1,890 Large Active Projects At Coal-fired Power Plants in China
Hundreds of large new coal-fired power plants comprising 480 units and 1,410
large environmental retrofit projects are active in China. These projects
have all been identified in the McIlvaine Chinese Utility Plans.
New coal-fired power plants in
next four years |
480 |
Retrofit new FGD to older power
plants |
130 |
Upgrade old FGD systems |
105 |
SCR retrofits |
1,000 |
NOx upgrades |
175 |
Total |
1,890 |
Over the next four years, China plans to install 480 new coal-fired boiler
units. All of these systems will have FGD and DeNOx controls. Most
will be supercritical large boilers of 600 MW. Those in arid areas will use dry
cooling.
China plans to add FGD for 50,560 MW (130 units) of coal-fired units in service,
the upgrade of 42.670 MW of coal-fired units which have FGD facilities but fail
to reliably meet the standard (105 units), and the construction of DeNOx
facilities for 400,000 MW (1,000 units) of coal-fired units in service and
upgrade of 70,000 MW (175 units) of coal-fired units with low NOx
systems.
In addition to these major projects, there are thousands of smaller projects.
There are large numbers of projects to improve automation and efficiency. There
is a focus on better measurement of emissions.
International suppliers are participating in a number of different ways. Those
with superior components are finding that there is a market for their products
even with the extra costs associated with import. Other suppliers are
building factories in China serving not only the Chinese market but other
countries in Asia. Both Alstom and Babcock & Wilcox are extensively involved in
the Chinese market, as are the Japanese power plant equipment suppliers.
A number of the Chinese suppliers of FGD systems have large reference lists,
Chinese precipitator manufacturers out produce their international competitors.
For more information on Chinese Utility Plans, click on:
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Sales of Thermal Treatment Systems to Exceed $1.9 Billion Next Year
Sales of air pollution control systems using thermal treatment will be just
under $2 billion in 2014. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine
Company in its Thermal/Catalytic World Air
Pollution Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
($ Million)
Subject |
2014 |
Catalytic Oxidizer |
447 |
RCO |
78 |
RTO |
943 |
Thermal |
503 |
Total |
1,971 |
These forecasts do not include any stationary engine CO or NOx
reduction systems. No mobile applications are included. The largest
product segment will be the regenerative thermal oxidizer. It will account for
nearly half the 2014 sales.
The regenerative thermal oxidizer was invented by a small company in the 1980s.
This company was sold several times and is presently part of Durr. Suppliers of
regenerative thermal oxidizers have two origins:
·
Suppliers of pollution generating equipment such as dryers and painting systems
(Durr, Eisenmann, and Megtec).
·
Suppliers of other air pollution control equipment such as catalytic oxidizers
and scrubbers (CECO).
The regenerative thermal oxidizer has a higher capital cost than a catalytic
oxidizer or a simple thermal oxidizer but consumes less energy (at least when
there is little fuel value in the contaminant stream). A simple flare is
used when the fuel value is high.
The suppliers of systems purchase key components such as the saddles or other
fill material. They also purchase or manufacture the dampers which are an
important component. System suppliers generally furnish control systems of their
own design with DCS or PLC systems supplied by companies such as Emerson, ABB
and Yokogawa. Normally the continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS)
are not purchased by the RTO customer but directly by the operator. CEMS
systems suppliers include Thermo Fisher, B&W (KVB Enertec) and Horiba.
The installed cost of an RTO system in 2012 U.S. dollars is approximately $30
per cfm. Larger applications range to 100,000 cfm. There are a
number of suppliers of small systems for soil remediation. These units are often
rented for a year or six months rather than sold.
For more information on Thermal/Catalytic World
Air Pollution Markets, click on:
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Decisive Validation Is the Route to Better Decision Making In the Developing
World
It is easy to buy the lowest cost product. It is very challenging to
select the best product with the lowest life cycle cost. The buyer has to
evaluate supplier claims. This is difficult and made even more difficult in
developing countries where there are language problems and lack of experience.
There has been no organized system to help the buyer make the necessary
evaluations. In contrast, the buyer can be assured that the supplier will adhere
to quality management standards in the manufacture of the product through ISO
9000 and other ISO standards.
Decisive Validation
is a process which will make it easy for the buyer to make the best purchasing
choices. It involves a whole system with a decisive classification sequence. At
each step along the way there is a decisive classification of the options and
validation that the supplier product is the right choice.
An example of purchasing options for NOx reduction is displayed in
the McIlvaine Global Decisions Orchard
DeNOx Decisively Classified Options for Coal, Cement,
Incineration.
In addition to the conventional SCR and SNCR, there are three other options
presented including ozone injection, hydrogen peroxide injection and the use of
a catalytic filter. It is shown that the disadvantages of the chemicals are the
operating cost, whereas, the disadvantage of the catalytic filter is lack of
experience.
Each application is unique. In the case of the chemicals, it is necessary
to show that in a specific application the cost of the chemicals will be more
than offset by the lower capital cost. In the case of the catalytic
filter, there is the need to show that there is ample commercial experience to
satisfy the purchaser.
Decisive Validation with independent third party analysis using niche experts is
the way to provide convincing evidence.
An additional challenge is to communicate the validation results to the
purchaser. If his native language is Chinese, then the essence of the
results along with the decisions sequence need to be provided in Chinese. The
Global Decisions Orchard is a mechanism to make these results known.
Free News and Analyses in the Global Decisions Orchard
Validation costs can range widely. However, when the benefits of validation are
compared to those for conventional sales efforts it is clear that validation
should be a major undertaking. One example of the benefits of
validation is the white paper on use of single use vs. reusable surgical gowns.
·
Hospitals were leaning toward reusable gowns with the belief that they were
greener. An extensive analysis showed that the water use and contamination
aspects of reusables outweighed the greenhouse gases resulting from single use
gown manufacture.
For more information on Decisive Validation contact Bob McIlvaine at:
rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com or call 847-784-0012 ext. 112.
Renewable Energy Briefs
RES Americas to Develop and Construct 200 MW Wind Project for Xcel Energy
RES America Developments Inc., a subsidiary of Renewable Energy Systems Americas
Inc. (RES Americas), a leader in the development and construction of wind and
solar projects in North America, is pleased to announce it is working with Xcel
Energy to construct the 200 megawatt (MW) Pleasant Valley Wind Farm. The project
is near Austin, MN, adjacent to the Grand Meadow wind project owned by Xcel
Energy.
RES Americas will continue its role as developer and constructor of Pleasant
Valley. Once the project is complete, RES Americas will transfer ownership of
Pleasant Valley to Xcel Energy, who will own and operate the project. The
development and construction schedules remain on track to be completed by the
end of 2015, with development activities into 2014 and plans to break ground in
mid-2014.
Pleasant Valley Wind Farm is part of 600 megawatts of wind power recently
announced by Xcel Energy in its Upper Midwest service territory. Following a
request for proposals in February, Xcel Energy selected Pleasant Valley and two
other projects to submit to regulators for review. Xcel Energy submitted
the projects to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission and the North Dakota
Public Service Commission for consideration and notified regulators in South
Dakota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Combined, the projects will produce enough energy to serve 180,000 homes and
over the lives of the projects, lower customer costs by $180 million. At the
same time, the projects will reduce carbon emissions by 1.2 million tons each
year in Xcel Energy's Upper Midwest service territory, where the company already
is on track to reduce carbon emissions 30 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.
Gehrlicher Solar America Breaks Ground on 3 MW Solar System on Scituate Landfill
Site
Gehrlicher Solar America Corporation, in cooperation with Main Street Power
Company Inc., an owner and operator of solar assets, MS Solar Solutions Corp.,
an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, project developers
Syncarpha Capital and Brightfields Development, LLC along with the town of
Scituate, MA, celebrated recently with a groundbreaking ceremony of a 3 MWp
solar system.
The Scituate solar array has a peak capacity of 3 MWp and is comprised of 10,560
solar panels and five inverters which together with the 1.5 MWp wind turbine
project commissioned in March 2012, makes of Scituate, MA, the first town in
Commonwealth 100 percent powered by renewable energy.
In early 2013, Gehrlicher Solar America Corp. opened a regional office in
Boston, MA, to support its rapidly expanding New England market. To date,
Gehrlicher Solar America Corp. has completed 16 MWp of projects in Massachusetts
and has additional 62 MWp under construction and development.
Atlas Copco Wins Geothermal Order in Turkey
Atlas Copco won a second major order in Turkey to deliver equipment for two
renewable energy million geothermal power plants. The order value is circa $23
million (MSEK 150).
Çelikler Jeotermal Elektrik Üretim A.Ş., a company active in sectors such as
construction, mining and energy, chose Atlas Copco’s Gas and Process division to
deliver four geothermal power trains with a total gross capacity of 80 MW.
Two of the power trains, which include expander generators, are for expansion of
a power plant project near Pamukören, Turkey, where Atlas Copco is already
supplying equipment. The additional two units, also including expander
generators, will be installed at a new site near the town of Sultanhisar. The
order was booked in the second quarter.
The two plants will generate electricity using the Organic Rankine Cycle, a
promising technology in the growing geothermal energy sector that converts
fluids into vapor. The generator trains will deliver some 500 GWh of baseline
renewable energy per year, enough electricity to power around 61 000 households.
CALMAC Brings Energy Storage to DklT Leveraging First Large Commercial On-Campus
Wind Turbine
CALMAC, a leader in energy storage systems, announced the installation of its
IceBank® energy storage tanks at the Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) in
Ireland. CALMAC’s tanks are being used to successfully store energy from the
first-ever large commercial on-campus wind turbine in the form of ice, which is
then used the next day to cool students and faculty in the historical and
architecturally protected PJ Carroll building. In 2012 alone, the wind turbine
equipped with energy storage was able to produce 1,440 MWh, 79 percent of which
was consumed by the university and the remaining sold back to the grid.
Originally built in the late 1960’s as a cigarette factory, the
191,000-square-foot PJ Carroll Building is considered one of the finest examples
of Miesien architecture in Europe. Approximately 118,000-square-feet of the
facility were remodeled in 2010 as part of a college expansion project, which
included the incorporation of CALMAC’s IceBank® energy storage technology. The
tanks provided the perfect solution for making more efficient use of the
variable supply of wind energy and capitalizing on previously underutilized wind
turbine power generation, while protecting the architectural integrity of the
structure. Today, the “urban turbine” is generating 40 percent of the campus’
electrical energy requirements.
New Energy More Than Doubles Patent Portfolio for Novel Technology Able to
Generate Electricity on Glass Windows
New Energy Technologies, Inc., developer of the world’s first-of-its-kind,
see-through technology capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible
plastics, announced that the company has successfully achieved a total of 21 new
patent filings for protection of its proprietary SolarWindow™ technology, more
than doubling the portfolio in only 12 months.
“Our technology has the capacity to turn ordinary glass windows in America’s 5
million skyscrapers and commercial towers into power generators — a huge
commercial opportunity,” explained Mr. John A. Conklin, President and CEO of New
Energy Technologies, Inc.
Novel to the company’s technology is its ability to generate electricity on
various surfaces when electricity-generating coatings are sprayed or otherwise
applied at room temperature, thus lowering production costs and manufacturing
time.
For more information on Renewable Energy Projects and Update
please visit
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Headlines for the July 19, 2013 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1134 – July 19, 2013
Table of Contents
COAL – US
COAL – WORLD
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CESC pulls out of 1,320 MW South Africa Project, Valu Investments could Replace
CESC
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Konkola Copper Mines could build 300 MW Power Plant in Zambia
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Longannet (Scotland) could continue Operating until 2025
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28 Fuel Supply Agreements signed between NTPC and Coal India
§
World Bank to Limit Financing to Coal-fired Power Projects
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Exxaro/GDF Suez Agreement on 600 MW Power Plant in South Africa
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Vuklehirska 2 in Ukraine to be Reconstructed after Fire
§
Export-Import Bank of US follows World Bank Lead and rejects Financing Proposal
for Coal-fired Project in Vietnam
GAS/OIL – US
GAS/OIL – WORLD
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Inter RAO to expand Termogas Machala (Ecuador) by 170 MW
§
Combined Cycle Gas Turbine in Malženice, Slovakia, to be mothballed by E.ON
§
Calik to build Two Gas Turbine Power Plants in Turkmenistan
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1,950 MW Helwan South in Egypt has World Bank Loan
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Ceylon considering building Two Gas Turbine Power Plants
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China’s Sepco III to build 390 MW Power Plant in Bosnia Herzegovina
§
Namibia to announce 800 MW Kudu Power Plant Bidders Soon
BIOMASS
COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGIES/BOILER EFFICIENCY
BUSINESS
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Peru eases SO2 Standards in Three Cities so Refineries would not have
to close
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MET Licensee wins Multiple Chinese Wet FGD Contracts
§
EnBW plans to shut down Four Power Plant Units in Germany
HOT TOPIC HOUR
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Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
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“New Developments in Air Pollution Control
Technology Part 2” is the Hot Topic Hour on August 1, 2013
In anticipation of the flood of new air and water pollution regulations
affecting fossil-fueled power and industrial boilers as well as cement plants,
the manufacturers of air pollution control systems and equipment have invested
in improving existing systems and developing new technology. Driving this
development was the need to achieve the low emission limits imposed by the
Utility MATS, Boiler MACT and Cement MACT as well as pending CSAPR and proposed
GHG rules, so that fossil-fueled boilers could remain economically viable. This
required new approaches to improve the efficiency and reduce the operating cost
of existing APC systems and reduce the capital and operating costs for new
equipment designed to meet the limits.
The following speakers will describe the latest APC technology currently in use,
undergoing beta testing or under development scheduled for commercialization in
the near future. Discussion will focus on description of the technology,
performance of the systems or equipment, emission reduction achieved and capital
and operating costs.
Bobby I.T. Chen,
Client Program Manager Integrated Emission Solutions, Environmental &
Infrastructure at CBI.
Steven A. Jaasund,
Manager of Geoenergy Products for Lundberg, will present “Wet ESPs for Improved
Particulate Control.” The recently promulgated EPA MACT and MATS rules plus
other impending regulatory mandates will require many industrial and utility
operators to further reduce fine particle and HAP emissions. Wet
electrostatic precipitation (ESP) has been proven to be an excellent, low-energy
approach to this challenge. This presentation will explore the advantages
wet ESP technology in this role.
Jean-Philippe FEVE,
Ph.D., Director of Business Development at Neumann Systems Group, Inc.,
will discuss a process for recycling injected sorbents. The use of Dry Sorbent
Injection (DSI) is gaining popularity for control of SO3, HCl and
even SO2 in utility and industrial applications. However, high
removal rates of SO2 can only be achieved at the cost of very high
injection rates of sorbent, most of which leaves the system without reacting.
Neumann Systems Group will present a new process that allows efficient recycling
of the unreacted and otherwise wasted sorbent, thus enabling up to 60-80 percent
savings in sorbent cost.
Jim Butz,
Vice President of Product Management at Novinda, will present “Full-scale Plant
Trials of Novinda’s Non-carbon Mercury Capture Reagent.”
Novinda’s amended silicates is a non-carbon sorbent for capture of mercury from
coal-fired power plants. A commercial production plant with 20 million pounds
per year production capacity is now providing material for full-scale power
plant field trials and long-term supply contracts. The presentation will focus
on results from trials at power plants burning both eastern bituminous and
western PRB coals and configured with multiple emissions control equipment
options. Superior performance has been observed in power plants with dry
scrubbers as well as with ESP/wet FGD systems.
To register for the August 1 “Hot Topic Hour” on “New
Developments in Air Pollution Control Technology – Part 2” at 10:00
a.m. DST, click on:
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 Tracking System. The
cost is $125.00
for non-subscribers.
Market Intelligence
webinars are free to McIlvaine market report subscribers and are $400.00
for non-subscribers.
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2013 |
|
DATE |
SUBJECT |
|
August 1 |
New Developments in Air
Pollution Control Technology –
Part 2
|
Power |
August 8 |
Improving Power Plant Efficiency
and Power Generation |
Power |
August 15 |
Control and Treatment Technology
for FGD Wastewater |
Power |
August 22 |
Pumps for Power Plant Cooling
Water and Water Treatment
Applications
|
Power |
August 29 |
Status of Carbon Capture and
Storage Programs and Technology |
Power |
Sept. 5
|
Fabric Selection for Particulate
Control
|
Power |
Sept. 19 |
Air Pollution Control for Gas
Turbines |
Power |
Sept. 26 |
Multi-Pollutant Control
Technology
|
Power |
Oct. 3 |
Update on Coal Ash and CCP
Issues and Standards
|
Power |
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President
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rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com
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