgrades to the installed base. There is a distinction
between sales of new equipment and sales of parts and services. Whereas the
sales of new precipitators are lower than the sales of fabric filters, the sales
of parts and services are larger.
Precipitator parts and service is potentially a $4.5 billion/yr business. $1.5
billion is parts and $3 billion is operation and maintenance. However, most of
this O&M is furnished directly by the owner, reducing the outside service
contracting presently to just $300 million/yr.
Some big companies have entered the field. Siemens purchased Wheelabrator who
has been a supplier of complete precipitator systems for many decades. GE sold
its precipitator upgrade and repair business to Babcock &Wilcox.
Two factors, the emergence of the Chinese suppliers and the entry into the
market of the largest international companies, have transformed the market. The
world leaders of 20 years ago (Research Cottrell and Western Precipitation) are
no longer independent U.S. companies.
The market for wet precipitators is smaller but has much higher growth potential
than for dry precipitators. Wet precipitators were first used to capture
sulfuric acid mist from metal mining and smelting operations. The installation
of catalytic NOx control systems on power plants has resulted in the increase of
SO3. As a result, many power plants in the U.S. are faced with SO3 reduction
requirements.
Wet precipitators will achieve 90 percent reduction in SO3, actually in the
resultant H2SO4 mist. They are expensive at $50/kW -$ 100/kW, but they are
effective. As a result, a number of new power plants under construction will
utilize wet precipitators following the scrubber.
East Asia will be the biggest market followed by West Asia.
Regional Precipitator Markets ($ Millions)
World Region 2011
East Asia $2,776.0
West Asia $1,518.7
NAFTA $756.3
Western Europe $474.8
South & Central America $187.5
Eastern Europe $142.4
Africa $120.0
CIS $90.1
Middle East $44.6
Total $6,110.4
For more information on Electrostatic Precipitator: World Markets, click on:
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/air.html#n018.
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Decisive Classification is the Key to Economic Growth
The U.S. economy is growing too slowly. It is not a lack of opportunity; it is
the failure to communicate that opportunity. How can that be when the amount of
available information is doubling every year or two? The problem is that our
ability to assimilate information is static. We cannot double the time to make
decisions. We have to find a way to plow through the mountain of information
more effectively.
The solution is “Decisive Classification.” It not only provides a quicker route
to the relevant information but eliminates the need for part of the
investigative sequence. This new tool is available from the McIlvaine Company
free of charge. It is based on four decades of research on better ways to
convert information to knowledge and knowledge to more effective decisions. The
system can be used to organize corporate websites and site maps and provide
indices for publishers and conference organizers.
All decision making is a series of classifications in which one alternative is
determined to be better than the others. Decisive Classification provides the
best way to determine the sequence and select the alternatives. Here are the
ways it contributes:
• Provides the best sequence
The best sequence may not be the conventional one. Here is an example. An
engineer must decide on a reagent, a scrubber and a pump for a power plant
desulfurization system. Normally the pump is an afterthought and should be last
in the sequence. But it turns out that of the thousands of pump companies only a
handful of companies make pumps big enough if certain reagent and scrubber type
are chosen. So Decisive Classification benefits from the experience of others to
alert the specifier to a better sequence. It also provides the listing of the
few companies in the world who can address the one alternative.
• Quickly and accurately identifies the application
The U.S. NAICS code is used to identify the industry. A parent child software
program along with diagrams provide a precise description of the application.
• Provide the hierarchy of product alternatives
There are many scrubber suppliers with many different designs but there are
really only four categories which should be considered for power plant
desulfurization.
• Provide standardization of terminology in multiple languages
Dosing and metering are both used to describe the same function. Standardizing
on one or the other is highly desirable for English speakers. It is even more
important for those for whom English is not their primary language.
• Accurate numerical identification of corporations
Each financial entity is assigned a corporate number which links to the company
name in Latin and Mandarin characters.
• Most meaningful geographic segmentation
For most business decisions, the segmentation of the world into 70 countries and
10 subregions to cover the 150 smaller countries results in 80 meaningful
entities which can be aggregated into regions and continental entities.
McIlvaine is working with industry associations to standardize on application
classifications. It is working with product oriented associations to standardize
on product classifications. Contributions and suggestions are encouraged. You
can access the “Decisive Classification” at: Global Knowledge Orchard
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/Decision_Tree/subscriber/Tree/Default.htm.
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