$7 Billion Market for Corrosion Resistant Materials in the Flow and Treatment Markets

In 2014, suppliers of corrosion resistant materials including FRP, resin-lined steel and stainless steel will generate revenues of just under $7 billion for applications in flow control and treatment. That is the conclusion reached in the McIlvaine online report, Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Corrosion Resistant Materials Revenues 2014

The biggest segment will be valves.  Stainless and FRP valves are widely used in the chemical industry. Oil and gas applications where H2S is present also require corrosion resistant materials. New supercritical coal-fired boilers require expensive alloy stainless valves for the steam loop.

Power plant FGD is another big application. There is widespread use of FRP, resin lined steel and various alloys including the expensive C-276.

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$7 Billion Market for Air Filters Next Year

Sales of filters to purify indoor air will be just under $7 billion in 2014. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in Air Filtration and Purification World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Air Filter Revenues

($ Millions)

The market will grow at a robust rate due to expansions of commercial and industrial markets in Asia. Equally important is the quality upgrading which is raising the price per filter unit. In the power segment air filters are used to prevent contaminants from damaging the high speed gas turbines. Where the medium efficiency filter was the most popular in the past, gas turbine operators are now choosing high efficiency filters. They realize the additional cost to protect the turbine is more than justified.

There is a similar upgrading in the residential and commercial sectors. Whereas low efficiency filters were the leading choice in the past, medium efficiency filters are now selected.

Air filters are used in most industrial plants. Many of these plants are utilizing exhaust hoods, dust collectors and stacks which discharge the air outside the plant, so the inlet air volume is considerably greater than would be required just for conventional HVAC. All of the incoming air must be filtered.

The highest efficiency requirements are in semiconductor plants. As the line sizes on chips are reduced the potential damage from small particles increases, so efficiency needs keep increasing.

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Renewable Energy Briefs

GE Partners with Downer EDI Limited to Deliver $350 Million Boco Rock Wind Farm in Australia

GE recently announced it had been awarded a contract with its consortium partner, Downer EDI Limited, to supply 67 turbines, build and maintain the $350 million Boco Rock wind farm in New South Wales, Australia. In addition to supplying and commissioning the wind turbine generators, GE will also provide $50 million worth of maintenance services over 10 years.

The wind farm will be located outside of Nimmitabel, in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains region, and is permitted for potential future expansion to 121 turbines. Energy generated by the 67 turbine wind farm would be equivalent to the required energy needs of approximately 40,000 homes in the region.

Continental Wind Partners (CWP), the developer of Boco Rock wind farm, has been working with GE since 2011 since the development phase. Thai-listed Electricity Generating Public Company Limited (EGCO) will take 100 percent ownership of the project from CWP. EGCO will retain CWP to manage the wind farm locally.

GE will supply and commission 58 1.7 MW and nine 1.6 MW wind turbines. The 1.7-100 machine is the second brilliant wind turbine in GE’s portfolio. GE’s brilliant wind turbines harness the power of the Industrial Internet to analyze tens of thousands of data points every second, helping to manage wind’s variability and drive higher output, compared to earlier models.

In addition to the brilliant features, GE’s new 1.7-100 meter wind turbine advances its 1.6-100 wind turbine series by utilizing electrical system upgrades to allow higher energy productions, compared to earlier models.

Abengoa and Shikun & Binui are Selected to Build a 110 MW Concentrating Solar Power Plant

Abengoa and Shikun & Binui, an Israeli based global infrastructure group, have been nominated by the State of Israel as successful bidders in the BOT tender of the Ashalim concentrating solar plant.

Negev Energy, a joint company created by Abengoa and Shikun & Binui will build, own and operate a 110 megawatt (MW) solar trough plant with storage located in the Negev desert. The plant will use the latest technology developed by Abengoa and will be able to store energy in order to produce electricity when required after sunset. Electricity will be purchased by Israel Electricity Corporation over a 25 year power purchase agreement. Construction is expected to start in 2014 in the Ashalim area of the Negev Desert once the power purchase agreement and the project financing are closed.

Solar trough plants collect solar energy using large high precision mirrors that follow the sun and concentrate its energy onto heat absorber tubes that carry a fluid. The temperature of the fluid increases up to 390 degrees Celsius. Using a heat exchanger the thermal energy is then transferred to water in order to generate steam that is used to produce electricity using a turbine. Additionally, part of the thermal energy can be stored in molten salt thermal tanks in order to use it later to generate steam and produce electricity, in this case for approximately four hours. This technology therefore has two key advantages. First, it is a clean source of energy that avoids CO₂ emissions, more than 300,000 tons per year by this particular plant. And secondly, it generates power whenever required and not only when the natural resource, in this case the sun, is available making it one of the few clean dispatchable technologies available today.

Abengoa currently has 743 MW in commercial operation and 910 MW in construction around the world. It is one of the few companies that designs, builds and operates solar plants using both tower and parabolic trough technology.

Dominion Virginia Power Begins Accepting Applications for Solar Purchase Program

Dominion Virginia Power is accepting online applications for the company's Solar Purchase Program, which will help eligible customers, offset the cost of adding solar power to their homes and properties while increasing solar generation in Virginia.

"We have seen a growing interest from customers since we announced this program last year," said Ken Barker, vice president-Customer Solutions and Energy Conservation. "This pilot program, which receives funding through our Dominion Green Power® program, gives our customers who are interested in getting power from the sun another option than net metering that could help them reduce their installation costs."

Participating customers purchase, install and own the solar generation system located on their property, but sell the electricity and the associated solar Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) back to Dominion at a premium rate of 15 cents per kilowatt-hour. Participating customers purchase all of the electricity for their homes or businesses from the company on their current rate schedule. The Dominion Green Power program directly supports these solar projects through the purchase and retirement of the RECs produced.

The Solar Purchase Program is an alternative to Dominion's net metering program in which customers offset their consumption with self-generated renewable energy using a variety of fuel sources. Currently, about 850 customers participate in the "net metering" program.

Energizer Selects Ascent Solar as Solar Panel Provider for Energizer Lantern Donation, Which Will Deliver 13 Million Hours of Solar Light to Families Living in the Dark Around the World

Every day as the sun sets around the world, 1.3 billion people without electricity either live in darkness or expose their families to the hazards of kerosene lighting. This year Energizer and Ascent Solar will be changing that scene for many rural families as they team up to donate 13 million hours of solar light working with the global nonprofit One Million Lights.

Energizer chose Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. to be the solar panel provider for the donated Energizer lanterns and lights because of Ascent's award-winning, flexible thin-film technology and interest in using their transformational technology to benefit families in developing nations. Unlike other traditional solar solutions, Ascent's CIGS technology is both flexible and rugged, ensuring that the lighting system will remain operational even in extreme conditions. Additionally the lightweight attributes of Ascent's state-of-the-art photovoltaic modules enable the entire system to be far more portable than systems that use traditional crystalline-based technology.

The Ascent Solar panels will be used in a 7-LED Energizer® Rechargeable Lantern and a 4-LED Energizer® Rechargeable Area Light. Both solar solutions provide a safe, cost-effective alternative to traditional kerosene lamps for rural families.

Primus Power Partners with the Bonneville Power Administration, Puget Sound Energy and DOE on 50 kW Energy Storage Project

Primus Power, a leader in grid-scale electrical energy storage, is partnering with the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to deliver and support two 250 kW EnergyPods^TM as part of a research and demonstration project under BPA’s Technology Innovation Program. BPA is funding roughly one-third of the total project with shared funding from Puget Sound Energy (PSE), the Energy Storage Program of the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Primus. The consortium is studying the potential installation of grid-scale flow batteries in the electric distribution network of PSE, an investor-owned, regulated utility that provides electric and natural gas service to customers within BPA’s transmission and balancing territory.

Utility districts with a high percentage of wind power are seeking opportunities to enhance the integration of variable renewable resources, such as wind and solar. “BPA has been collaborating with others in the power industry to help integrate wind into our region and stretch the benefits of our hydro system,” said Terry Oliver, BPA’s chief technology innovation officer. “We’re looking for innovative solutions that can help us better integrate renewables and improve how we operate the Northwest power grid.”

Patrick Leslie, emerging technologies program manager at PSE, noted that “this project is an opportunity for us to understand the feasibility and cost-benefit of using grid scale battery arrays as well as to get our ‘hands dirty’, so to speak, with an installation.”

DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will develop models of the storage systems to assess their energy and economic benefits and make recommendations on where they should be placed. After the systems are installed, the PNNL team will also help evaluate their actual performance.

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Headlines for the July 5, 2013 – Utility E-Alert   

UTILITY E-ALERT 

#1132 – July 5, 2013

Table of Contents 

COAL – US

• Start-up and Shut-Down Particulate Controls needed at Bonanza
• Xcel Energy Sherco 1 and 2 will keep Firing Coal
• Lamar Power Plant to Shut Down in Colorado

COAL – WORLD

• 135 MW Fluidized Bed Boiler Expansion in Calaca, Batangas, Philippines
• Alstom to Modernize Belchatow 2 in Poland
• Multiple Coal-fired Projects expected to be pushed forward in India
• DVC completes Financial Closure of 1,320 MW Raghunathpur Power Plant
• Ncondezi Coal focused on Commercial Contracts for 300 MW Tete Power Plant in Mozambique
• India allocates 14 Coal Blocks
• Toyo Ink proposing 2000 MW Song Hau 2 in Vietnam
• Alstom to deliver Equipment for Concepcion CFB Power Plant in the Philippines
• Alstom to Supply Components for 2x660 MW Suratgarh Supercritical Power Project in Rajasthan, India
• Shenzhen Energy to build 700 MW Power Plant in Ghana
• Harbin Power Group to build 275 MW Barapukuria III in Bangladesh

GAS/OIL – WORLD

• METKA to build 1,642 MW Al-Anbar Combined Cycle Power Plant in Iraq
• E.ON to build 60 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant for Marl Chemical Park
• 428 MW Be’er Tuvia Combined Cycle Power Plant in Israel

BIOMASS

• Tilbury will not be converted to Biomass-firing

NUCLEAR

• Pakistan to seek Chinese Help with Nuclear Power Plant

BUSINESS

• Billion Dollars per Year CO₂ Mitigation Market
• Sales of New  Precipitators will exceed $7.6 Billion Next Year

HOT TOPIC HOUR

§  “New Developments in Air Pollution Control Technology” is the subject of the Hot Topic Hour on July 11, 2013

• Integrated Intelligence System
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

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“Measurement and Control of HCl” is the Subject of the Hot Topic Hour on Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. DST

Late in December of 2012, the U.S. EPA released the final “Mercury and Air Toxics Standards” (MATS) rule establishing numerical emission limits for mercury, PM (a surrogate for toxic non-mercury metals), and HCl (a surrogate for all toxic acid gases) for coal- and oil-fired electric generating units (EGUs) larger than 25 MW. All existing EGUs will have three years to comply with the standards although the rule allows states to grant specific units an additional year for equipment installation.

And on December 21, 2012, the EPA finally issued its long delayed “final” rule for reducing toxic air pollution, including mercury, HCl and particulates from industrial boilers, process heaters and certain incinerators. The revised regulations target the largest polluters, approximately 2,300 industrial boilers (especially the 600+ coal-fired industrial boilers) and 106 incinerators in the U.S.  The revised rule also gives operators more time to comply – three years and four years in some cases for both existing and new sources.

A series of three previous Hot Topic Hours have focused on “Mercury Measurement and Control.”  Now we will focus on Measurement and Removal of HCl. The following speakers will help us understand how EGU and industrial boiler operators might meet the challenges of the new limits on HCl emissions, discuss potential control technologies available for operators to achieve compliance and the advantages and disadvantages of the various control technologies as well as criteria for selecting specific technologies – existing facility configuration, existing control equipment installed, fuel type and others.

Pat Mongoven, Business Development Manager – FGT at Mississippi Lime, will present “Control of HCl using Dry Sorbent Injection.” Mississippi Lime has conducted several full-scale demonstrations to reduce HCl below the levels required by MATS.  Mississippi Lime used both its Flue Gas Treatment (FGT) grade hydrated lime and its new High Reactivity Hydrate (HR) grade hydrated lime in these evaluations. The presentation will focus on the results of these demonstrations.

Jarret McClendon, Applications Engineer at Natronx, will discuss the use of trona to remove HCl. Trona has the ability to not only reduce SO₂ emissions but HCl emissions as well. It has been seen at trials that trona can reduce as much as 98 percent of HCl in the field. This technology has been used on both large coal-fired boilers and smaller industrial boilers. Contributors to this efficiency of removal are particle size, injection temperature, and milling of sorbent.

Dan Kietzer, Business Development Manager at Sick Maihak, Inc Process Automation, will discuss the measurement of HCl in stack gas. HCl monitoring has been done around the world for over 25 years, but new requirements in the MATs and PC MACT rule have brought this measurement to the forefront in the US. This presentation will discuss various techniques for the continuous measurement of HCl and also the most recent updates on the new Performance Specification 18.

Michael Atwell, Market Development Manager at Solvay Chemicals, will be discussing the use of trona and sodium bicarbonate for HCl control particularly in the presence of SO₂. The presentation will focus on how DSI systems can be optimized with regard to injection points, milling and sorbent selection.

Jon Norman, Sales & Technology Manager for Dry Sorbent Injection at United Conveyor Corporation, will present results of HCl removal tests using Dry Sorbent Injection (DSI) on both PRB and bituminous coals. Numerous tests have been conducted using hydrated lime, unmilled trona, milled trona, and sodium bicarbonate at different injection locations. The results will be summarized such that the optimum configuration can be understood for each coal type and sorbent.

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