Mercury Control and Removal Status and Cost is Hot Topic Hour on August 2,
2012
Unless the final versions of the Utility MACT or MATS and the Industrial Boiler
MACT are dramatically and unexpectedly revised, the limits for mercury emissions
from coal- and oil-fired boilers will be very low. So low that it is
questionable whether or not the required reductions can be achieved in all cases
given the constraints imposed by reducing other pollutants simultaneously. Many
believe that it may also be very difficult to measure mercury reliably and
accurately determine and prove what removal efficiency is actually being
achieved.
Because of the considerable interest in this subject, we held Hot Topic Hours in
March and April where ten speakers discussed new ways to control mercury and to
measure it. However, we could not accommodate all of the people desiring to
participate, so we are holding a third session this year.
The following speakers will help us understand the current situation relative to
the control of mercury from coal-fired power plants. We would like speakers to
address the impact of MATS on power plant operators; the key issues to be
considered when developing a strategy to achieve compliance with MATS; the
current status of and new developments relative to the injection of activated
carbon and other materials for mercury removal; the multi-emission control
technologies available and under development with their applicability,
capabilities and limitations and present other alternatives available to achieve
compliance with the expected regulations.
Dr. Behrooz Ghorishi, R&D Director for Albemarle’s Environmental Division, will
present “Innovative One-Step Production of Albemarle’s Concrete-FriendlyTM
Activated Carbon.” The flyash generated from coal combustion is virtually
identical in its composition to volcanic ash and is ideal for concrete use. The
economic benefits of using flyash to replace a fraction of the cement in
concrete include increased revenue from the sale of the ash and reduced costs
for flyash disposal. The main concern for power plants that sell their flyash
for cement replacement is that those powdered activated carbons (PAC)-based
sorbents used for mercury control make the flyash incompatible with concrete.
PAC adsorbs the air-entraining admixtures (AEAs) that are added to the concrete
slurry. These surfactants enable incorporation of the precise amount of air
bubbles needed to create the air voids required for concrete workability and
freeze-thaw capabilities. Albemarle, using an innovative one-step process,
produced and commercialized a Concrete-FriendlyTM mercury sorbent, C-PACTM,
which is currently used in several power plants across the U.S. This
presentation will provide technical information on the production and use of
C-PAC.
Kyle Neidig, Manager of SCR Catalyst Products at Hitachi Power Systems America,
will discuss the mercury co-benefits of Hitachi’s catalyst design. As MATS
imposes new stringent mercury emissions limits for coal-fired generators,
utilities must adapt by either adding additional AQCS equipment or by modifying
the operation of their generating units to improve the performance of their
existing AQCS equipment in order to achieve Mercury Co-Benefits and MATS
compliance. Many utilities will be asking their SCR and catalyst to do more than
ever before to help meet these new challenges. Hitachi continues to develop new
catalyst that not only enhances the performance of the SCR, but also helps to
minimize the cost impact of compliance with the new mercury emissions limits. In
addition to NOx control, the SCR is now being used as a mercury co-benefit
control device thanks to advancements in the mercury oxidation capability of
Hitachi’s catalyst design. These catalyst improvements present significant cost
savings for compliance by either reducing or eliminating the need for new air
pollution controls on utility coal-fired generating units.
Jonas Klingspor, Vice-President of Business Development at URS, will discuss the
Gore/URS mercury control technology. This technology utilizes a fixed bed
technology installed after the mist eliminator and has some interesting
characteristics: It is not sensitive to mercury speciation, not sensitive to the
concentration of mercury, does not rely on injection of activated carbon or
bromides, does not contaminate flyash, has a lifetime of between three to nine
years between replacement, has a very low pressure drop, and achieves 90 percent
plus mercury removal and 60 percent SO2 removal.
To register for the “Hot Topic Hour” on August 2, 2012 at 10: a.m. Central Time,
click here:
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/hot_topic_hour_registration.htm.
McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration
On Thursday at 10:00 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 Environmental
Upgrade Tracking System. The cost is $125.00 for non-subscribers. Market
Intelligence webinars are free to McIlvaine market report.
DATE Non-Subscribers Cost SUBJECT Webinar Type
August 2, 2012 $125.00 Mercury Control and Removal Status and Cost Power
August 9, 2012 $125.00 Materials for Corrosion Prevention in Power Plant and
Boiler APC Systems Power
August 16, 2012 $125.00 Report from Coal-gen (highlights of speeches and
exhibitions) Power
August 23, 2012 $125.00 Report from Mega Symposium (highlights of speeches and
exhibitions at this important air pollution conference) Power
August 30, 2012 $125.00 Pumps for Power Plants, Boilers and Water Treatment
Facilities Combined Cycle Plants Power
September 6, 2012 $125.00 Production of Fertilizer and Sulfuric Acid at
Coal-fired Power Plants Power
September 13, 2012 $125.00 Instruments and Technology for On-line Boiler
Monitoring Power
September 27, 2012 $125.00 Coal-fired Boiler Optimization Power
October 11, 2012 $125.00 Air Preheaters & Heat Exchangers Power
October 18, 2012 $400.00 Instrumentation for air, gas, water, liquids
(forecasts, market shares, growth segments) Market Intelligence
October 25, 2012 $125.00 Cooling Towers and Cooling Water Issues Power
November 1, 2012 $125.00 FGD Scrubber Components Power
November 8, 2012 $125.00 Dampers and Expansion Joints for Coal-fired and Gas
Turbine Power Plants Power
November 15, 2012 $125.00 Catalyst Selection for NOx and Other Gases Power
November 29, 2012 $125.00 Boiler Feed and Cooling Water Treatment Power
December 6, 2012 $125.00 Co-firing Sewage Sludge, Biomass and Municipal Waste
Power
December 13, 2012 $125.00 Update on Oxy-fuel Combustion Power
January 10, 2013 $125.00 Material Handling in Coal-fired Power Plants Power
January 17, 2013 $125.00 Gypsum Dewatering Power
January 24, 2013 $400.00 Filter media (forecasts and market drivers for media
used in air, gas, liquid, fluid applications, both mobile and stationary) Market
Intelligence
January 31, 2013 $125.00 Valves for Power Plants, Boilers and Water Treatment
Facilities Power
FGD Revenues to Exceed $7.6 Billion Next Year
Sales of flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems will exceed $7.6 billion in
2013. This is the latest forecast in FGD World Markets published by the
McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
The forecast includes both wet and dry scrubbing processes which remove sulfur
dioxide from power plant exhaust stacks. It does not include revenues for
scrubbers used in conjunction with industrial boilers using coal combustors to
generate steam for process uses. It also excludes scrubbers used to remove
sulfur dioxide from the stacks of vessels burning bunker and other high sulfur
fuels. (Forecasts for these industrial markets are included in a separate
report.)
FGD Revenues ($ Millions)
World Region 2013
Africa 451
CIS 0
East Asia 4,846
Eastern Europe 343
Middle East 109
NAFTA 1,122
South & Central America 0
West Asia 108
Western Europe 626
Total 7,605
Over 60 percent of the market next year will be in East Asia. The majority of
the sales in this region will be to power plants in China. Most of the Chinese
sales will be for new power plants, but there will also be some retrofits to old
power plants without FGD. China has more scrubbers than any other country but
also more power plants without scrubbers than any other country.
There is competition among technologies. Wet scrubbers using limestone and
making wall-board quality gypsum as an end product will be the most popular. Dry
and semi dry systems using lime will carve out a significant but minor share. In
the U.S., dry injection system revenues will be substantial. These lower capital
cost systems will be purchased for older power plants where the higher operating
cost is preferable. Many of these power plants may be retired in the next ten
years, so the expense over the remaining lifetime will be much less than if the
expected life were twenty-five years.
Sulfur, sulfuric acid, ammonium sulfate and other products can be produced with
SO2 scrubbers. There will be relatively small numbers of these systems
purchased. The opportunities will be limited to sites where there is a nearby
consumer of the product.
For more information on: FGD World Markets, click on:
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/air.html#N027
Here are the Headlines for the July 20, 2012 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1084– July 20, 2012
Table of Contents
COAL – US
• SCR Slated for Stanton 1
• DTE Energy to retire Harbor Beach
COAL – WORLD
• Global Business Power Considering 82 MW Adition at Iloilo
• Zimbabwe and China Railway could build 1000 MW Power Plant
• Uttar Pradesh (India) Government wants to Revive 1980 MW Karchana Power
Project
• Coal-fired Power Plants in Chile will be upgraded by Fuel Tech
• Daelim to build 200 MW Maasim Power Project in the Philippines
• Nigeria Proceeding with Multiple Coal-fired Power Projects
• 1320 MW Power Project in Jammu, India
• Atikokan to be converted to Biomass-firing (Ontario, Canada)
• Slovenia approves Sostanj Upgrade work by Alstom
• Only Four FGD Plants under Construction in India
GAS / OIL – US
• Siemens/Bechtel to build 758 MW Panda Temple Power Project
GAS / OIL – WORLD
• Alstom to Supply HRSG for 2,175 MW Riyadh PP12 in Saudi Arabia
• Yokogawa Electric has Contract for Control System for 300 MW Kimanis Power
Project in Malaysia
• Mitsui and Kepco to convert Takoradi T2 to Combined Cycle
• New 300 MW Power Plant at Lambton in Ontario, Canada
• Vattenfall gets New German Gas-fired CHP Plant Approved
• IDB to provide $380 Million Loan for Two Power Plants in Bangladesh
• Wärtsilä to supply 384 MW Gas-fired Power Plant to Azerbaijan
CO2
• UK’s Don Valley CCS Proposal tops List of Projects in Line for €1.5 Billion in
European Funding
• UK’s First Offshore Carbon Storage License Secured by SSE for Peterhead CCS
Project
• Alberta Awards $46 Million for Six Carbon Reduction Projects
NUCLEAR
• Lithuania to hold Referendum on Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant Construction
• UAE Nuclear Power Plant wins Environmental OK
• Nuclear Power Project in Finland delayed again
• Power Machines supplies Turbine Generator for Novovoronezhskaya AES-2
BUSINESS
• Permanent Conference Coverage for Power-Gen Europe 2012
• Thermax Revenue up Nine Percent and Six Percent Increase in Profits
HOT TOPIC HOUR
• July 19 Webinar Concluded that Coal is still the Major Fuel for Electricity
Generation
• “Beneficial Byproducts of Coal Combustion and Gasification” is “Hot Topic
Hour” on July 26, 2012
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
For more information on the Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System, click
on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/energy.html#42ei.
Small Scale Wind Projects Gaining Ground
Large scale wind projects are often in the news and little attention is focused
on the small scale projects which also have a role to play. Information on these
can be found in McIlvaine’s Renewable Energy Projects and Update.
WEPOWER Ecolutions Installs Wind Turbine Near Bay Area BART Transit
WEPOWER Ecolutions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Holding Corp., an
energy service provider and integrator of clean-energy solutions (WEPOWER), is
proud to announce its installation of the WEPOWER Ecolutions Falcon 12kW
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWTs) to 3rd Street Hydroponics, located in
Oakland, CA.
"Our alternative energy solutions are helping all types of businesses go green
and become energy efficent. From traditional to alternative businesses, such as
Sean Taylor's 3rd Street Hydroponics retail shop near the Oakland BART station
at 800 Madison St., consumers are discovering how to produce their own
electricity with wind power," said Kevin Donovan, CEO of WEPOWER Ecolutions Inc.
"With the recent installation of our Falcon 12 kW Vertical Axis Wind Turbine at
Mr. Taylor's retail store near BART, over 12 million travelers per year can see
our clean energy solutions at work."
Beauty Company Leads Way with Largest Wind Project of Any Manufacturer in U.S.
Earth Day will be extra special this year for hair-care manufacturer Zotos
International Inc. as the company celebrates the largest wind project of any
manufacturer in the United States and meets its goal of using 100 percent
renewable energy for its electrical needs.
Zotos' 3.3 MW on-site, wind energy project, which powers its 670,000-square-foot
manufacturing plant in Geneva, is a first in the beauty industry. The project is
comprised of two 1,650 kW wind turbines.
Zotos is a wholly owned subsidiary of global cosmetics leader Shiseido Co. Ltd.
that manufactures hair-care and styling-aid products under the Zotos, JOICO,
ISO, and Senscience brand names, among others.
The company's wind project is expected to meet nearly 60 percent of the Geneva
plant's power needs. To achieve the plant's goal of using 100 percent renewable
energy for its electrical needs, Zotos recently entered into an agreement to
purchase up to 9 million kWh of green energy.
According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), Zotos' project is the
largest wind project of any manufacturer in the U.S. It's also the first wind
project of its kind in Ontario County, NY, and the largest private industrial
wind plan in New York State. The 2009 federal stimulus bill, the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), covered 30 percent of the wind project's
costs.
Mass Megawatts’ Wind-Powered, Water Pump System Generates Repeat Business in
Colorado
Mass Megawatts Wind Power, Inc. announced that it has generated repeat business
for its wind-powered, water pump system in South Park County, CO, at a ranch
owned by Lance Brinkley.
Mr. Brinkley stated that he is "most definitely" happy with the operation of the
first wind powered, water pump system delivered by Mass Megawatts, and plans to
purchase a second, larger-scale unit on his ranch. Both the current and future
water pumps will be used for the delivery of water to cattle and to also create
a small pond on his property.
Efforts to dig the new well hole for the larger wind-powered, water pump are
expected to commence over the next two weeks. The new unit is expected to pump
30 to 50 gallons of water per minute at a cost that is well below other
traditional water pumping systems. The Mass Megawatts' wind-powered unit
provides a low-cost solution for water pump applications commonly needed on
farms, including irrigation and for the delivery of water to livestock in remote
locations that are off the power-grid.
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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